Small+Group+Instruction+iTouches+EX1

Subject: Reading Grade Level: 4

TEKS: (6) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (A) sequence and summarize the plot's main events and explain their influence on future events; (B) describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes they undergo Objectives: Students will correctly identify the setting, characters, main idea, and details of a given story or movie clip. Students will use inferencing to describe relationships between the characters. Students will use inferencing to deduce the setting of the story.

This lesson can either be done in small segments on different days in sequence OR it can be done as one small group lesson depending on the level of your students and their familiarity with the skills necessary to complete the assignment. The following lesson is shown as a single day small group lesson.

Small Group: (Student A, Student B, Student C, Student D, and Student E)

Materials: 5 iTouches 3 Pre-loaded video clips (Beginning, Middle, and End of CARS) - This can be found on You Tube. [|www.zamzar.com] - Used to download the You Tube videos. 5 Headphones 1 Questioning Sheet

Lesson:
 * 1) Teacher will pass out the iTouches and instruct the students to watch the first video. (Teacher may need to specify where to find the video on the iTouch.)
 * 2) Students will use the headphones and iTouches to view video 1.
 * 3) Students will collaborate to answer the questions for video one about characters, setting, main idea, and inferencing clues. Teacher will guide as necessary.
 * 4) Students will then use the headphones and iTouches to view video 2.
 * 5) Students will collaborate to answer the questions for video one about characters, setting, main idea, and inferencing clues. Teacher will guide as necessary.
 * 6) Students will then use the headphones and iTouches to view video 3.
 * 7) Students will collaborate to answer the questions for video one about characters, setting, main idea, and inferencing clues. Teacher will guide as necessary.
 * 8) Students will then discuss how the characters seemed to change over time based on their visual clues and inferencing skills.
 * 9) Students will then discuss specific details of the movie and the overall main idea of all three videos.


 * Note: The videos don't need to be longer than 1-2 minutes. Try to find clips that show the evolution of the characters to provide greater discussion. **