Literary Response – students write a book report comparing their research to an author’s viewpoint

Title – The Incredible Yuma Bat and Clapper Rail – Literary Response
By – Brenda E. Wilson
Primary Subject – Science
Secondary Subjects – Language Arts
Grade Level – 6

Period of Time: One-half month unit of study

Purpose: to introduce to the students the wonderful world of Bats and Clapper Rails.

Language Arts Standards:
Concept 5: Literary Response
Literary response is the writer’s reaction to a literary selection. The response includes the writer’s interpretation, analysis, opinion, and/or feelings about the piece of literature and selected elements within it.
PO 1. Write a response to literature that:

a. presents several clear ideas

b. supports inferences and conclusions with examples from the text, personal experience, references to other works, or reference to non-print media

c. relates own ideas to supporting details in a clear and logical manner

Other Subjects that will be integrated: Media Technology

Objective: C The students will be able to write a book report on the books they have read in the unit on bats and clapper rails.

Anticipatory Set: They then will relate on the authors who wrote these books as fellow researchers and collaborators from the sources they got on the world wide web sites.

The teacher will review the How to Write Book so that the students will have learned what writing is all about. Then the teacher will assign group five to go find books by the authors of Stellaluna and The Clapper Rail to see if they have written other books and then with the other books collected they will all write a book report of the book they each read . This will also be a part of the final day contest for awards and honors granted the best readers.

Accommodations: There will be the same assignments in Braille, and Sign Language charts.

* Abbreviations for
Cognitive = C, Assistive = A, Psychomotor = P

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