“THE TALE OF THE THREE BROTHERS” By JK Rowling

Grade Level
High School / Intermediate

Skill
Reading

Anticipatory Set

Students will be asked several questions so the teacher can see how
much knowledge does the students have on what the reading is about and
who the author is.

1) Who is JK Rowling? (Joanne “Kathleen” Rowling).

2) Do you know any titles of her works?
3) Names of any character beside from Harry Potter.
4) What do you think about the phrase “be careful what you wish for”?
What does it mean for you?

After this, the tale will be introduced.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Reinforce their reading ability while reading and following the tale.

• Develop critical thinking by writing ideas of how to give a new ending to

a tale.

Instructional Input

The teacher will hand each student a copy of the reading and other with
questions in a page.

The teacher is going to ask the students to read the tale so they can follow
along and improve their reading ability.

Modeling

The teacher is going to analyze the story to see characters’ behavior and
how it affects their decisions so the students understand how every action
has a consequence.

Checking for Understanding

The teacher will ask the students to put their copies facing down and take
out the page with the questions.

The teacher will start making the questions about the tale to make sure the
students are clear with what happened in the reading

Guided Practice

The teacher will ask the students to get together in groups of 4 or 5 and
make up their own new ending to the story.

The teacher will walk around to check that everybody is participating while
creating the new ending.

Independence Practice

The teacher will ask each student to write in a page, which of the three
objects the brothers asked for do they desire the most and what would
they do with it and how they think this object would impact their lives in a
positive or negative way, as a personal opinion and then share it with the
class.

 UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ
College of Humanities
English Department

FUNDAMENTOS DE LA LENGUA INGLESA

FINAL : Reading Lesson Planning

“THE TALE OF THE THREE BROTHERS”

Presented by: Ana Kirchman

I.D. #8-926-2054

November 21st, 2019

Panama, Republic of Panama

The Tale of the Three Brothers

1) Why did Death feel cheated?

A. Because travelers used to drown in the river

B. Because she didn't like the brothers

C. Because the brothers didn't include her in making the bridge

2) What was the power of the stone Death gave to one of the brothers?
A. Making dead people dance

B. The power of killing the enemies

C. It had the power of calling Death

3) What was the cloak part of?

A. The cloak used to be part of Death's own cloak

B. It was part of the river stones

C. It was part of the brother's cloak

4) What did the oldest brother do with wand?

A. Attacked the wizards that used to be his enemies

B. Killed his brothers

C. Did a lot of magic tricks to become a magician

5) What happened with the bride of the second brother?

A. She was cold since she didn’t belong to the living world

B. She was caring loving with the second brother

C. She left and married other man

6) What did the youngest brother do to avoid Death?

A. He used to use his invisibility cloak

B. He used a magic spell

C. Stole his oldest brother’s wand to defeat death

7) What’s the message behind the story?

A. Be careful what you wish for

B. Nothing is what it seems

C. Having brothers is the best gift in the world