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ORC Resource Number #1361
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Let's Talk About Stories: Shared Discussion with Amazing Grace
Promising Practice
PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY

Through a series of literary discussions students interact with a thought-provoking story as they develop their reading, writing, oral, and critical-thinking skills. Amazing Grace, the story used in this lesson, promotes thoughtful discussions with a focus on individual interpretation that will allow students of all reading abilities to contribute. Students support their opinions with evidence from the text, prior knowledge, or personal experience. Following the discussions, students respond to the text by drawing an interpretation of Grace and her classmates or creating an original story using the characters from the story. (author/ncl)

OHIO STANDARDS
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English Language Arts Standards
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
Reading Applications: Literary Text Standard
Writing Applications Standard
NATIONAL STANDARDS
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Standards for the English Language Arts
Range of materials and purposes for reading
Purposes for using spoken, written, and visual language
RESOURCE TYPE
Instructional Resource
PRACTICE LEVEL
Promising Practice
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Grades K–2
TOPICS
English Language Arts --
Reading;
Comprehension;
Literary Response;
Writing;
Writing Applications;
Literature;
Children's Literature;
KEYWORDS
questioning;
characterization;
interpretation
Publisher: IRA/NCTE