Main idea-"Butterflies" - Revision history

Dfbachhuber at 23:27, 10 May 2010

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Dfbachhuber at 23:24, 10 May 2010

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Dfbachhuber at 23:24, 10 May 2010

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-Place the story below on a Smartboard, LCD, blackboard or white board for students to see:
+Place the story below on a Smartboard, LCD, blackboard or white board for students to see. Note: The text is presented below as a block paragraph. When you recopy this text, make sure to format correctly for paragraph and dialogue.
 <br>“Butterflies,” by Patricia Grace, Electric City and Other Stories, Penguin Books, New Zealand. 1987

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 <br>“Butterflies,” by Patricia Grace, Electric City and Other Stories, Penguin Books, New Zealand. 1987
-        The grandmother plaited her granddaughter’s hair and then she said, ‘Get your lunch.  Put it in your bag.  Get your apple.  You come straight back after school, straight home here.  Listen to the teacher,’ she said, ‘Do what she say.’
+The grandmother plaited her granddaughter’s hair and then she said, ‘Get your lunch.  Put it in your bag.  Get your apple.  You come straight back after school, straight home here.  Listen to the teacher,’ she said, ‘Do what she say.’
 	Her grandfather was out on the step.  He walked down the path with her and out onto the footpath. He said to a neighbor, ‘Our granddaughter goes to school.  She live with us now.’
 	‘She’s fine,’ the neighbor said.  ‘She’s terrific with her two plaits in her hair.”

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+<br>Text of “Butterflies.” (Included below) Project on LCD or Smartboard if possible. Students need pencil and reader's workshop or language notebooks.
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+<br>—Review main idea (too broad, too narrow, just right). Main idea can be, “the thing that gets talked about the most,” or it can be, “the meaning the author wants to communicate.”
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+<br>The teacher needs to check student notebooks.
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+<br>"Butterflies" is a thought-provoking piece. Students' perception of main idea can have a fairly wide range, and still be acceptable. Careful readers will notice that this selection involves a clash of cultures: rural and city, even black and white. Butterflies, to a farmer, are pests that destroy crops, but to a city dweller, they have a romantic quality that symbolizes beauty and change.
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+<br>The purpose of this lesson is to reinforce student understanding of main idea.
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+<br>"Butterflies" can also be used as a think-along. Format the poem on the left side, leaving the right hand side of the page open for comment. As the student reads each paragraph or section, she comments on the right. Comments can be about subject matter, "Her grandparents are strict," or language, "When she says, 'do what she say' it's dialect," character, "The teacher thinks it's wrong to kill butterflies," or some other comment the student has. Think-alongs can be a great way to teach children to respond to literature.
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Main idea-"Butterflies" - Revision history

Dfbachhuber at 23:27, 10 May 2010

Dfbachhuber at 23:24, 10 May 2010

Dfbachhuber at 23:24, 10 May 2010

Dfbachhuber: New page: === Age === === Materials === === Preparation === === Presentation === === Control Of Error === === Points Of Interest === === Purpose...

Dfbachhuber: New page: === Age ===
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