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Discussing and Identifying Themes: What Makes a Good Children’s Book? Lesson PlanDiscussing and Identifying Themes: What Makes a Good Children’s Book? Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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Grade
7th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2014
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Discussing and Identifying Themes: What Makes a Good Children’s Book?

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This Discussing and Identifying Themes: What Makes a Good Children’s Book? lesson plan also includes:
  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 3 (.pdf)
  • Grade 7 ELA Module 3 Updates: June 2015 (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 3, Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Grade 7 ELA Module 3, Unit 3, Lesson 2 (.html)
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Working in small groups, scholars look closely at a children's book to evaluate narrative techniques. Next, they complete a Children's Book Scavenger Hunt worksheet to analyze the literary elements of their selected stories. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

personal narratives, personal narrative writing, fictional narratives, frederick douglass, children's literature, literary themes, literary elements

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • List popular children's stories or movies and ask learners to identify their themes

Classroom Considerations

  • Lesson two from the 12-part Grade 7 ELA Module 3, Unit 3 series
  • Order matters
  • Requires 10–15 children's books, ideally one book for every two students

Pros

  • Offers strategies for lesson differentiation 
  • Includes sentence stems to encourage productive small-group discussions

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.7.3.a W.7.3.b W.7.3.c W.7.3.d W.7.3.e L.7.1.a L.7.1.b

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