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.

Have the children list three hard things Miranda had to do.

Objective: To elicit from the children the pertinent details of the story.

Activity: Have the children list three hard things Miranda had to do. Then have them divide a piece of paper in half, title it “Persistence” and draw on one side a picture of Miranda being persistent and on the other side a picture of her mother being persistent.

Assessment: Details in the drawings that indicate the story as well as the notion of persistence.