Lesson

Curriculum Standard:Fourth grade
3 The students will express, communicate, evaluate, or exchange ideas
effectively.
c. The students will compose a narrative text relating an event with a
clear beginning, middle,
and end. (DOK3)
1. Stories and retellings
2. Narrative poems
3. Power point presentations
Big Ideas: Stories involve settings, problems, actions, consequences, and emotions.

Preparation:
1.Introduce the idea of story writing
2.Ask the students what are some of their favorite stories.
3.Tell the students that “My visit to the aquarium” is a story that involves ,
problems, actions, consequences, and emotions.
4.Tell the students that they are going to brainstorm in groups to come up with
their own story.
5.The students make out a list of topics from their brainstorming.
6.Discuss why one topic would be better than another.
7.Discuss that stories involve settings, problems, actions, consequences, and
emotions.
8.Ask the groups “when you were brainstorming did you come up with a setting,
problem, action, consequences, and emotions?”
9.Tell the group to write a simple paragraph on their topic that they brainstormed
using each of the elements. (settings, problems, actions, consequences, and
emotions)

Guidance:
1.Students are placed into work groups
2.Students brainstorm about a story topic related to the subject.
3.Students write a simple paragraph about their subject.
4.The teacher walks around, providing aid and feedback with the students writing.

Application:
1.The students will know how to form a beginning, middle and end to their story.