® Guided Reading Fairy Tale 850L The Frog Who Would Be King Written by Kate Walker and illustrated by David Cox KEY IDEA From a well-known German fairy tale, this story tells about a frog who dreams of becoming a prince and then a king. He has help from a loving princess, and although his dreams do not go quite as planned, the outcome satisfies everyone. LITERACY STANDARDS ADDRESSED IN THIS PLAN RL.3.2 MAIN FOCUS Key Ideas & Details Sessions 1, 2, 3 L.3.4b Vocabulary Acquisition & Use Additional Instruction 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. RL.3.4 Craft & Structure Sessions 1, 3 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. RL.3.5 MAIN FOCUS Craft & Structure Sessions 2, 3 Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. RL.3.7 MAIN FOCUS Integration of Knowledge & Ideas Sessions 2, 3 Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story. ISBN 978-1-62889-174-4 RL.3.10 Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. SL.3.2 Comprehension & Collaboration Sessions 1, 2, 3 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. L.3.4 Vocabulary Acquisition & Use Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/ uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). L.3.5 Vocabulary Acquisition & Use Additional Instruction Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. RF.3.3b Phonics & Word Recognition Additional Instruction Decode words with common Latin suffixes. RF.3.4a Fluency Session 2 Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. W.3.3 Text Types & Purposes Writing Task Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. W.3.8* Research to Build & Present Knowledge Sessions 1, 2, 3 Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. *standard adapted from another grade W.3.10 Range of Writing Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Sessions 1, 2 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. Mondo Bookshop Grade 3 1 GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 1 12/17/14 7:42 PM Session 1 Text Selection: pp. 2–15 Learning Focus RL.3.2 Students read closely to recount a story and determine the central message, lesson, or moral, and explain how it is conveyed. VOCABULARY RL.3.4 Focus on the phrase pucker up in the second paragraph on page 13. Point out that the author is not using the literal meaning of the verb pucker, which means to gather into wrinkles. Ask students what they think the phrase means based on the context of the page (“to purse lips in order to get ready to kiss or be kissed on the lips”). Key Idea: Text Selection A frog who wants to be a king leaves his pond in search of a princess. He and Princess Lil fall in love, but her kiss fails to turn him into a prince. She says she will marry him anyway. Previewing the Text 5 minutes Read the title of the book and the author and illustrator credits with students. Talk about the cover illustration. Then have students read the back-cover text. he title of the book we’ll read today is The Frog Who Would Be King. Who T do we see on the cover? a frog and a woman who may be a princess How could a frog become a king? I have heard a story about a frog who became a prince when a princess kissed him. hat’s a familiar story. Let’s read the back cover. What do we learn about this T story? It says that a princess helps a frog become someone special, but that there’s an unexpected twist at the end. Who can share what an unexpected twist in a story is? Something unpredictable that happens. Let’s read the story to find out what that twist is. READING the Text CLOSELY 10 minutes Invite students to read page 3. Have them recount what they read. ELL SUPPORT L.3.4 Vocabulary Support vocabulary such as croak, creature, frog, and toad in context using the ELL vocabulary strategies in Getting Started. ho do we meet in the first page of the story and what happens? Recount W what you read on page 3. We meet the frog who wants to be someone special, so he leaves his pond to find a princess to kiss him and turn him into a handsome prince. The story says that all frogs know that story about the frog being turned into a prince. Explain the learning focus to students. Ask them to read page 5 as well. Check to see how they are doing with application of the focus. Provide support if needed. his story is a fairy tale. Many stories like this one have a central message T or lesson for readers to understand. The message can be found in the key details in the story. We met the frog on page 3. Let’s read page 5 and see who we meet there. We meet a princess in the castle the frog goes to. Who can recount or retell what happens when the princess sees the frog? COMPREHENSION SHARE If a story is a myth or fable, characters usually learn an important lesson in the end. Thinking about this lesson will help you recount these types of stories. She falls in love with him right away. He falls in love with her too. human princess usually doesn’t fall in love with a frog. What message might A there be here? Love is love. It doesn’t matter if the two people in love are very different. What key details in the text help you know how the frog feels? The text says he had never seen anyone so beautiful, lovely, or dainty. 2 The Frog Who Would Be King GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 2 12/17/14 7:42 PM If you are satisfied students can apply the learning focus, set the reading assignment and have them read through page 15. If not, prompt them to return to pages 3 and 5 to look for key details that help them determine the central message. ur work today is to follow what happens in the story and look for key O details that help us determine what the central message or lesson is. DISCUSSING the Text 10 minutes Spend some time reading parts of the story aloud. Have students listen for the main ideas and supporting details and retell what they heard. ou have read the first half of the book on your own. Let’s revisit parts of Y the story and read them aloud. Listening to a story will help you identify important ideas and supporting details that you may have missed. I’ll read pages 7, 9, and 11. . . . Who would like to share a main idea? Corrective Feedback Have students closely reread pages 3 and 5. Encourage them to silently reread, stopping at key points to think and talk together about their understandings. SL.3.2 Discussion Collaborative Lil will marry Reginald, even though he’s a frog. hat main idea supports the central message. Can you tell us details that T support this idea? Reginald asked Lil to overlook his frogginess when he proposed. And she said she would marry him, frog or not. Guide students to clarify the meaning of the word swooned on page 9. et’s reread the first sentence on page 9. The word swooned may be L unfamiliar. What could you do to find a meaning? L.3.4 Vocabulary Determine Meaning I could look at the other words in the sentence and see if they help. This strategy is called using context. Let’s see what we can find. I see the word fainted. So I think swooned means “to feel faint before you really faint.” woon can mean “faint” and “overcome with joy.” When you find an S unfamiliar word, check the context and look for clues to the word’s meaning. Confirm students’ good use of the learning focus and encourage them to keep it in mind whenever they read stories. ou recounted The Frog Who Would Be King and determined its central Y message through your understanding of the main ideas and key details. You can use this skill to help you whenever you read other stories like this. E-RESOURCE Formative Assessment: Comprehension Using the Quick Start Planner, note this session’s learning focus. Observe each student’s articulation and use of text evidence to evaluate individuals’ effective use of the learning focus. TEACHER’S CHOICE COMPREHENSION: RECOUNT E-RESOURCE Formative Assessment Have students use the blackline master on RL.3.2 COMPREHENSION Recount page 10 to recount the first half of the fairy tale. Review students’ answers as you evaluate their mastery of the learning focus. TEACHER’S CHOICE CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE: COLLECT TEXT EVIDENCE E-RESOURCE Formative/Summative Assessment Have students use the blackline master on page 11 as they read. Students will collect details from the text to answer the question: How can love make a daring dream come true? Review students’ collected evidence as your evaluate their mastery of the learning focus. W.3.8*, RL.3.2 WRITING Gather Evidence Mondo Bookshop Grade 3 3 GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 3 12/17/14 7:42 PM Session 2 Text Selection: pp. 2–15 LEARNING FOCUSES RL.3.2, RL.3.5, RL.3.7 Students read closely to continue to determine the central message, lesson, or moral through key details, while describing how each part of the story builds on earlier parts. They also explain how the illustrations contribute to the story. COMPREHENSION SHARE As you read, look carefully at the illustrations. Think about what they add to the story. They can help you discover more about a character, setting, or what is happening in the story. Returning to the Text 5 minutes Ask students to recount their reading in Session 1. Guide them to recall how they applied the learning focus to their reading. an someone recount our reading from the last session? . . . Now let’s review C what we did with the story in the last session. We explained how key details can help us decide what the central message or lesson is that we can learn from the story. Reading the Text CLOSELY 10 minutes Explain the new learning focuses. Then reread pages 3 and 5. Check to see how well they have understood the focuses. If you are satisfied that students can apply the new focuses, set the reading assignment for the session. If not, provide corrective feedback as suggested on page 3 of this lesson plan. tories have parts that build on each other as we meet the characters, learn S about a problem, read about events, find out how the problem is solved, and think about the central message. Even stories like this one that don’t have marked chapters have parts. You can think of paragraphs and pages as parts where events begin and end. Who would like to share what they think are parts of the story? I think the first page is the first part, or beginning, where the frog leaves his lily pond to find a princess. The next part is longer. It starts with Lil and Reginald meeting. Then they fall in love, Reginald proposes, and Lil says yes. How does this second part build on what we first learned about the frog? We knew he wanted to find a princess, and he does. She loves him even though he’s a frog. What are the next parts? How do they continue to build the story? The next part is Lil with her father. Then there are the parts where the characters talk to each other, like when Reginald tells Lil about kissing a frog to turn him into a prince, and she tries it, but he is still a frog. Both are disappointed, but Lil still loves him anyway. Call attention to the illustrations and discuss how they contribute to the story. Also, continue to have students look for key details that help them determine the central message. he illustrations also are important parts of the story. They can show us what T the text says and help us learn more about the setting and the characters. Let’s look at page 4. The text tells us that the princess and the frog fell in love at first sight. How does the illustration help you know this? The little hearts coming from both of them show love, and their faces look so happy. et’s look at page 10. How does the illustration help you know how Lil’s L father feels? The text says he roared. In the illustration, he has a red, angry-looking face, and he’s shaking his fist as he leans over Lil. She looks scared. ow do the illustrations and text work together to help learn more about the H central message? The king is not in love with the frog, so he sees just a frog and doesn’t want the frog to be king. That’s his reason for not letting Lil marry the frog. 4 The Frog Who Would Be King GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 4 12/17/14 7:42 PM Formative Assessment: Fluency Listen to each student read a portion of the text. Observe students’ fluency. If students need additional practice with fluency, provide the necessary support at the end of the session. Ask students to note words or phrases they find challenging for discussion after the reading. DISCUSSING the Text 10 minutes Facilitate a discussion about pages 3–15 in which you read aloud parts of the story for students to identify main ideas and supporting details. Students should continue to look for key details to help them understand the central message, refer to parts of the story when describing how each part builds on what came earlier, and examine the illustrations to note how they contribute to telling the story. et’s take a few minutes to reread some pages aloud so we can listen for L main ideas and supporting details we may have missed when we reread the story by ourselves. I’ll reread pages 13 and 15. . . . Who would like to share a main idea they identified while listening to these pages? SL.3.2 DISCUSSION Collaborative DISCUSSION TIP So that you can determine whether students understood a text read aloud, have them orally state the main ideas and supporting details. Reginald is sure that one kiss will turn him into a handsome prince. Can you show us a supporting detail? He tells her “one kiss is all it takes. I’ll turn into a prince and our problems will be over.” Anyone else? Both Lil and Reginald are upset when her kiss doesn’t turn him into a handsome prince. What details support this? Lil cried “Oh, no!” and Reginald looks glum. et’s talk about what pages or paragraphs come together to form a distinct L part in the story and how this part builds on what came earlier. Pages 13 and 15 are one part because it has dialogue where Reginald tells Lil about the kiss. She tries it, but it doesn’t work. How does this part build on what came before? Reginald sees his dream falling apart, but Lil continues to say she’ll marry him anyway. ELL SUPPORT RL.3.2 Discussing the Text Ask questions at students’ language proficiency levels and provide the following sentence frames for student responses: First, ___. Then, ___. Next, ___. The message/lesson/moral is ___. I know because ___. Talk with students about the contribution the illustrations make to the story told in the text. ho would like to share an illustration they saw in the book that helped them W learn more about a character, setting, or the story? Lil does a lot of crying in the pictures on pages 12 and 14. This helped me see that she really loves Reginald and is determined to marry him, even though he’s a frog and her father is strongly against it. Guide students to clarify the meaning of the word ingredients on page 15. et’s reread the third paragraph on page 15. . . . The word ingredients may L be unfamiliar to some of you. How can the context of the sentence and paragraph help you determine a meaning? L.3.4 VOCABULARY Determine Meaning After Reginald says “Our ingredients are right,” he lists them: a frog, a princess, and love for each other. So how would you define the word? It means “the parts you need to make something.” Mondo Bookshop Grade 3 5 GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 5 12/17/14 7:42 PM Confirm students’ good use of the learning focuses and encourage them to keep the focuses in mind whenever they read stories. ou found many key details that you’ve been putting together to determine Y the central message or lesson of the story. I like how you listened carefully to the story read aloud and noted some main ideas that you had missed earlier. You also used the illustrations to learn more about the characters and the story. Remember to use these skills whenever you read stories. E-RESOURCE Formative Assessment: Comprehension Using the Quick Start Planner, note the session’s learning focuses. Observe each student’s articulation and use of text evidence to evaluate individuals’ effective use of the learning focuses. TEACHER’S RF.3.4a FLUENCY Purpose and Understanding CHOICE FLUENCY FOLLOW-UP Fluency Practice Choose two or three pages to read aloud. Model how a story is read, including the difference in reading narrative and dialogue. As you read the narrative, show how you phrase parts of the sentences to create a smooth flow and enhance understanding. Read the dialogue with expression to show the emotions the characters are feeling. TEACHER’S W.3.8*, RL.3.2 Writing Gather Evidence CHOICE CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE: COLLECT TEXT EVIDENCE E-RESOURCE Formative/Summative Assessment Have students continue to use the blackline master on page 11 for collecting evidence as they read. Students will continue to collect details from the text to answer the question: How can love make a daring dream come true? Review students’ collected evidence as you evaluate their mastery of the learning focus. TEACHER’S CHOICE CLOSE READING OPTIONS E-RESOURCE Summative Assessment Print the online blackline master for independent close reading. Ask students to read a portion of the Session 3 text selection independently, as indicated on the blackline master. Then have them respond to the prompts (summarize author’s message, identify critical vocabulary, respond to constructed response questions) before returning for Session 3’s small-group discussion. Alternatively, you can use the completed blackline master for summative assessment. 6 The Frog Who Would Be King GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 6 12/17/14 7:42 PM Session 3 Text Selection: pp. 16–31 Key Idea: Text Selection Reginald visits the local witch, while Lil sees a magician about their problem. Reginald is turned into a toad and finds Lil turned into a frog. Lil kisses Reginald, who becomes a prince. They find they are still in love and marry anyway, and Reginald becomes king. Returning to the Text 5 minutes Review the focuses that students learned and applied in previous sessions. Let’s review our last session. Who would like to share what we did? We looked at pages and paragraphs to see how they could be separated into parts and then saw how each part builds on the last one to keep the story going. We also looked for more key details to add to what we think is the central message. And we looked carefully at the illustrations to see what we could learn about the characters and what was happening. Reading the Text CLOSELY 10 minutes Invite students to read page 17. Check to see how they are doing with application of the focuses as you have done previously. Then have students read through page 31. et’s read page 17 and talk about how Lil and Reginald respond to being L disappointed by Lil’s kiss not turning Reginald into a prince. Who will share? Neither of them is giving up. They’re going to try asking a witch and a magician to help them. How does this page build on the story so far? It says that Reginald has come too far from the lily pond to turn back now, so we’re reminded of where he came from and of his dream. LEARNING FOCUSES RL.3.2, RL.3.5, RL.3.7 Students continue to read closely for key details that help to convey the central message, lesson, or moral, while describing how each part of the story builds on earlier parts. They also continue to explain how the illustrations contribute to the story. VOCABULARY RL.3.4 Have students find the phrase till the cows come home at the end of the first paragraph on page 19. Review what the witch has just told Reginald about frogs not being able to be turned into princes. Then have students suggest what the witch really means when she talks about cows. Explain that she is saying that a frog could be kissed for a long time and nothing would happen. How does the illustration add to this idea? They are both smiling. Each one is thinking of the person who might help. How does this part support the central message or lesson? Love will keep on trying to find a way to make a dream come true. Reginald and Lil will keep trying until they can be together and Reginald can be a king. Discussing the Text 10 minutes Guide a discussion in which students continue to link the three learning focuses. Continue to read aloud pages of text, encouraging students to identify main ideas and supporting details. SL.3.2 DISCUSSION Collaborative etermining main ideas and details will help our discussion. I’ll read page 27 D aloud, and you listen for a main idea and details. . . . Who can share a main idea they heard? Lil thought it was great she was a frog. Reginald did not. What details support this? Lil said “all our problems are solved.” Reginald disagreed, saying she was a beautiful frog and he was an ugly toad. o you think our ideas about the central message hold up after reading the D rest of the story? Yes, because Reginald’s dream to become king does come true. Also, he and Lil get married and still love each other, no matter who’s a frog. GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 7 Mondo Bookshop Grade 3 7 12/17/14 7:42 PM How did the illustrations help you to know this? In the last picture, they both look happy. What was the twist at the end? Lil ended up as a frog, and Reginald turned into a prince. How did you think of the story in parts? One part was Reginald with the witch. Another part was with the magician. The next was Reginald and Lil back together. The last was the king changing his mind about them getting married. How did these parts build on what you read earlier? Even though Lil and Reginald continued to change, they still loved each other. Encourage students to share understandings with a partner. urn and share your ideas with a partner. What did you learn as you read T through the book? I learned to think about a story in parts so I could understand how the parts build on each other. I found out that illustrations add a lot of information to a story. And I saw how key details could tell me what message a story had. TEACHER’S W.3.8*, RL.3.2 WRITING Respond to Question TEACHER’S CHOICE CHOICE CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE: WRITE TO SOURCE E-RESOURCE Formative/Summative Assessment Have students continue to use the blackline master on page 11 as they finish reading. Then ask them to write a response on a separate sheet of paper that answers the question: How can love make a daring dream come true? Have students use the text evidence they collected to support their writing. Writing Task: Narrative W.3.3 WRITING Narrative E-RESOURCE Summative Assessment Review with students the elements of a narrative. Then ask them to write a story in which they show how love can make a daring dream come true. Guide students to use the evidence they collected to help them craft a new story about Reginald and Lil or other characters of their choice. Have them use the same central message you and the class identified for the story. Suggest they include illustrations with their story. ou’ve read about very different characters whose love and determination Y made a daring dream come true. Now write a new story about Reginald and Lil or other characters you choose. Use the same central message we identified for The Frog Who Would Be King as part of your story. Some ideas for a story may be Lil and Reginald helping another frog, or the magician and the witch falling in love. Make sure your story has a clear beginning, middle, and end. 8 The Frog Who Would Be King GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 8 12/17/14 7:42 PM TEACHER’S CHOICE Additional Instruction word study Affixes Help students determine word meaning when a known affix is added to a known word. L.3.4b VOCABULARY Affixes ou can use root words and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar Y words. Let’s look at the second paragraph on page 21. The witch is described as having a “toothless smile.” What is the root word of toothless? tooth What is the suffix? -less Who would like to tell us the meaning of the suffix -less? without So let’s define the word. without teeth Now, let’s talk about beautiful on page 5 and courageous on page 11. VOCabulary Imagery Discuss with students the author’s use of imagery on page 19. L.3.5 VOCABULARY Figurative Language et’s turn to page 19 and reread the part about Reginald and the witch. Let’s L look for the variety of words the author uses to create images that we can easily picture in our minds. I see one. The witch says “smack” as another word for “kiss.” hat makes what the witch says more interesting than just saying kiss again. T What else makes smack interesting? When I read it aloud, it makes me think of the sound of a big kiss. Who can find another strong word image? I like “dragging his flippers in despair.” I know the frog is really sad and ready to give up because of the words dragging and despair. he author chose some good words to help us imagine the story. Look for T more as you continue to read. Word Recognition Decoding Words with Latin Suffixes Point out the word shiny on page 7. sing what you know about suffixes can also help you to decode a word. U Let’s look at the word shiny on page 7. What is the root word and suffix? VOCABULARY Explain to students that authors use vivid words to help readers picture in their minds what is happening in the story. Ways to do this include using strong verbs and words that sound like the action they name. RF.3.3b Word recognition Latin Suffixes shine; -y If you know that the e was dropped before adding the suffix, you will know that the word is pronounced as shy-nee and not shin-ee. You can also try each pronunciation in the sentence to see what makes sense. You can apply this same strategy to dewy (p. 5), murky (p. 21), and warty (p. 27). Mondo Bookshop Grade 3 9 GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 9 12/17/14 7:42 PM Name Date Comprehension: Recount You read the first half of the fairy tale “The Frog Who Would Be King.” Now recount the most important details that you read so far. The Frog Who Would Be King Details about the Setting Details about What Happens Page Number: Page Number: Page Number: Page Number: Page Number: Page Number: © Mondo Publishing Details about the Characters Score: 10 The Frog Who Would Be King GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 10 12/17/14 7:42 PM Name Date Collecting Text Evidence How can love make a daring dream come true? Use this chart to collect text evidence about how love can make a daring dream come true. Write what Reginald’s dream was. Then write what each character did to make the dream come true. Use as many copies of the chart as you need to collect the evidence. What was Reginald’s daring dream? Character How the Character Helped Reginald’s Dream Come True Reginald Lil The King © Mondo Publishing The witch The court magician Score: Mondo Bookshop Grade 3 11 GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 11 12/17/14 7:42 PM Name Date Writing Task: Narrative First Draft Review the evidence you collected about the central message in The Frog Who Would Be King. Write a story that has this same message for readers. You can write the story about Lil and Reginald or other characters that you choose. REMEMBER: A well-written narrative includes: • a clear beginning, middle, and end • characters and a setting • a problem that the characters try to solve • events that happen in order © Mondo Publishing • an ending in which the problem is solved Score: 12 The Frog Who Would Be King GR_G3_FrogWhoWouldBeKing_LP_JO.indd 12 12/17/14 7:42 PM
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