Bunnicula discussion

Mini Lesson Mentor Text 2

Citation of the book in APA format:
Howe, J., & Howe, D. (1979). Bunnicula. (A. Daniel, Illus.). New York: Atheneum.

Grade Level(s) the lesson: 4th grade

Introduce the Topic: The topic of the mini lesson is point of view. I will start of the lesson by describing point of view. I will have students discuss how everyone has a different point view. By reading books from different points of view we can learn to understand how other people think and feel. Telling stories from different points of view is one way an author makes a story interesting.

Share Examples: I will read the first chapter of the literary text Bunnicula. We will identify the point of view by examining the text and illustrations. Students will read examples from the text to support their ideas. We will discuss why reading a story from a dog’s point of view is an interesting twist.

Provide Information: First person point of view is explained by the narrator as one of the characters in the story. I will explain to students that stories written in first person use pronouns like “I”, “me”, and “my”. While in third person narratives the narrator is an observer, not a character in the story. Third person narratives use pronouns like “she”, “he”, and “they”.

Supervise Practice: I will provide graphic organizers for the students to use. The first part of the graphic organizer will be a place for students to write what happened in the story. Then they will re-write the sentence in first person as Bunnicula. In the second box they will write from a third person point of view.

Assess Learning: Students will need to write three sentences from the point of view of one of the pets from Bunnicula. They will then have to re-write those sentences in third person.

Resources:
This lesson was inspired by ReadWorks.org. Retrieved from https://www.readworks.org/lessons/gra...

Howe, J., & Howe, D. (1979). Bunnicula. (A. Daniel, Illus.). New York: Atheneum.