� You would use a story map after reading. You complete the story map once the story or novel has been read. A teacher often reads the story aloud to the class.
� The focus of a story map is comprehension. It will also help to motivate the students. By completing a story map and identifying the key story elements a students will demonstrate their comprehension of the common elements of a story and create a visual aid to enable them to better remember a story.
Lesson Plan
Content and Topic: Math- use of Pi in a circle and the connections that underlie all content areas in mathematics
Introduction: The student will learn how to find the circumference of a circle. The student will be able to identify the connection of literacy and history in the mathematics classroom.
Readiness Activity: I am going to read aloud Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi. This will get the students motivated and focused.
Instruction of Concept: I will make an overhead transparency and duplicate copies of the story map. On the overhead transparency I will model to students how to complete a story map. We will discuss that basic outline of the story in terms of its common elements.
Guided Practice: I will divide the class into several smaller groups to discuss the story map. Each group will fill out a blank story map. I will be guided and monitoring the students with any questions that they might have.
Closure: I will have drawn a big blank story map on a poster board. Each group will then come to the front of the room and fill in one key element of the story, and explain why they decided that would be the best answer.
Independent Practice: I will have several short stories that are relevant to mathematics prepared to handout to the students. Each group will receive a different short story to become an expert on. Students will