I am the storyteller

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Language Arts

Grade Level(s):

• 3rd-4th Grade

Description:

This is a lesson planned for fourth graders to introduce them to storytelling. The students will learn about storytelling and will learn a short story which they will tell to an audience.

Standards:

National Information Literacy Standards (K-12)

Accesses information efficiently and effectively.

• Recognizes the need for information.

Uses information accurately and creatively

• Organizes information for practical application.
• Produces and communicates information and ideas in appropriate formats

Appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.

• Is a competent and self-motivated reader.

Information Skills and Subskills (K-16)

Definition

• Identifies requirements of research task
• Determines amount/type of information needed to complete research task

Planning

• Identifies potential information sources
• Identifies potential formats for presenting results

Exploration

• Locates and accesses information resources

Organization

• Sequences final information
• Organizes final information for presentation

Presentation

• Presents results

Evaluation

• Evaluates end product
• Subject: K-12: Language Arts

National Content Standards (K-12)

Reading

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
• Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts

Listening and Speaking

• Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes