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 Printable Version for your convenience!
Title - Literary Elements Advance Organizer
By - Kimberly Steele
Primary Subject - Language Arts
Grade Level - 4-8
Duration: 20 minutes
Description: This is an advance organizer I created for a unit on literary elements
Goals: The goal is to familiarize students with the correct terminology of literary elements before starting the unit.
Objective(s): The students will become familiar with literary elements, drawing on previous experience and knowledge (schema) while looking at and discussing an advance organizer.
Materials:
- Literary Elements Advance Organizer at http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/literary_elements/literary_elements.pdf
(Transparency and/or a copy for each student)
- Overhead projector
- Vis-à-Vis pens
Procedure:
- Show the students the transparency of the Literary Elements Advance Organizer.
- Discuss each literary element, encouraging participation from the class -- draw on their prior knowledge and experience.
- Characters
- Main character(s)
- Minor characters
- Setting
- When
- Where
- Conflict
- Person vs. person
- Person vs. nature
- Person vs. society
- Person vs. self
- Theme
- Central idea or message
- Possibly a lesson or moral
- Sounds like a fortune cookie message
- Keep a copy of the Literary Elements Organizer visible in the classroom and refer it to throughout the unit.
Assessment: The assessment will not come until the end of the unit when students are asked to identify the literary elements of a piece of literature.
Useful Internet Resources:
Literary Web made with Inspiration software at Synapse Adaptive
(I chose this to share this site rather than the official Inspiration site because the page loads faster and in a larger screen.)
www.synapse-ada.com/inspiration/diagrams/theory/literary.htm
Advance Organizers at ABC (Always Be Scientific)
www.umit.maine.edu/~herman_weller/advorg.html
Literary Terms: Elements of Fiction: Components of Literature at Once Upon a Time
nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00mevancamp/litterms.html
Glossary of Literary Terms at Bedford/St. Martin's Literature and Linguistics site
www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm
A Glossary of Literary Terms at Oregon Department of Education
www.ode.state.or.us/tls/english/reading/resources/readingglossary.pdf
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