The students have started delving into the depths of effective storytelling and how to captivate an audience when reading aloud. Students are exploring different activities based around books by the renowned children’s author, Robert Munsch. There will be reader’s theatre scripts, listening activities and assessments related to identifying the main idea and examples from the text to support their BIG IDEA claim.
Both the grade 2 and 3 students have been given the opportunity to peruse several books by this author, and have chosen a book that they feel a connection to or has sparked their interest level.
GRADE 2
The final summative project for the Grade 2’s will be a Book Talk about the Robert Munsch book that they have chosen. In their Book Talk they will talk about plot, characters, setting etc. and will recommend the book to someone in the class with reasons. A full rubric is located on the last page of their booklet. Parents can go over it with their child when the booklet comes home. Robert Munsch Book Talk presentations which will take place the week of March 7th, exact dates to be given to students later this week.
GRADE 3
Throughout the course of this unit, students in Grade 3 will rehearse their chosen book at home with parents and at school with peers, practice their oral fluency skills as well as hone their presentation skills. The unit will wrap up with each student getting up before the class dressed as one of the characters from their book selection and reading the story to the class. The homework duotangs will not be sent home next week or the week after that. Instead, the students should use the next two weeks to prepare for their Robert Munsch book presentations which will take place the week of March 7th, exact dates to be given to students later this week. The students were each given a booklet of stapled activity sheets for this project. This booklet is to go home and come back to school every day starting this weekend until the presentation date. Parents are asked to fill in the Practice Log at the back of this booklet on a regular basis to indicate that their child has been practicing the reading of his/her chosen book! Any work that is not completed in the time given in class at school during the day should be finished at home. You can also help your child with the planning of his/her costume and prop ideas to enhance the presentation. Here is the rubric for the presentation. A hard copy is also in your child’s booklet.
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