Activity Overview
In this activity, students will be provided a question or prompt to answer using textual evidence. The prompt here is, “How do animals help humans? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.”
The three examples provided include:
- Animals provide company for people; Mr. Popper realizes he is much happier with his pet penguins.
- Animals bring out the best in people; Mrs. Popper didn’t care for having the pets, but found herself enjoying them.
- Animals are very interesting; Mr. Popper reads about how one penguin gets pushed over the edge to check for danger.
Template and Class Instructions
(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)
Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that answers the prompt using at least three examples from Mr. Popper's Penguins. Click on "Add / Delete Cells" to change the number of examples.
- Type the question into the central black box.
- Type a response to the question in your own words in the title box.
- Think about examples from the text that support your answer.
- Type text evidence in the description boxes. Paraphrase or quote directly from the text.
- Illustrate each example using scenes, characters, items, etc.
Lesson Plan Reference
- CCSS: RL.5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support from Text | Examples chosen fully support the answer to the question. | Some of the examples answer the question correctly, but not all. | Most of the examples do not support the answer to the question. |
| Quote / Text | Evidence provided from the text is properly quoted or paraphrased. | There are some minor mistakes in the quote / description from text. | Quote or paraphrase is incomplete or confusing. |
| Illustration of Examples | Ideas are well organized. Images clearly illustrate the examples from the text. | Ideas are organized. Most images help to show the examples from the text. | Ideas are not well organized. Images are difficult to understand. |
Activity Overview
In this activity, students will be provided a question or prompt to answer using textual evidence. The prompt here is, “How do animals help humans? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.”
The three examples provided include:
- Animals provide company for people; Mr. Popper realizes he is much happier with his pet penguins.
- Animals bring out the best in people; Mrs. Popper didn’t care for having the pets, but found herself enjoying them.
- Animals are very interesting; Mr. Popper reads about how one penguin gets pushed over the edge to check for danger.
Template and Class Instructions
(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)
Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that answers the prompt using at least three examples from Mr. Popper's Penguins. Click on "Add / Delete Cells" to change the number of examples.
- Type the question into the central black box.
- Type a response to the question in your own words in the title box.
- Think about examples from the text that support your answer.
- Type text evidence in the description boxes. Paraphrase or quote directly from the text.
- Illustrate each example using scenes, characters, items, etc.
Lesson Plan Reference
- CCSS: RL.5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support from Text | Examples chosen fully support the answer to the question. | Some of the examples answer the question correctly, but not all. | Most of the examples do not support the answer to the question. |
| Quote / Text | Evidence provided from the text is properly quoted or paraphrased. | There are some minor mistakes in the quote / description from text. | Quote or paraphrase is incomplete or confusing. |
| Illustration of Examples | Ideas are well organized. Images clearly illustrate the examples from the text. | Ideas are organized. Most images help to show the examples from the text. | Ideas are not well organized. Images are difficult to understand. |
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