![]() ![]() Thunder Cake by Patricia Polaccoīrief Summary: A young girl and her grandmother bake a cake to ease the girl’s mind about the approaching storm.Ĭlick here to see Thunder Cake on Amazon. Emmanuel’s Dream by Laurie Ann Thompsonīrief Summary: Based on a true story, this read aloud tells the story of a young Emmanuel, born with a deformed leg who would later become a hero for his country.Ĭlick here to see Emmanuel’s Dream on Amazon. Read Alouds for Identifying, Describing, and Analyzing Story Elements The Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsburgīrief Summary: A cold-hearted man is gifted with magic figs which make his dreams come true, but the real drama happens when his dog eats one of the figs.Ĭlick here to see The Sweetest Fig on Amazon. The graphic organizers are available for purchase in my Story Elements unit which you can see by clicking here. The graphic organizers are optional but really help focus the lesson and help the students organize their thoughts. For more information about the story, check out the Amazon listing by clicking the title.Īmazon Affiliate links are included if you wish to purchase the books listed in this post through the links provided.īefore we dive into the read alouds, you will notice that in each image, the read aloud is paired with a suggested graphic organizer. In an effort to keep the post short, I am only including a very brief summary of each story. ![]() However, I wanted to include a lot of choices to cover the depth of story elements required in 4th and 5th grade. There are so many great story element mentor texts that it was even difficult to narrow down to this list. Starting the year with Artist Trading Cards.When I sat down to compile my favorite read alouds for teaching story elements, my list just grew and grew.Formative Feedback for Student Summaries.The Challenges and Delights of Teaching Theme. ![]() Start the School Year with a Focus on Dialogue.What books do you like to use to teach summarizing stories? For more on summarizing, check out my book, Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling. You can find more activities for summarizing stories in this unit, Summarizing Stories, from TeachersPayTeachers. (I wrote an entire set of activities for this book-you can find it here.) Do they represent the entire book? Would it be better to rewrite a summary of the text as a whole? These questions help readers to think deeply about how a story unfolds, and how to represent these plot complications in a summary. Then, at the end of the book, look at the chunk summaries all together. Try writing a summary of each chapter with students. Written like a fairy tale, this story is a perfect length for chunk summarizing, or summarizing bits of a story at a time. I read it aloud to campers at bedtime during one of my three summers as a camp was the perfect length to read a chapter each night. The King's Equal by Katherine Paterson is one of the first "magic books" that I shared with groups of children. Many students identify so closely with the events in the book that they want to include every detail in a summary. How can we translate the character's words into sentences? This book is also helpful to use to review the difference between summarizing and retelling. This is a good book to read with students who are struggling with how to represent dialogue in a summary. ![]() However, many readers can identify with the main character's desire to keep a wild bird as a pet. Mole and the Baby Bird by Marjorie Newman looks as if it is meant for a very young reader. This is definitely a book that you will love to have on your bookshelf. This book really shows the flatness of a summary versus a narrative as a finished summary of this book includes the main events, but carries none of the suspense and excitement of the original. Like Can I Play Too?, the pictures carry a great deal of weight in the story. I use it for so many things-personal narratives, character emotions, point of view, and summarizing. Shortcut by Donald Crews is one book that I would not be able to teach without. Would it be best to put the theme at the beginning? Or at the end? With older students, this book is a great way to introduce theme and try to weave a theme into a summary. Instead, they need to translate what happens on the page into new words. The combination of dialogue and pictures removes all temptation for kids to copy events from the text. There is a problem presented in the story, an attempted solution that doesn't work at all (kids love this page), and a happy ending. Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems is fun for readers of all ages. ![]()
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