Exam Content As an elementary educator, you and your students will interact wi

Exam Content

As an elementary educator, you and your students will interact with literature often. You will provide different ways for them to respond to the literature, including art, drama, music, and writing a report to name a few. These ways of responding can be used to provide instruction about literary elements found in children’s literature. While we are all familiar with book reports, other types of responses may involve deeper critical thinking and engage students in the reading process even more.
For this assessment, you will explain the role of literary elements in teaching literature by creating model graphic organizers for students to use as they learn about literary elements.
Scenario
Assume you are a fourth grade teacher who is planning a lesson using graphic and hybrid novels to teach literary elements to your students. As part of the lesson, you want students to respond to a piece of children’s literature by creating graphic organizers. To help your students, you decide to provide examples of the kinds of graphic organizers they will be creating to demonstrate their understanding of characters and plot.
Preparation
To prepare for this assessment, select a graphic or hybrid novel to read from the Recommended Picturebooks, Graphic Novels, and Hybrid Novels section from Ch. 6, “Picturebooks, Graphic Novels, and Hybrid Novels” of your textbook. Note: The novel you select will be the basis of this assessment.
Assessment Deliverable
Once you have read your selected graphic or hybrid novel, you will write a 1-page synopsis of the book in which you:
Identify the title, author, and illustrator.
Briefly describe what the book was about.
Briefly describe the following literary elements:
Setting
Theme
Style and organization
Now, you are ready to create the model graphic organizers that you will share with your students as examples for creating their own.
To begin, create a character map for the book you read in which you describe the main character and one secondary character. Your character map should include the following:
Characterization: For each character, describe the following attributes:
Physical appearance
Personality
Emotional moral traits
Relationship with other characters
Character development: For each character, address the following questions:
What challenges did the character face?
How did the character change over time?
Next, you will create a plot diagram for the book you read in which you describe the plot. (Be creative as you create your diagram.) Your plot diagram should include descriiptions of the following plot elements:
Conflict
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
To finish this assessment, consider your experience and what you learned creating graphic organizers as a response to literature and write a 1-page reflection in which you:
Describe how responding to literature through graphic organizers increases student learning and engagement, including:
Understanding of literary elements
Examples of other types of graphic organizers that can be used
Explain how you could use the graphic or hybrid novel you selected as part of an interdisciplinary lesson with another content area (e.g., math, science, social studies), including:
The content area that the novel best supports
Connection between the content area and novel
Strategy for using the novel in the lesson
Cite your sources according to APA guidelines.
Submit the following for this assessment:
Synopsis
Character map
Plot diagram
Reflection