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Grade: Grade 3
Subject: English Language Arts
Created by:
Jendi Solka
Lesson Length: 2 hours
Keywords/Tags: reading, writing, the boy who cried wolf
Lesson Description: This lesson is intended to use the student's reading and writing skills to identify the main idea of the story, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students are required to read and reread the story to learn new vocabulary, discuss details and ideas within the story, and relate the main idea of the story to real life.
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Common Core Standards Covered with This Lesson
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
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Lesson Content: Reading
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| Instructions: Please read the following reading passage as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the passage if needed. |
The Boy Who Cried Wolf!
There was once a boy who lived in a village up in the mountains. His family owned many sheep. The boy had a job, and that job was to watch the sheep. If a wolf came near, he needed to call for help. His sheep stayed on a hill near the village where he watched them every day.
One day, he thought of a trick he could play on the people who lived in the village. He was bored, so he thought this would be a way to have fun. He ran toward the village crying out loudly for help.
He shouted, "Wolf! Wolf! Come and help! The wolves are at my lambs! The wolves are trying to eat them!"
There were many villagers in the town. They heard him crying and thought that they had to help. So, the kind villagers left their work and ran to the field to help him. They would try to help him chase away the wolves and protect his lambs. However, when the villagers got there, the boy laughed at them. There was no wolf there. He just wanted to watch them come running! He thought it was funny.
Then another day the boy tried the same trick. Once again, the villagers came running to help him out, and once again the boy laughed at them.
Then, one day, a wolf really did come and it started chasing the lambs. In great fright, the boy ran for help. "Wolf! Wolf!" he screamed. "There is a wolf! Help! Please! Help! Please!”
All the villagers heard him, but this time they did not come. They thought he was pulling another mean trick. They had learned their lesson and did not need to be laughed at again. So, no one paid attention to him and the shepherd-boy lost all his sheep –they all ran away.
When people in the village found out what had happened, they were sorry, but they told the boy it was his fault. That is the kind of thing that happens to people who lie. Even when they tell the truth, no one believes them. People are just so used to their lies.
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Task 1: Vocabulary Activity
(40 points)
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| Instructions: Please complete the following vocabulary activity by choosing the correct meaning of each word selected from the passage and use of each word correctly in a sentence.
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.6, |
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Task 2: Discussion Activity
(30 points)
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| Instructions: This discussion forum will have questions for students to respond. Read the posted questions, and respond to each. Students are responsible for posting one initial and and two peer responses for each topic. |
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What trick did the boy play?
What trick did the boy play on the villagers? Why did he want to play this trick?
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They had learned their lesson.
In the story, the villagers "had learned their lesson and did not want to be laughed at again". What do you think this lesson is that they learned?
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What happened when the boy finally saw a wolf?
What happened when the boy finally saw a wolf?
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3, |
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Task 3: Writing Activity
(30 points)
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| Instructions: In one paragraph, think back to a time that someone lied to you and describe how it made you feel. How did you feel about this person after they lied to you? In a second paragraph, describe how the villagers felt after being tricked and what you think the boy finally learned about lying.
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6, |
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