Story Time: Characters of Color (African Amer.)

In this fun educational class we will meet to share stories with African American main characters. In each class a story will be read aloud to students with pausing points for questions and discussions. Then we will practice retelling important details from the stories and if time allows, writing a review of the story.  I will be reading the following stories: 
Come on, Rain by Karen Hesse
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville by Pat Zietlow Miller

The class format can be seen below
- Introductions and expectations
- Self Assessment of retell skills utilizing provided activity sheet
- Read Aloud with questions and connections
- Retell: Collaboratively write and/or draw the elements of a retell utilizing provided activity sheet
- Review of story utilizing provided activity sheet

This class will use some note taking as we write or draw the components of a good retell and review. Students should be able to listen to a story and recall details. They should also have experience writing sentences or drawing and labeling pictures independently.  Students will  self assess their learning with a simple rubric using emojis in the first and last class.