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A 3 page paper. In this lesson plan, Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia is used to teach vocabulary, phonics, comprehension through summarizing, and higher order thinking skills. The lesson plan provided explains how each of these is incorporated. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and downright laughter. In this story, Amelia is playing baseball. She is filling in for a player who became ill and baseball is not Amelias sport but she will try
anything. Of course, in the end Amelia Bedelia saves the day. This lesson that is appropriate for grades K-3 emphasizes the skill of summarizing the story. It involves students
learning how to use a story map and they will even have the opportunity to draw their own pictures of what is happening in parts of the story. Their pictures
will aid them in summarizing. Materials The book, Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia Chart paper. Story map. Drawing paper. Procedure Get the children hooked into the story with questions about
the story that they will be answering at the end of reading the story. The questions are written on the large chart paper: Who plays the game of baseball in
the story (students learn to identify characters)? Where is the best place to play baseball (children learn about the setting of the story)? How do you play baseball (children learn
about events in a story)? Who wins this baseball game (children learn the solution? Vocabulary Two vocabulary words are introduced: Gloomy which means joyless and puzzled which means confused.
These words will be presented to the children before the story is read. Kindergarten children will learn how to pronounce these words through a phonics lesson that focuses on blending,
initial, middle and ending sounds. Objectives Students learn how to summarize using a story map on which they will write the most important points in the story. They will also
work in small groups to read part of the story and draw appropriate pictures illustrating those main ideas. With very young children, e.g., kindergarten and even First Grade, the
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