Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Joanne Van Zyl Date: 2/12/19 Day 3

Title of Lesson: ​Babushka Baba Yaga ​Plot Cooperating Teacher: Pamela Crichton
and Climax

Core Components
Subject, Content Area, or Topic
Language Arts, Reading
Student Population
3rd Grade

Learning Objectives
ELA.3.4.4 ​The student will use context to clarify meaning of unfamiliar words.
ELA.3.5.5 The student will visualize information in text.
ELA 3.5.8 The student will draw conclusions and make inferences about the text.
ELA 3.5.10 The student will identify the problem and solution.
ELA.3.5.12 The student will describe character development and compare and contrast settings,
characters, and events.
ELA 3.5.13 I will summarize a story, using signal words for sequencing and focusing on story
elements, ​setting, central goal or conflict, important characters and events.

Virginia Essential Knowledge and Skills (SOL)

VDOE Technology Standards

English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

Materials/Resources
Babushka Baba Yaga ​by Patricia Polacco
Plot Mountain! Song ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWHZJZQDSE
Plot Mountain Worksheet (1 copy for each student, then one copy for each group for later activity)
Babushka Baba Yaga Plot Elements (ask Ms. Crichton)
Fairytale Plot Elements:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAeLUN_5FnHwC3kZbIRSxwBlD1QITsHrBJtATUpVl7Y/
edit?usp=sharing
Process Logs

High Yield Instructional Strategies Used (Marzano, 2001)

Check if Used Strategy Return

Identifying Similarities & Differences 45%
Summarizing & Note Taking 34%
Reinforcing Efforts & Providing Recognition 29%
 Homework & Practice 28%
Nonlinguistic Representations 27%
Cooperative Learning 23%
Setting Goals & Providing Feedback 23%
Generating & Testing Hypothesis 23%
Questions, Cues, & Advanced Organizers 22%

DOES YOUR INSTRUCTIONAL INPUT & MODELING YIELD THE POSITIVE

RETURNS YOU WANT FOR YOUR STUDENTS?
Check if Used Strategy Return
Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning 95%
Practice by Doing 75%
Discussion 50%
Demonstration 30%
Audio Visual 20%
Reading 10%
Lecture 05%

Safety ​(if applicable)

Time
(min.)
Process Components
*Anticipatory Set

TTW explain to students that every fiction story has a plot and that every plot has
five different elements to move the story forward: an exposition/introduction that
introduces characters and setting, a rising actions that introduces or causes the
conflict of a story, the climax which is the main event in the story that addresses
the conflict, the falling actions which are the result of the climax, and the resolution
which is the end of the story, usually resolving the conflict.
TTW draw the plot mountain on the board while explaining these terms.
TTW show the Plot Mountain! ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWHZJZQDSE
song to students (2:38).
TTW explain to the students how we will be reading Babushka Baba Yaga and will
be focusing on all the different elements in the story

*State the Objectives (grade-level terms)

I will be able to draw conclusions and make inferences about what will happen next
using clues from the story.
I will be able to identify the problem and solution of the story.
I will be able identify the beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and
resolution of the story.
*Instructional Input or Procedure
TTW give student the Plot Mountain Worksheet and ask them to focus on how the story
begins.
TTW introduce Babushka Baba Yaga by explaining that a Baba Yaga is a scary witchlike
creature told in Russian folklore and a babushka is known to be a grandmother. TTW ask
students to use their context clues to figure out what many Russian terms are in the text.
TTW begin to read the story and stop after the second page, asking students to discuss
with their reading buddy who is the main character of the story and what is the conflict.
TTW ask students what elements of the story they already know: main character, setting,
and conflict.
TTW ask the students what they already know about Baba Yaga’s character.
TTW continue to read the story until Baba Yaga leaves Victor and Natasha.
TTW ask reading buddies to discuss why they think Baba Yaga left Victor and Natasha
instead of telling them the truth.
After the story, TTW draw a plot mountain on the board and label it with the
introduction/exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. TTW ask the
students who the main characters and the setting was in the story. TTW write their
responses off to the side.
TTW read off each plot element sentence to help students identify what is the
introduction/exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
TSW write these sentences in their own plot mountain worksheet.
*Modeling
TTW model how to create a plot mountain and explain how each element of the plot
moves the story along and constantly reiterate how the climax is the turning point of the
story that addresses the main conflict.
*Check for Understanding
TTW have students create their own plot mountain with classic fairy tales. TSW have to
discover each of the 5 plot elements we discussed.
TSW also have to write in their process logs the Kaplan Prompt: what is the theme and
message of Babushka Baba Yaga.
*Guided Practice
TTW give student the Plot Mountain Worksheet and ask them to focus on how the story
begins.
TTW introduce Babushka Baba Yaga by explaining that a Baba Yaga is a scary witchlike
creature told in Russian folklore and a babushka is known to be a grandmother. TTW ask
students to use their context clues to figure out what many Russian terms are in the text.
TTW begin to read the story and stop after the second page, asking students to discuss
with their reading buddy who is the main character of the story and what is the conflict.
TTW ask students what elements of the story they already know: main character, setting,
and conflict.
TTW ask the students what they already know about Baba Yaga’s character.
TTW continue to read the story until Baba Yaga leaves Victor and Natasha.
TTW ask reading buddies to discuss why they think Baba Yaga left Victor and Natasha
instead of telling them the truth.
After the story, TTW draw a plot mountain on the board and label it with the
introduction/exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. TTW ask the
 students who the main characters and the setting was in the story. TTW write their
responses off to the side.
TTW read off each plot element sentence to help students identify what is the
introduction/exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

*Independent Practice
TSW write down the introduction/exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and
resolution of ​Babushka Baba Yaga i​ n their plot mountain worksheets while the teacher
writes them during class discussion.
TSW work in groups of four to fill out a plot mountain worksheet of classic stories such as
The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Cinderella, The Ugly Duckling,
Little Red Riding Hood, and the Tortoise and the Hare. TSW each be given sentences to
help them complete the story.
TTW have each group present their plot mountain to the rest of the class.
Assessment
none

*Closure
TTW go over why learning elements of the plot helps us summarize the story and tell the
events in order.
TTW discuss with the students the purpose of the climax and how it affects the entire tone
of the story.

Differentiation Strategies ​(enrichment, accommodations, remediation, or by learning style).

Classroom Management Issues ​(optional)

Lesson Critique. ​To be completed following the lesson. Did your students meet the objective(s)? What part
of the lesson would you change? Why?