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Grade: Grade 4
Subject: English Language Arts
Created by:
Kelly Farmerie
Lesson Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Keywords/Tags: Reading, Writing, The Lion and the Spider
Lesson Description: The goal of this lesson is to test students and see their performance levels based on the fourth grade curriculum in reading, comprehension, and writing skills. Students will read the passage, "The Lion and the Spider" and will have an opportunity to discuss the lesson with peers and elaborate on the meaning behind the story. The students will be able to put themselves in the shoes of the spider and write about what observations they might find when watching the lion. This lesson is designed to help students with comprehension and writing skills.
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Common Core Standards Covered with This Lesson
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.9a: Apply grade 4 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions].”).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.1c: Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.5c: Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).
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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 Lion and the Spider
It was a sunny day in the grassland. The lion had slept well. It was fierce when it hunted. But today it was not hungry yet. It would hunt for food later in the day. Right now, all it wanted to do was relax. It stretched out and watched the grass.
Then it noticed a spider. The spider was climbing on a plant. Then the spider jumped to the next plant and left a string between them. It was making a web. The lion watched for a while. “How clever you are,” it said to the spider. “How did you learn to do that?”
The spider said, “My mother showed me how to do this. I learned from her. And I have taught my children how to make webs.”
The lion watched a while longer. Then it asked the spider, “But why do you do that when you could just grab your food, the way I do?”
“I am just a small animal. I cannot run fast. So I do not eat insects that run. I cannot fly. I eat flies. So with my web I can catch them.”
The lion said, “Could you make me a web that could catch an animal for me to eat? Then I would not have to run after them either.”
The spider thought about that. At first she thought the lion was joking. But he was not.
“I can’t do that,” she said. “My web can catch a fly. But it could not catch a big animal. And you could not live by eating flies.”
Just then a fly flew into the spider’s web. She went to get it. She wrapped it up for her children. Then she went back to spinning more of the web.
The lion was very selfish. It was jealous of the spider. It did not have to work hard for its food. And it would not help him get his food. So it slapped at the spider web and broke it. But the spider jumped onto the lion’s back. And it bit the lion.
“Now you will remember me,” said the spider as she hopped off and into the grass. “Think before you are mean to another animal. We are all special. And some of us may be small but very smart.”
The lion tried to scratch its back but could not reach the spider bite. It itched for days. The lion remembered the smart spider for a long time.
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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.4.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.5c, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.6, |
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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 did the spider teach the lion?
What did the spider teach the lion? What was the purpose of this story? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
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Using background knowledge and evidence from the text to make an inference.
Using background knowledge and evidence from the text make an inference about why these creatures catch their prey the way they do. You may also use text from the story to support your answer.
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"Now you will remember me"
In the story, the spider said, "Now you will remember me." Why did the spider want the lion to remember him? How did what the spider did influence the lion for the rest of his life? Use information from the story to support your answers.
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.1c, |
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Task 3: Writing Activity
(30 points)
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| Instructions: For your writing assignment, look at lion from the perspective of the spider. What would the spider observe about the lion and the way it catches it's prey? What do you think the spider would say to the lion? Write 2-3 paragraphs describing your thoughts as to what the spider would see and how it would react if the roles were reversed. Submit your assignment using the box below.
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.9a, |
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