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“The Big Scoop" -Organization //** Prior to reading one of our stories, I will introduce the organization tool "The Big Scoop".
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The students will be focusing on researching information found in literature. It will help them to distinguish the different parts of a story. This will help them to recall facts, terms, and basic concepts found in their book.

How to use: I will give each student some text to read from our story. i will have several different short stories to hand out. Then the students will tell you the facts from the reading. **Looking for who, what, when, where, why and how**.

Give each student a "big scoop" paper. It is a paper with an ice cream cone with 6 round empty scoops on top with each of the question words listed before in one of the scoops.

Students will then ask questions about the story using the question words. They will write their answers o their questions on their organizers.

Next, have each student find a partner who read a different story and trade their "Big Scoops". Have the partners write a new story based off of the "Big Scoop" they received from their partner. When the stories have been written have the partners get back together. Have them read one another's new story. Ask them to compare their new story to the original story. The student will be able to see if their graphic organizer was effective based on their partner's story.

Assessment:Were the students able to recall important details from the story? Were they able to orgranize the who, what, when, where, why and how?

__Graphic Organizers for the Content Areas __by Schell Educational Publishing

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