Making Predictions

School of Education
Lesson Plan Format


Grade Third grade



Title of Lesson: After “Happily Ever After,” what comes next?

Objectives:
Students will be able to:
• Formulate and defend their own opinion about what happens after the story ends.

GPS Standards:
ELA3R3: The student will use a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student
q.) Formulates and defends an opinion about the text.

Preparation: To prepare for the lesson, the class will already be familiar with other comprehension strategies and would have already done a similar lesson.

Materials:
• The Loathsome Dragon by David Wiesner

Procedures:
Introduction: As a hook, I will bring in a castle set, complete with a knight and a dragon. I will ask the class what they think the lesson is about. Then, I will reveal the book to the students.
Activities: I will read the book to the class. As I am reading, I will be asking questions about what they think comes next in the story and asking why the student believes that. Ask the students what they believe happens at the end of the story. Does the princess get married? What happens to the queen now that she is a frog? They will write their answer in their journals with three reasons for why they have come to that conclusion.
Closing: Have them read their journal entry to the class and see if their classmates agree or disagree with their reasoning for what happens after the story ends.

Assessment: For our informal assessment, we will assess the students on fluency as they read aloud. For out formal assessment, we will assess the students’ ability to accurately formulate an opinion about what happens next, and have enough evidence to support their opinion.

Modification/Enrichment: For the students who finish early, they will be asked to take out their library book and read silently, or read over their work and see if there are any grammatical errors. For students who are having difficulty grasping the concept of defending their opinion, we will assist them by asking them questions and having them tell us why they think that. We will point out that the assignment is the exact same thing that we are doing with them.