MY LOST DOLLAR - READING A HUMOUROUS STORY: UNIT LESSON PLAN

This Unit Lesson Plan is perfect for teaching Reading Comprehension through a Humourous Story - My Lost Dollar by Stephen Butler Leacock. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.

After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:

• Find the meaning of the challenging words, phrases and expressions in the story.
• Identify the setting elements and the characteristic features of the main characters in the story.
• Apply textual clues to answer the retrieval, inferential and authorial technique questions.
• Analyse the story to find its plot elements – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
• Evaluate the text to find its story elements – genre, message, speaker, point of view, tone, conflict type, authorial techniques, plot type, language register, purpose and style.
• Write a summary, make a character description and create a critical appreciation of the story.

This Download Includes:

• EXERCISE 1: Find the meaning of certain expressions: words and phrases in the story.
• EXERCISE 2: Answer the following questions to recall the meaning of certain expressions in the story.
• EXERCISE 3: Follow the setting element’s template to identify the setting elements to describe the setting of the story.
• EXERCISE 4: Follow the character description guide for the characterisation of the main characters of the story.
• EXERCISE 5: Answer the characterisation questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension.
• EXERCISE 6: Use the character description guide for the characterisation of the main characters of the story.
• EXERCISE 7: Answer the following retrieval questions.
• EXERCISE 8: Answer the following inferential questions.
• EXERCISE 9: Follow Freytag’s Pyramid to identify plot elements to develop the plot of the story.
• EXERCISE 10: Answer the following questions to demonstrate your understanding of the plot elements.
• EXERCISE 11: Follow the story analysis guide to identify the story elements.
• EXERCISE 12: Answer the following questions to demonstrate your understanding of story elements.
• EXERCISE 13: Answer the following questions to demonstrate your understanding of authorial techniques.
• EXERCISE 14: Demonstrate the mastery of comprehension by answering following questions.
• EXERCISE 15: Answer the following comprehension questions.