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Author’s Purpose
How the Author Reveals the Plot
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• Homework
• Foldable
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Lesson 6
How the
Author
Reveals the
Plot
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Lesson Plan 6 – How the Author Reveals the Plot
Objective
Students will be able to answer questions about how the author reveals the plot.
Teacher Note: This lesson is for text with a linear plot structure. There are many higher-
level questions about how the author reveals the plot on standardized assessments. This
lesson is created so that students have a visual (foldable) to use when reading.
Whole Group (mini-lesson)

Teacher will model using the foldable on The Lion and the Mouse (Model Text 1).
Steps:
1. Have students fold their foldable (follow picture directions)
2. Read the text aloud (have students follow along either silently or chorally).
3. Re-read the The Lion and the Mouse again. This time, fill in the graphic organizer as you
go (use the top of the strips. Put in the actual characters, problem, climax and
solution).
4. Then, go through each flap and go back to the text to figure out what the author said
that helped you know what to put down. For example: For the problem in The Lion and
the Mouse, you should have put “The lion was stuck in the hunter’s net.” On the inside
of this flap you should have put, “In the text the author said, ‘he was unable to free
himself’ and ‘he filled the forest with an angry roar.’ Those details let me know it was
a problem.”
Partner or Small Group

1. Students will practice using the foldable in partners using The Wind and the Sun (model
text 2). Each student should have his own foldable.
Independent Work/Homework
Have students use the foldable on any classroom text of your choice. This can also be used
for a chapter of a novel.
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LESSON 6 – Model Text 1
The Lion and the Mouse

Aesop’s Fable

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head res5ng on his paws. A
5mid li9le Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and
haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the
Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the 5ny creature to kill her.

"Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I
will surely repay you.”

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him.
But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.

Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was
caught in the toils of a hunter's net. Unable to free himself, he filled the
forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly
found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes
that bound him, she gnawed it un5l it parted, and soon the Lion was
free.

"You laughed when I said I would repay you," said the Mouse. "Now
you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion."
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LESSON 6 – Model Text 2
The Wind and the Sun

Aesop’s Fables
The wind and the sun argued one day over which one was the stronger.
Spotting a man man traveling on the road, they sported a challenge to
see which one could remove the coat from the man's back the quickest.
The wind began. He blew strong gusts of air, so strong that the man
could barely walk against them. But the man clutched his coat tight
against him. The wind blew harder and longer, and the harder the wind
blew, the tighter the man held his coat against him. The wind blew
until he was exhausted, but he could not remove the coat from the
man's back.
It was now the sun's turn. He gently sent his beams upon the
traveler. The sun did very little, but quietly shone upon his head and
back until the man became so warm that he took off his coat and
headed for the nearest shade tree.
3
climax
falling ac5on
rising ac5on/
conflict
Introduc5on of
characters resolu5on
and problem conclusion
Foldable Assembly Directions
Picture #1: Picture #2:
Fold long Cut the
ways on four
the solid doCed
black line. lines to
the center.
Picture #4: On

the opposite
Picture #3: Fill side of the flap
in the plot write what the
elements on author did that
the lead you to
understand
appropriate each plot
flaps on the element. Hint:
front. Note: They are
The flaps are looking for:
directly above words the
author uses,
one element figuraKve
of the plot language,
diagram. mood/tone,
foreshadowing
, …

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The Lion and the Mouse

The Wind and the Sun

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