Teacher-Created Activity

CKLA Unit 3 “Different Lands, Similar Stories” Strand Listening & Learning Grade 1 Activity “Domain 3 Jeopardy”

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION This activity was designed to be used in conjunction with Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) grade 1, unit 3. For more information about CKLA, click here. It addresses speaking & listening standards as well as provides students with practice working as a team. This activity was designed to serve as a culminating review of the domain. However, instead of waiting until the end, teachers have the option of applying this same structure to pause and review the unit in smaller chunks.

Advance Preparation: • Create an anchor chart with categories, questions, and point values (see document below). Do not include answers [in brackets] • Create teams (4–6 children per team)

Activity: Students compete 'Jeopardy' style activity by choosing categories for a specific point value. Once the category/value is selected, the teacher reads aloud the corresponding question and students talk in their teams to determine the answer. One student is the reporter in the group and shares their answer aloud. This role rotates for each turn so all students in the group get an opportunity to say an answer aloud. If the answer is correct, the team receives the corresponding points. If it is incorrect, other teams have a chance to steal and earn the points.

This activity was developed by Adrienne Williams from Center City Charter Schools (Washington, DC) Domain 3 Jeopardy

Points Characters Geography Fiction Setting Similarities

What is the same about Where does Tom the characters Who got swallowed by What country is Issun Which character proves Thumb meet the Thumbelina, Tom the oni? Boshi from? Issun Boshi is fiction? robbers? Thumb, and Issun Boshi? 100

[Issun Boshi] [Japan] [Oni] [Mayor’s house] [They are all small, the size of a thumb/finger] How did Tom Thumb Identify 2 reasons Hu Gu What was the same stop the robbers? Who Po is fiction. Where does Mother about all the parents in scared them away? What country is Tom Toad take the little people stories? Thumb from? [Lady turning into a Thumbelina?

200 [He made a lot of noise tiger, talking animal, [They couldn’t have so the servants woke [England] other reasonable [To a lily pad in their children but wanted up and they scared answers] home pond] some] them away.]

How did Issun Boshi How does Little Red Which characters got Who helped Tom What country is change at the end of the Riding Hood get to her swallowed? What Thumb get back home? Tselane from? story? Grandma’s house? swallowed them? 300 [Wolf] [Botswana] [He grew to the size of a [By traveling through [Issun Boshi-Oni, Tom normal person] the woods] Thumb-Cow]

Identify 4 reasons why How were Hu Gu Po, Which stories come Cinderella is fiction. Little Red Riding Hood, What two animals from the continent of What city does Issun and Tselane similar? wanted to marry Europe? [fairy godmother, Boshi travel to? Thumbelina? 400 animals turning into [They all had characters [Billy Beg, Tom people, pumpkin [Kyoto] who didn’t listen to their [Toad, Mole] Thumb, Thumbelina, carriage, transforming parents and something Cinderella] clothes] bad happened.]

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