Lesson 2 - Arthur Meets the President
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
* identify vocabulary words
* make a prediction of the story
* identify story elements (Title, Author, Setting, Characters, Problem, Events One, Two and Three and Solution) by using a story map
Materials:
Book : Author Meets The President by Marc Brown
Story Map
Sentence Strips
Chart Paper
Activities:
1. Introduce vocabulary (President, Washington, D.C., capital, trip, secretary, announce, invited, court, justice, law, democrat, republican, vote, cabinet, and history.
2. Students will go online to The Dictionary Plus to find synonyms and antonyms for their vocabulary words.
3. Students will preview and make a prediction about the story. As you read the story have students predict what each animal will say and then compare it with the story.
4. Read Arthur Meets The President to the class and ask comprehension questions as you go along. (example: Who is Mr. Ratburn? What does the winner win?)
5. Using sentence strips, discuss the events in the story and the students will put them in sequential order.
6. Using a chart paper, discuss the story elements that are needed for their story map.
7. Students will complete a story map:
Title:
Author:
Setting:
Characters:
Problem:
Events: One, Two and Three
Solution:
Evaluation:
Students will put the events
of the story in sequential order.
Students completed story map.
Home Learning:
Students will go online to
Puzzle maker
to
create a crossword puzzle with their vocabulary words. (save to a disk and bring
to school to print)
Students will
go online to do a
comprehension
activity, print out the worksheet and complete it.