Literacy Model

Component 2: Text Structure (Literary Elements and Nonfiction Text Features)

Component 1

Component 2

Component 3

Component 4

Component 5

specific tasks students will be able to do

concepts, skills, strategies

methods for teaching the content

Identify the literary elements (character, setting, plot, point of view, theme) in a given work of fiction or narrative nonfiction

• Identify the characters in a story new

• Be aware of the ways to know a character--appearance, thoughts and conversation, actions

• Identify the setting of a story--its location in place and time new

• Summarize the plot of a story new

• Identify the conflict in a story

• Identify the point of view from which a story is told

• Understand the idea that story has a theme
   

• Identify the text features of a work of expository nonfiction (headings, fonts, captions and graphics)

Character web

Modeling

Paired sharing

Compare/contrast

Oral reading to large group

Student independent reading

Story map

Large group discussion

Questioning strategies--factual/literal interpretive, evaluative

Pair/share

General character lesson (1998)

Character in a fiction series lesson (2000)

General setting lesson (1998)

"Read Around the World" setting lesson (1998)

Prairie Setting lesson (1999)

General plot lesson (1998)

Combined character, setting plot lesson (2000)

General point of view lesson (2000)

Using one book point of view lesson (1998)

From a pet's point of view lesson (1999)

General theme lesson (1998)

Reading Nonfiction Part 1 lesson (2005)