Content Standard: B. Literature and Culture
Students will use reading, listening, and viewing strategies to experience, understand, and appreciate literature and culture.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)		Suggested Performance Activities (Relating to Assessments)		Suggested Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Understand the basic plot of simple stories.	Students will show progress in understanding of the main idea or problem of a story.		Students will listen to a teacher read a story. They will then make character puppets and a story board background.		Students will use their own words to retell the story using their story board.	story board characters puppets retell
2. Draw logical conclusions about what will happen next or how things might have turned out differently in a story.	Students will predict and retell a different outcome.		Students will listen to a teacher read a story and brainstorm ideas about "what could happen next" at the end of the story. Resources: (see library for resources) Book lists Nursery rhymes Thematic literature: --folk tales --snow --season --pond --holidays --trees --apples --pumpkins --animals --me --plants		Students will draw a picture and write a sentence to tell a new ending to a story.	brainstorm end next make sense
4. Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.	Students will identify fiction and non-fiction books/stories.		Students will listen to different books on same topic, one fiction, one non-fiction (i.e., pigs: Three Little Pigs, Eyewitness Pigs) Resources: Folk tales --Three Little Pigs vs. --The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (wolf's version) --Goldilocks --Gingerbread Man --Three Billy Goats Gruff --Red Riding Hood --Red Hen --The Mitten --Young Abraham Lincoln --Young George Washington --Young Squanto --Young Pocahontas Young Martin Luther King Lion Dancer --Sarah Morton's Day --Samuel Eaton's Day		In a group discussion, students will decide what really could happen and what is using imagination (fact vs. fiction). Student articulates a personal connection to material used and explains why he/she feels that way through drawings, oral language and written work. Story boards Story maps. Reenactment Puppetry Retelling Early MAP Task: Character Bookmark Make a bookmark and write a piece justifying why the book is fact or fiction	fiction nonfiction fact real imaginary