Language Arts - Grade 3 TEKS 3.9H - Producing Summaries of Text Selections by Tiffany Elkins

Category:  Language Arts
Grade Level:  3rd Grade
Objective: 

Language Arts TEKS 3.9H  Reading/comprehension.
The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend selections read aloud and selections read independently.  The student is expected to: produce summaries of text selections.

Music TEKS 3.2A  Creative expression/performance.
The student performs a varied repertoire of music.  The student is expected to: sing or play a classroom instrument independently or in groups.

Behavioral Objective:
The student will produce a summary of The Rainbow Fish.

Materials: 
Whiteboard, markers, The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
                                 North-South books, copyright 1992, New York
                                 ISBN 1-55858-009-3

Activities/Strategies: 
Introduce the lesson by having the students make predictions about the story's plot.  Read The Rainbow Fish to the children at the group rug.  Ask the students to give summaries about the story.  Then, ask the students to summarize the story in one word.  Write these words on the whiteboard.  For example: (1) fish, (2) sharing, (3) co-operative.

Process:

• Say the words as a class.

• Divide class into three sections.  Assign a different word to each group.

• Say the words in the three groups starting with one syllable words.  Layer all three words.

• Add body percussion.

• Drop words, body percussion alone.

High	co-operative	clap
Middle	sharing	pat
Low	fish	stomp

Evaluation: 
Observe the students to see if all of the children produced accurate summaries of the story and can identify which of the three parts are high, middle, and low.