Teacher Name: Amanda Short Lesson Title: The Day the Crayons Quit

Subject: Identifying Point of View Day: Thursday Date: March 10, 2021
Learning Outcomes (Objectives that focus on learning.) Vocabulary Materials
Students will be able to: Identify points of view of different Point of view, perspective, The Day the Crayons Quit
characters in the story. narrator. book, different color crayons
for each group, paper, point
of view learning activity,
letter writing activity,
document camera, Smart
CCSS Standards Board.
Colorado Language Arts Third Grade, Standard 2. Reading
for All Purposes
Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions Technology?
contribute to the sequence of events (Colorado Department of ☐Y X N
Education, 2020).

Colorado Language Arts Third Grade, Standard 3. Writing

and Composition.
Write opinion pieces on topic or texts, supporting a point of
view with reasons (Colorado Department of Education,
2020).
Prior Knowledge (What should the students already know?) Questions (What questions will you ask for clarification?)
Students should already understand what each of the vocabulary - Do they understand what point of view means and
words for the activity mean. They have prior experience how to find it?
identifying point of view and should understand what this concept - Do they understand the expectations for the
entails. assignment?

Anticipatory Set (What will hook students into the lesson?) Mini Lesson (I Do) ☐Higher Level Thinking?
Groups of students will each be given a different color of crayon I will read aloud the story, The Day the Crayons Quit, as I
and asked to draw a picture of their choice on a piece of paper of a read, I will ask students to listen closely to try to identify
person, place, or things. Once their drawings are complete, each color’s point of view.
students will discuss what they drew. We will then try to identify
similarities, differences, and discuss why students drew what they
did and whether the color of the crayon affected their decision.
Literature? Title: The Day the Crayons Quit

Guided Activity (We Do) ☐Students Appropriately Grouped? Second Check for Understanding (How will you check?)
Following the story, we will discuss point of view in further detail. After discussing point of view and personification, I will
We will also discuss what personification means and use the text ask students if they have any questions regarding how to
to understand how the crayons were given human like qualities. find this information from a text.
We will then discuss how the author gave the crayons human like
qualities in order to help readers see things from the crayon’s point
of view.
Independent Practice (You Do) Cross-Curricular Connections Learning Centers/Differentiated Instruction
Students will: Be given a graphic This activity incorporates both reading Gifted and Talented: The two GT students
organizer on which they will be and writing. It also encourages critical will be given an additional learning activity
expected to identify the point of view thinking skills. comparing points of view of different color
of each color of crayon and provide crayons and identifying similar points of
reasons for their answers. They will view as well as differing points of view.
also be given a writing prompt and Lower performing students (IEP): The
asked to pick a crayon color they three IEP Students will only be expected to
would like to be and write a letter to write a one, 5-sentence, paragraph for the
Duncan as if they were that crayon.
They will be expected to write about letter-writing activity.
how they feel about being that color,
what their point of view would be,
what they want Duncan to know, and
describe things that they would like or
dislike about being that color.

Assessment (How will the learning Homework English Language Learners: No

outcomes be formally assessed?) differentiation is necessary for the two
Each student will turn in their No homework will be assigned for this ELL’s.
completed point of view learning lesson.
activity as well as their letter. These
learning activities will be graded and
will act as a formal assessment of this
lesson.