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

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 begin to understand or problem in a story.		Children will listen to a teacher read a story. They will then make character puppets and a storyboard background.		Children will use their own words to retell the story using their storyboard.	storyboard characters puppets retell setting
2. Draw logical conclusions about what will happen next or how things might have turned out differently in a story.	Student will predict a different outcome to a story.		Children will listen to a teacher read a story and brainstorm ideas about "what could happen next" at the end of the story. (Teacher is scribe.) Resources: (see library for resources) Book lists Nursery rhymes Thematic literature: --folk tales --snow --season --ocean --body --holiday --apples --pumpkins --mammals --me --plants --eggs/farm/ducks --senses Different versions of each story		Children will draw a picture of their own story ending.	brainstorm end next make sense predict
4. Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.	Students will begin to be able to identify fiction and non-fiction stories and books.		Children will listen to different books on same topic (i.e., pigs: Three Little Pigs, Eyewitness Pigs) Resources: Folk tale --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		In a group discussion, children will decide what really could happen and what is using imagination (fact vs. fiction).	fiction nonfiction fact real imaginary true