A comprehension skill that we used with the story,
The Last Dragon, was to work with a partner and fill out a plot chart. A plot includes characters, settings, problems, events, and solutions- kind of like a summary. Students were given six boxes with the following words in them and they had to fill in the rest. You can ask your child to summarize the story for you by using these starter words.
- Somebody
- wanted
- so
- but
- so
- In the end,
The following is an example of what one group wrote:
- Somebody named Peter went to Chintatown.
- Peter wanted the last dragon in the store.
- So Peter got the last dragon from Mr. Ping.
- But the dragon had holes and no eyes so it was blind.
- So Peter went to different stores to fix the dragona nd make it better.
- In the end, Peter adn his great aunt fixed the dragon so Peter could celebrate New Years.
It was fun when we did the plot chart, because we had to be spacific about what words we use. It is kind of like a summary!
ReplyDeleteWe did this so we could understand and remember. This was so fun because we had to read it out loud with a partner.
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