Saturday, April 5, 2008

Craft Lesson 8

Resource Material:

Holm, Jennifer and Matthew Holm. Babymouse: Our Hero. New York: Random House, 2005.

Target Audience:

Fourth Grade

Discussion/ How to Teach It:

The ability to multi-task, or perform two or more tasks at the same time, is important in American culture. Rare is the opportunity to devote all of one's attention to a solitary endeavor. Because Babymouse: Our Hero is a graphic novel, students must multi-task in their reading in order to successfully interpret the illustrations, narration and dialog simultaneously. This "literary multi-tasking" is important to develop because it trains students to integrate information from multiple sources into a single idea. Students will independently read Babymouse: Our Hero. To assess comprehension of the plot, students will group-write a paraphrase of one part of the story, such as missing the bus, math class, or dodge ball, and then act out their paraphrase for the rest of the class.

4th Grade Standards Taught:

1) paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform and organize ideas, 2) use his/her own knowledge and experience to comprehend, 3) interpret text ideas through such varied means as journal writing, discussion, enactment and media, 4) determine a text's main ideas and how those ideas are supported by details, 5) draw on experiences to bring meaning to words in context such as interpreting figurative language and multiple-meaning words

1 comment:

Lacee E. Jones said...

Good job on this! I would never have thought of all this for Babymouse