After reading the first, second, and third parts of "How Bear Lost His Tail", third grade writers answer questions about the story by completing a series of options, including discussion points. Then, they begin to plan a new narrative writing ending to the story.

Concepts

Narrative Writing, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Choose one or more options to have class members complete for each part
• Use the rubric to assess writers' work

Classroom Considerations

• Assumes learners have had experience in identifying parts of a narrative, writing a narrative, and planning a narrative writing prompt
• The story is a Lexile® 760 reading level

Pros

• Includes the full story, as well as a version of the story broken down into three parts for readers to use as a basis for planning writing and responding to comprehension questions
• Combines reading comprehension skills with narrative writing skills
• Comes with an extended writing prompt to take the learning further
• Provides scoring rubrics and answer keys, as well as ways to implement the task

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.2 W.3.3.a W.3.3.b W.3.3.d SL.3.1.a