📖Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 Determine a story’s theme from text details, such as how characters respond to challenges; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
⏰LESSON TIME
10-20 minutes
📲TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED
None required if learning in the classroom. Copies of assignment can be printed and distributed to students. A device with a web-browser – PC, Mac or Chromebook – or phone or tablet if completed on line.
📃Summary
This short lesson is the fourth in a 10-unit English/ Language Arts unit centered around a visit to their grandmother that integrates English/ Language Arts and indigenous history. Once at grandmother’s house, she tells a story about a wizard who created a fireball wand. The student reads the page, answers a quiz. This lesson may be linked with “Vocabulary in the attic” for a full class period lesson.
📚Lesson Plan
1. Introduce the Lesson
Introducing the Lesson using the attached Google slide presentation should only take 3-5 minutes, including any time for questions.
1a Students complete reading and quiz
You can link directly to the Fireball Wand reading and quiz here in your Google classroom assignment, or print copies for students to read in class.
You can find the answer key for the quiz here.
Recommended resource: This activity uses a reading passage The Fireball Wand from the Have Fun Teaching site. While the site charges a monthly fee, there is also a free starter account teachers can sign up for sample activities.
Related lessons
The previous lesson in this unit is
The next lesson in this unit is Vocabulary in the Attic, where students use a page from the dictionary to answer questions and play a game that teaches about synonyms and idioms.
The previous game in this unit is Dakota Boyhood, where students read a passage, answer questions to check reading comprehension, and play a game that teaches Lakota history.
Assessment
The quiz, linked above, serves as an assessment of students’ mastery of the standards referenced.
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