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**Subject**: Language Arts
 * Topic**: Creating your own children's book
 * Grade** Level: Seventh
 * Teacher**: Ms. Burke

Focus Attention/ Motivation: 10 minutes Instructional Input and Modeling: 5 minutes Student Engagement and Practice: 25 minutes Closure: 5 minutes Total: 45 minutes
 * Time Frame**

1. For students to have a clear understanding of how to create a children's book.
 * Objectives**:

2. For students to create a tree diagram with different ideas of what they want their story to be about. Ideas need to be age appropriate (pre K- third grade).

3. For students to engage in their creativity.

IL.3.B STANDARD: Compose well-organized and coherent writing for specific purposes and audiences. IL.3.B.3a > Produce documents that convey a clear understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and display focus, organization, elaboration and coherence. IL.3.B.3b > Edit and revise for word choice, organization, consistent point of view and transitions among paragraphs using contemporary technology and formats suitable for submission and/or publication.
 * State Standards**

1. Students will create a tree diagram correctly branching off different ideas for their children’s story.
 * Instructional Objectives**

1. Previous year children's story 2. Poster board 3. Guidelines for children's story 4. Exit slip 5. Children's Story Rubric
 * Materials**

//Focus Attention/Motivation://
 * Procedures**

1. Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to start creating out own children's book. With that in mind, I am going to share a student's work from last year. I thought this was a real creative story.

2. After the completion of the story, Students will be asked, "What did you like about the story, what did you not like about the story?" Students will share their own ideas with the class.

//Instructional Input & Modeling://

1. "Now, we are going to start thinking of some ideas that make a good children's book."

2. “In your journal, I would like for you to create a tree diagram. It is going to look like the ones you have been creating in Math class.” Draw on bored what you expect from the tree diagram. Go through a model. Explain how the tree moves down as you go on.

3. Your goal as an individual is to create a tree diagram with different ideas that you would like your story to go. Keep in mind, what younger children like to read about: superheroes and animals that act as humans. You can also think of other ideas as well.

//Student Engagement/Practice://

1. Students will be given time to work on their tree diagrams. They will eventually have to pick their favorite idea in their diagram in order to create a story from.

2. The creating your own children's story will be introduced. The guidelines for the story are:

-The grade levels must be between pre- kindergarten and third grade

-You must create a children's story that is at least ten pages long.

-The story must be neat, clear, show that thought went into the project, as well as effort.

-There must be age appropriate illustrations (can be from Google images, you can draw them, or be creative and think of another way to come up with images. They just must be age appropriate)

- You do not have to get a point across, you can do learning your letters or numbers, or your story can have a plot.

3. Students will be given time to brainstorm more ideas for their story as well finish up their tree diagram if it has not been completed.

4. Students will be given the rubric to see what I expect from them.

//Closure://

1. Students will be asked to write down what they think their final topic will be for their children’s book. Students can change if they decide too, but this is another way of informally assessing the students to see if they completed their work.

2. Students will be assigned the project and will be informed that it is due on Monday.

1. Students will be informally assessed on their tree diagram. A check will be provided on a clipboard if student participated in the project.
 * Assessment**

2. Exit slip will be graded. Worth five points if students came up with good children’s book ideas and showed that they gained from the group project by considering ideas that make up a good children's story.

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 * Accommodations**

to be about. Their tree diagram will show relationships. This goes along with Math and creating tree diagrams for GCF and LCF.
 * Curricular Connections: Students will create a tree diagram based on what they want their story