Tall+Tales+Unit;+Lesson+3

**Anticipatory Set**
====1. We will have our introductory period of reviewing the group guidelines as well as Johnny Appleseed from last week. We will take the five minutes to talk about the weekend and any other issues that the students want to talk about.==== ====2. I will inform the students that we will start out today with reading “John Henry”, another American Tall tale. We will also be starting to write our own tall tales. We will also be filling out a word wall to show the vocabulary we have learned already with tall tales.====

**Before Reading**
====1. Prefacing the book with the background knowledge that we know what a tall tale already entails, and knowing that it is another American tall tale, we will make some connections and predictions about what elements may be involved in the story.====

After we read the book, I will ask the student open ended questions about the book such as: what did you notice about the story? What did you notice about the illustrations?
====I will then lead the students to questions that focus more on the subject of tall tales. I will ask the students for the similarities and differences between the two stories. I will explain to the children that they should start making connections between the stories and start getting ideas for their own tall tale stories.====

//Extending//
====For our activity for today, the students and I will be filling out a graphic organizer to help us get started on the tall tales we will be writing ourselves. I will stress the importance of developing all of the story elements, and have a box for them all. If the students finish with this early they can start writing their stories.====

**Closure**
====I will emphasize that our vocabulary is expanding from the tall tales lessons, along with introducing the next lesson. We will be writing our stories next week, so I will get the students geared up for that.====

**Assessment**
====I will be looking at the creativeness of the words on the word wall as well as the relevance. I will be looking for the students to have a well developed character in their stories, as well as a sense of plot and setting in the graphic organizer.====