Lesson Plan: Migration (Reading - Grade 3)

Subject: Reading
Grade: 3
Lesson Objective: To read a legend about migration and then answer questions about it
Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2- 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.
Materials:
Starter:
Say:
- Have you ever had a question about something, but you didn’t know the answer and so you made an answer up? (Allow the students to answer.)
Main:
Say:
- People have been doing that same thing for hundreds of years. Nowadays, we are lucky and can usually find the answer to a question that we have in a book or on the internet.
- But, hundreds of years ago, people were not able to do that. They had to try to figure out the answer to the questions that they had.
- This is where legends and myths come from. People would make up stories to try to answer questions that they had about why things happened or how things worked.
- Today, we are going to be reading a legend about migration. What is migration? (Allow the students to answer.)
- Migration is when animals move from one area to another because of the seasons.
- You will be reading this legend that explains why some birds migrate and some birds do not. This is a Native American legend.
- While I read the legend to you, I would like you to be thinking about whether or not this story does a good job explaining why migration happens. (Read the poem)
- I am going to give you a worksheet that has questions about the legend that I read to you. I will also be giving you a copy of the legend so that you can read it to yourself.
- After you have finished reading the legend again and doing the worksheet, we will talk about your answers.
- Does anyone have any questions?
Feedback:
Say:
- Who would like to share your answers? (Allow the students to share.)
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Written by Kimberly Greacen, Education World® Contributing Writer
Kimberly is an educator with extensive experience in curriculum writing and developing instructional materials to align with Common Core State Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy.
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