Story Settings Small Group Reading Lesson Plans and Passages l RL.4.3 RL.5.3

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How often do you teach your students to think about the impact a setting has on a fictional story? The setting of a story is something we don’t often focus on in upper elementary, but we should!  With these 5 ready-to-print reading lesson plans, you will have everything you need to teach your small group lessons on understanding the impact a setting has on a story! Each lesson set includes everything you need for an effective small group lesson. You’ll get scripted teacher lesson plans, student reading passages, a strategy card (aka mini-anchor chart) for your lesson objective, and a response sheet with a graphic organizer and comprehension questions connected to the focus of your small group lesson.

These strategy lessons work great for your small group instruction, but you could also use them for the whole group lessons you plan on teaching during your unit fictional story elements. From helping your students understand what is included when we use the term setting to helping them learn how to visualize the setting. From helping them learn how to analyze the impact of the setting to thinking about how a setting changes throughout the story. These strategy lessons will help your students learn how to pay close attention and critically think about the setting of fictional stories.

This set of lesson plans makes teaching setting easy. All the planning and prep work has been done for you. All you have to do is print and teach! Think about all the time you’ll save not having to hunt for reading passages that connect to the point of view objective for your lesson. Each small group lesson set includes everything you need.

HERE’S WHAT YOU GET:

• 5 Scripted out teacher lesson plans (perfect for small group instruction)
• 5 Passages to use with each lesson
• 5 Response pages (includes graphic organizer and response questions)
• 5 Strategy Cards (mini-anchor charts)
• Answer Key
• Digital Version
• Teacher Guide

Check out the preview to learn more about this resource.

LET’S BREAK DOWN EACH LESSON ELEMENT:

• Scripted Teacher Lesson Plan – The small group lesson plans provide you with the exact language you need to say to make sure your students are mastering the objective for the lesson. It also provides you with a really easy-to-implement lesson framework that works great for small group lessons.
• Strategy Card – Each lesson also comes with a strategy card (like a mini anchor chart). This strategy card works great as a visual support during your lesson and students can take it with them at the end of the lesson.
• Student Passage – Each passage is short (less than one full page) so it can quickly be read during a small group lesson.  It is also written in a way that makes it really easy for the students to practice and apply the focus skill. You won’t have to worry if the text you give your students will work for the lesson objective.
• Response Page – If you want to extend your lesson or give your students an extension assignment, you can give them the response page which includes a graphic organizer focused on the lesson objective and three comprehension questions.
• Digital Version – There is also a digital version created using Google Slides so this resource will work during both face-to-face and virtual instruction.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Here is a list of all the objectives/focus skills for each lesson.

• Lesson #1 – Story Settings
• Lesson #2 – Visualize the Setting
• Lesson #3 – What’s the Mood?
• Lesson #4 – Impact of Setting
• Lesson #5 – Settings Change

You’ll love getting everything you need to teach a small group lesson on setting. Just think of all the hours you’ll save not having to type out your lesson plans, hunt for a passage that matches your lesson objective, and then come up with response questions/activities for your students to do after the lesson.

HERE’S HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE IN YOUR CLASSROOM:

• Use these lessons during small group instruction to help students learn how to analyze and describe the setting.
• Use as part of your guided reading lessons and spread out the reading and writing tasks over multiple days.
• Use as part of test prep to help your students get ready to understand the impact setting has on stories included in their end-of-year state test.
• Use passages during intervention to help support students who struggle with understanding the impact of a setting on a story.
• Use as part of your whole group lesson.
• Leave as part of your sub-plans – the scripted lesson plans make these resources really easy to follow.

LOVED BY BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: 

→ Your students will love the topics of the stories and texts included in this resource. The passages are high-interest and will hold your student’s attention during the entire small group lesson.

→ You’ll love how quick and easy it is to prep your small group lessons. All you have to do is print the materials for the lesson you want to teach and you’re all set to teach. No more searching for reading passages or guided reading books or trying to find a passage that matches the skill you want to teach.

→Your students will love the “bite-sized” objective for each lesson. They won’t feel overwhelmed by what you are trying to teach them. They will feel confident in their ability to practice the one focus skill for each lesson.

→ You’ll love how easy the lesson structure is to follow. Each lesson follows the 4T model (clearly explained in the preview and lesson set). You can be confident that you will be using your small group time in a way that will actually move your students towards reaching their reading goals.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Katie K. said, “This was a great resource for learning about the impact the setting has on a story.  It was just what I needed!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Michelle G. purchased the fiction bundle and said,  “I have really enjoyed using these lessons with my small groups. They are easy to use and adapt to the students and they provide you with everything that you might need.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Crystal S. purchased the fiction bundle and said, “I enjoy using this resource in small groups during my reading instruction.  The lessons are easy-to-use with little prep.”

**The resource is also included in The Stellar Literacy Collective.**