Teaching for Understanding in Fiction

1. Teaching For Understanding In Fiction Presented by Angela Maiers Angelamaiers.com Omaha Public Schools January 13, 2009

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3. A Hedge Hog School Core Competencies Signature Practices Reflect Mission

4. WHAT HOW Assessing the Mission

5. Code Breaker Text User 21st Century Expectations Meaning Maker Text Critic

7. Goals: • Reading vs. Understanding • Exploring Plot/ Lit Elements • Planning for Mini Lessons • Fiction 2.0

8. Fiction is…

9. All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, is lying, as in magic preservation in the pages of a book! ~William Shakespeare~

10. What makes a Story Good?

11. Fiction is…

12. Plot • Characterization • Setting • Point of View • Climax • Resolution • Conclusion • Theme

13. Understanding of Plot Structure • Variations of Plot- Circular, Parallel, etc… • Identify Problem Resolution, Conclusion • Elements of Plot: Characterization, Setting, Theme • Literary Devices: Foreshadow, flashback, Satire, Irony • Vocabulary Challenges • Language Aspects: Synonyms, Homonyms, Antonyms • Mood • Tone • Character Analysis: emotion, intentions, qualities, actions • Feelings and Traits • Writers Craft • Form, Structure, Genre • Characteristics of Language: rhyme, rhythm, repetition • Figurative Language • Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole • Identify theme and moral of text • Authors message, purpose, intention • AND SO ON…. • AND SO ON…. • AND SO ON…

14. Put the following elements of plot in order by the way they appear in a story: Resolution, Theme, Climax, Conclusion, Falling Action, Introduction, Rising Action, Problem, Mood • What significant information does a reader learn in the introduction of a story, and how does this influence their reading during the rest of the text? • How would you define conflict to your students in a way they could identify it in a story? • Describe the differences between the rising and falling action? • How does a reader identify the climax of the story so that it is not confused with other story events? • How is point of view defined fiction text and what is the significance of it? 7. Define theme and name two ways that writers of fiction leave clues to the theme of the story.

15. Big Ideas in Fiction

16. BIG IDEA… the part of a book, magazine, argument, film, poem, text, etc… that articulates the authors message or ideas about the underlying topic or theme which may or may not be explicitly stated.

18. Inferring Imaging Questioning Monitoring Synthesizing Using Schema Det. Importance

19. “Book” Story “Life” Story (THEME) Fiction = Stories of Life

21. Considering Genre...

22. Understanding Literary Elements • Plot • Characterization • Setting • Point of View • Climax • Resolution • Conclusion • Theme

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41. Plot Structure Plot is the literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows the a causal arrangement of events and actions within a story.

42. 1 3 Plot: Introduction: Problem: (Issue, desire, focused interest or character flaw that impacts the main character) * (this will sometimes include elements from the rising action and the climax; when students understand this framework well, then move them to differentiate between rising action and climax) Resolution: (this may sometimes appear on the last page with the conclusion, but it is more common to be before; remember…this is what has transitioned with the problem) Conclusion: (remember – this is the last physical thing you visually available at the end of the text) Characters: 2 4 Setting: 5 8 7 6

43. Role Cards for Retelling

44. Teaching FICTION • Plot • Characterization • Conflict • Theme

45. Plot Structure Plot is the literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows the a causal arrangement of events and actions within a story.

50. Chronological order Flashback In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition Types of Plots Plots can be told in… Circular Episodic