Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.
Mind-mapping practice
Objective: To give practice in writing their own story map.
Activity: The students will choose their solution to the turkey's problem and create a story map for that solution. The students will write in sentence form the solution on pre-cut multicolored turkey tails.
Assessment: Teacher checks for appropriate responses to the story map elements (who, what, when, where, how). Teacher checks for proper sentence structure on paper tail.