This book contains a unit of 14 integrated English language arts lessons for gifted and advanced learners in second through fourth grades, focusing on how authors use different elements of writing to transform words into a story, message, or argument. The unit is aligned with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, and it teaches students to examine how fictional and real-life individuals are transformed or attempt to transform others, by considering word choice, perspective, point of view, and the development of ideas in various texts, graphs, songs, and commercials, including scientific arguments and art. Lessons include materials lists, activities, choice-based differentiated products, opportunities for talent development, social-emotional connections, English language arts tasks, connections between concepts, assessments, and handouts. Stambaugh is a special education professor, Fecht is an educational consultant, and Finn attempt to is a gifted education specialist. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Transformations in Stories and Arguments explores essential questions, such as "How does the development of a character build the reader's understanding? How do the actions of others change the world? How do words and images impact our thinking?" This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth, is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and features accelerated content, creative products, differentiated tasks, engaging activities, and the use of in-depth analysis models to develop sophisticated skills in the language arts. Through the lens of transformation, students will examine narrative and persuasive elements essential to the analysis of short stories, advertisements, visual art, scientific argumentation, and their own writing. Students will discover transformations in themselves and their written work as they craft and revise narrative and persuasive pieces, realizing their own voice in the process.
Transformations in Stories and Arguments explores essential questions, such as "How does the development of a character build the reader's understanding? How do the actions of others change the world? How do words and images impact our thinking?" This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth, is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and features accelerated content, creative products, differentiated tasks, engaging activities, and the use of in-depth analysis models to develop sophisticated skills in the language arts.
Through the lens of transformation, students will examine narrative and persuasive elements essential to the analysis of short stories, advertisements, visual art, scientific argumentation, and their own writing. Students will discover transformations in themselves and their written work as they craft and revise narrative and persuasive pieces, realizing their own voice in the process.
Ideal for gifted classrooms or gifted pull-out groups, the unit features stories by Dan Santat, Fiona Roberton, Jannell Cannon, Christopher Myers, Maurice Sendak, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Jane Yolen, and Patricia Polacco; poetry by Carl Sandburg; sculptures by Arturo Di Modica and Kristen Visbal; a viewing of Pixar's short film Lou and a variety of commercials; and engaging short nonfiction readings.
Winner of the 2015 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award
Grades 2-4
Transformations in Stories and Arguments explores essential questions, such as "How does the development of a character build the reader's understanding?
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