TP 3

Learning Activity

This activity is a take on the activity of “Two truths and a lie”. This third-grade reading activity will be for students to independently read the book, There's a Frog In My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me by Loreen Leedy. After the first reading, students will select and write down two examples of non-literal language and one example of literal language on their own index cards. Students will be placed in groups and together they will decide which of the sentences are literal and which ones are nonliteral. Example sentences would be, literal – It is raining really hard!

Nonliteral – It’s raining cats and dogs!

After identifying the accurate non-literal examples, as a group, students will create a literal translation for each one. They will share out with the class. Comment by Katy Sell: This activity is right on target, because it is age appropriate and still aligns to the reading standard listed, about determining the meaning of literal and non-literal language examples from an actual text.

Explanation

With this activity the students can use their prior knowledge and their own thought processes to make decisions. Doing that will allow the students to think of the sentences beyond their basic definitions, and their own reasoning to decide which sentences are literal and which contain idioms. Writing down the examples also helps students to strengthen their fine motor skills. Additionally, putting students into group learning situations is the best way to foster active critical thinking, because it allows for continuous feedback from peers and the teacher (Cooper, 1995). At this age, students still enjoy being hands-on and social interaction is still important (Ormrod & Jones, 2018). Comment by Katy Sell: This student also accurately explains how this activity supports physical development such as fine motor skills. One activity in your assignment must contain a physical development element. Comment by Katy Sell: Research support is effectively used to explain how any of the complex cognitive processes in our textbook are strengthened. In this case, critical thinking. Remember, these include: self-regulation, metacognition, transfer, problem solving, creativity, and critical thinking.