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Poppa's New Pants Lesson PlanPoppa's New Pants Lesson Plan
Publisher
Orange County Department of Education
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Grade
3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
Instructional Strategies
Direct Instruction
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Year
2005
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Fine Print: Educational Use
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Poppa's New Pants

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Angela Shelf Medearis' Poppa's New Pants provides third graders with an opportunity to stitch together their own narrative filled with sensory details. After reading the story and noting the sensory and concrete details in the tale that reveal compassion and courtesy, individuals craft a personal narrative in their journals about a time they showed compassion or courtesy.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

compassion, caring, character traits, character analysis, manners, character building, personal narratives, personal narrative writing, concrete details, sensory details, literary analysis

Additional Tags

compassion, courtesy, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide writers with the rubric when assigning the narrative

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires copies of Angela Shelf Medearis' Poppa's New Pants 
  • Illustrated copies of the book are available for purchase; a copy of the text of the story is available online
  • Two copies of the "Pattern for Pants" handout are also required for each participant

Pros

  • Includes a rubric for the narratives

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.3 W.3.3.a

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