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The Gardener
Literacy Unit
Arizona State Standards
Strand 1: Reading Process
• Concept 4: Vocabulary
Acquire and use new vocabulary in relevant contexts.
• Concept 6 Employ strategies to comprehend text
PO 1 Predict events and actions, based upon prior knowledge and text
features
PO 4: Use graphic organizers in order to clarify the meaning of the text
Strand 3: Writing Applications
• Concept 3: Functional Writing
PO 2. Write communications, including:
a. thank-you notes
b. friendly letters
c. formal letters
d. messages
e. invitations
PO 3. Address an envelope for correspondence that includes:
a. an appropriate return address
b. an appropriate recipient address
Pre-reading Activity
Instructional objective: The teacher will provide
students with a list of key words from the story
and four categories. The teacher will model the
key word categorization strategy for the class.
Student behavioral objective: Given a list of words
from a story, the student will write each word
under one of the given categories.
Pre-reading Activity
Key Word Categorization:
P.S.
envelope
May 27, 1936
seeds
bulbs
aunt
cake
smile
mama
Dear Grandma
niece
Your niece
roots
Love to all
flowers
papa
secret
holiday
window boxes
garden
grandma
uncle
Pre-reading Activity
Writing a letter
P.S.
Your niece
Love to all
May 27, 1936
Dear Grandma
envelope
Relatives
mama
grandma
papa
niece
uncle
aunt
Plants
seeds
bulbs
flowers
window boxes
roots
garden
Celebrations
cake
smile
secret
holiday
Vocabulary
Instructional objective: The teacher will predict text content
using prior knowledge and text features (e.g.,
illustrations, titles, topic sentences, key words) and use
context to determine the relevant meaning of a word.
Student behavioral objective: Students will predict key
vocabulary words in the story, The Gardener. They will
do this by choosing words they predict will appear in the
story based on the title and cover. If there is anyone that
does not know the meaning of one of their words, they
will give a definition or example to help clarify. Students
will gather pictures from magazines, clip art, or draw
their own, that help identify and illustrate five key
vocabulary words or their choice.
Vocabulary
• Present book “The Gardener” to the class.
• Build background and ask the students to explain what
personal experiences they might have with gardening.
• Have kids make predictions on vocabulary words they
may encounter while reading the story. They will record
these in their own personal writers’ notebooks.
• Kids will get together in groups of four to compile a list
of words and write them on the white board.
• Ask if there are any unknown words that need to be
clarified.
• Students will create their own vocabulary cards for five
words, in which they will find/draw pictures to represent
them
Comprehension
1.
Have an “I wonder..” wall
a. What do they wonder about the story?
b. Do they wonder about gardening?
c. Do they wonder about flowers?
2.
Triorama for end of story
a. one side will be list of characters
b. one side will be summary
c. front will be their own version of a cover for the
book
3.
Students to create their own class test
Writing Activity
Instructional objective: For our weekly writing, my fourth
grade kiddos will construct a friendly letter to a family
member of their choice. The kiddos will learn the format
of a friendly letter and how to label an envelope
correctly.
Student behavioral objective: The kiddos will actively listen
to our weekly story, The Gardener. At the end of the
week, each fourth grader will construct their own letter
to one of their family members. When they have
completed their letter, the kiddos will then prepare their
envelopes.
Writing Activity
Materials:
*The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
*Friendly letter rubric
*Final draft writing templates
*Envelopes
*Pens (final)
Writing Activity
1. Re-read The Gardener
2. Create a template using chart paper with
the kiddos
3. Model and go over the rubric
4. Set them free!
5. Conference