Unit 1: Read All About It

Activity 5:  Panel Discussions (GLEs:  05b, 14c, 17, 18, 23c, 25, 37)

CC:  Students meet in groups to discuss a read-aloud or trade book.

Use Kidspiration software template to promote students' discussion of their books and the problems and solutions in the stories.

Kidspiration template - "Story Problems and Solutions"

Web Sites:

ReadWriteThink - Lesson Plan

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=803

PowerPoint- Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Conflict Resolution

PowerPoint on Conflict

StoryMap

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/index.html