Full truth, or an exaggeration? How can you tell when a storyteller is exaggerating a story? Readers analyze a story told by Hortensia, and identify the exaggerative language she uses. Then, learners write their own narrative story using a lot of exaggeration to get their point across. Who will it fool?

Concepts

storytelling, storytellers, Narrative Writing

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Print a class set or put learners into groups/pairs and give each group one sheet of the quotes
• Cut each sheet into the paragraphs and give each learner one paragraph for highlighting
• Pre-read and find the place in chapter 10 of the book that the resource says to stop reading for the starter portion of the activity

Classroom Considerations

• Requires the class to reference "Throwing the Hammer" in Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Provide highlighters for class members

Pros

• Allows collaborative thinking
• Strengthens the ability to identify exaggeration in language

Cons

• No rubric is provided for the writing

Common Core

W.3.3.a W.4.3.a W.5.3.a SL.3.4 SL.4.4 L.3.3.a L.3.5.a L.3.5.c L.4.3.a L.5.3.a W.6.3.a W.7.3.a L.6.3.a L.7.3.a