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Grade 1 Universal Design for Learning

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The framework table below includes ideas on how to customize and adjust a 1st Grade lesson that focuses on discriminating between fiction and nonfiction genres. The lesson includes the objective 1.2.R.2. Instruction includes reading a fiction and nonfiction book about animals. After reading both books students will participate in brainstorming how they can tell which book is real information and which is make believe. The teacher will explicitly teach the vocabulary terms fiction and nonfiction. Various activities over the two day lesson will enforce the concept of recognizing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction books. As the teacher prepared the lesson, the framework below guided their planning and helped ensure all students would have access and be able to participate in a meaningful, challenging learning opportunity.

 

 

  Engagement
Representation
Action & Expression

 

 

Access

Recruiting Interest

 

  • Discuss the goal of students being able to tell the difference in fiction and nonfiction genres.

  • Brainstorm ideas of real and make believe.

  • Create anchor charts for real and make believe stories with pictures. 

Perception

 

  • Allow students to sort animal cards into real or make-believe categories (horse, dog, cat vs. unicorn, dragon, troll, etc.)

  • Display examples of fiction and nonfiction books in the classroom library or storytime corner. 

Physical Action

 

  • Engage in imaginative play with figures from a book. 

  • Sort pictures into real and make believe. 

 

 

Build

Sustaining Effort & Persistence

 

  • Ask open ended questions about how to know if a text is fiction or nonfiction.

  • Utilize multiple levels of texts.

  • Have students describe elements of fiction/nonfiction to a partner. 

Language & Symbols

 

  • Introduce the vocabulary of fiction and nonfiction.

  • Update anchor chart to include the terms fiction and nonfiction.

  • Have students sort cards of animal actions into fiction or nonfiction. (e.g., a bird building a nest, a cat driving a car, a dog barking, etc.). 

Expression & Communication

 

  • Students tell or retell a fiction story using sentence stems. 

  • Students name facts from a nonfiction text.

  • Students create a video explaining fiction and nonfiction. 

 

 

Internalize

Self Regulation

 

  • Allow students time to become familiar with the texts before asking them to focus on determining the genre.

  • Give students immediate and specific feedback during the lesson. 

Comprehension

 

  • Students create a graphic organizer for fiction and nonfiction genres.

  • Provide repeated practice for students to determine the genre of shared texts. 

Executive Function

 

  • Complete a Venn diagram comparing fictional and nonfictional characters.

  • Students produce an illustration that could be used in a fiction or a nonfiction text. 

 

 

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