Title – The Incredible Yuma Bat and Clapper Rail – Literary Response

By – Brenda E. Wilson

Primary Subject – Science

Secondary Subjects – Language Arts

Grade Level – 6

Period of Time: One-half month unit of study

Purpose: to introduce to the students the wonderful world of Bats and Clapper Rails.

Language Arts Standards:

Concept 5: Literary Response

Literary response is the writer’s reaction to a literary selection. The response includes the writer’s interpretation, analysis, opinion, and/or feelings about the piece of literature and selected elements within it.

PO 1. Write a response to literature that:

a. presents several clear ideas

b. supports inferences and conclusions with examples from the text, personal experience, references to other works, or reference to non-print media

c. relates own ideas to supporting details in a clear and logical manner

Other Subjects that will be integrated: Media Technology

Objective: C The students will be able to write a book report on the books they have read in the unit on bats and clapper rails.

Anticipatory Set: They then will relate on the authors who wrote these books as fellow researchers and collaborators from the sources they got on the world wide web sites.

The teacher will review the

How to Write Book

so that the students will have learned what writing is all about. Then the teacher will assign

group five

to go find books by the authors of

Stellaluna

and

The Clapper Rail

to see if they have written other books and then with the other books collected they will all write a book report of the book they each read . This will also be a part of the final day contest for awards and honors granted the best readers.

Accommodations: There will be the same assignments in Braille, and Sign Language charts.

* Abbreviations for

Cognitive = C, Assistive = A, Psychomotor = P

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