Winnie The Pooh Book Report

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Teaching Points:
Before Reading – After giving a list of assigned words that are used throughout the literature book Winnie the Pooh, students will write a short story of their own while including the assigned words. Students may use a dictionary or Google.com to research the meaning of unfamiliar words. Certain words may include: growly, buzzing, slithered, gorse, deceive, complaining. The teacher will model how to do this by using one of the assigned ones and showing students where to find it in a dictionary.
During Reading – The students will form into groups and begin discussing what they read with one another. The teacher may scaffold the conversation by asking groups questions such as “which character did you relate to the most”, “which …show more content…

This standard states “The student will respond to, discuss, and reflect on various literary selections (e.g., poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction), connecting text to self (personal connection), text to world (social connection), text to text (comparison among multiple texts).” In this section, the students are primarily focusing on the reflecting, text to self, part of the standard. (CPALMS.org, n.d.)

Background Knowledge:
In order to enhance their vocabulary, to improve their comprehension of the text, students much first have background knowledge of basic definitions that will help them connect and build new vocabulary with former vocabulary. The students must also have the ability to look at the context of an unfamiliar word and be able to decipher the meaning based on the words or phrases that surround it. The foundational skills of accomplishing this is through studying early fundamental vocabulary words and then connecting new words with priorly known words of similar meaning. (Center for Research on Education, n.d.)

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As well, the teacher should skim the book for any onomatopoeia words and play the sounds aloud by using appropriate Youtube.com videos that demonstrate the noise. For instance, in order to show students how a swarm of buzzing bees sound, the teacher can show a video via Youtube. The teacher may also want to use Google Images to show students what objects in the book look like. Additionally, students may use Microsoft Word to write their reflection during the after activity. Last, for a follow up activity, the teacher may want to show the students the video version of Winnie the Pooh, so the students can watch the story come to

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