Lesson: Frame as Story Teller

Strand A: Literacy Connections and Applications

A2. Digital Media Literacy

A2.4 Forms, Conventions and Techniques

demonstrate an understanding of the forms, conventions, and techniques of digital and media texts, and apply this understanding when analyzing texts

A2.5 Media, Audience, and Production

demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between the form, message, and context of a text, the audience, and the creator

Strand C: Composition (Understanding and Responding to Texts)

C1 Knowledge About Texts

C1.3 Text Patterns and Features

Grade 1: identify some text patterns, such as sequencing and chronological order, and text features, including illustrations, symbols, and titles, associated with various text forms, and explain how they help readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning

Grade 2: identify some text patterns, such as chronological order and journal entry, and text features, including table of contents, charts, and icons, associated with various text forms, and explain how they help readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning

Grade 3: identify some text patterns, such as order of importance and cause and effect, and text features, such as headings and an index, associated with various text forms, and explain how they help readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning

C1.4 Visual Elements of Texts

Grade 1: demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between simple illustrations, images, and graphics and the text

Grade 2: identify ways in which images, graphics, and visual design create, communicate, and contribute to meaning in a variety of texts

Grade 3: describe ways in which images, graphics, and visual design are used in a given text, and demonstrate an understanding of their purpose and connection to the content of the text

C1.6 Point of View

Grade 1: identify the narrator’s point of view in a variety of texts, and suggest an alternative point of view to tell the story

Grade 2:  identify the narrator’s point of view, including first person or third person, in simple texts, and suggest an alternative point of view to tell the story

Grade 3: identify the narrator’s point of view, including first person or third person, in a variety of texts, and suggest alternative points of view

C2 Comprehension Strategies

C2.4 Monitoring of Understanding: Ongoing Comprehension Check

Grades 1-2: use strategies such as rereading, visualizing, and asking questions, to monitor their understanding of simple texts

Grade 3: use strategies such as rereading, visualizing, and asking questions, to monitor and confirm their understanding of various texts

C2.5 Monitoring of Understanding: Making Connections

Grades 1-2:  identify connections between ideas expressed in simple texts and their knowledges and lived experiences, the ideas in other familiar texts, and the world around them

Grade 3:  identify connections between ideas expressed in texts and their knowledges and lived experiences, the ideas in other texts, and the world around them

C2.7 Reflecting on Learning

Grade 1:  identify strategies, such as activating prior knowledge and visualizing, that have helped them comprehend texts

Grade 2:  identify strategies, such as rereading, visualizing, and asking questions, that have helped them comprehend various texts

Grade 3: describe how strategies, such as visualizing, making predictions, and connecting to their experiences, have helped them comprehend various texts

C3 Critical Thinking in Literacy

C3.1 Literary Devices

Grade 1:  identify simple literacy devices, including rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, and describe how they help communicate meaning

Grade 2:  identify simple literary devices, including consonance and simile, and describe how they help communicate meaning

Grade 3:  identify literary devices, including metaphor and assonance, and describe how they help communicate meaning

C3.2 Making Inferences

Grade 1:  make simple inferences, using stated and implied information and ideas, to understand simple texts

Grade 2: make simple inferences using stated and implied information and ideas to understand simple texts

Grade 3: make inferences using stated and implied information and ideas to understand texts

C3.5 Perspectives within Texts

Grade 1:  identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in a text, and describe how these perspectives could influence an audience

Grade 2:  identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in a text, providing evidence, and describe how these perspectives could influence an audience

Grade 3:  identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in texts, providing evidence, and explain how these perspectives could influence an audience

C3.8 Reflecting on Learning

Grade 1:  identify thinking skills that helped them understand simple texts

Grade 2: identify thinking skills that have helped them analyze and better understand simple texts

Grade 3: identify thinking skills that have helped them analyze and better understand various texts