Read+Aloud+Lesson

// · Dance at Grandpa’s// By Laura Ingalls Wilder · Drawing paper · Crayons || · Students will be able to comprehend the story enough that they will be able to retell it, with or without pictures. · Students will be able to draw a picture about the story too. · //GLEC Standard:// o R.CM.00.01 begin to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections and comparisons by activating prior knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and experience to ideas in text through oral and written responses. o R.CM.00.03 begin to make connections across texts by making meaningful predictions based on illustrations or portions of texts. || · Introduce myself to the students · I am going to read you a book today. I want you to listen really hard, because when I am finished I am going to ask you, if you can retell the story. o Do you know what retelling the story means? · I am also going to ask you to draw a picture for me about the story, your choice on what you draw. Then we get to share the picture with each other in our group. · Have either of you been to a party where there are a lot of people? Was it a picnic, a baseball game? What was it? · How did you arrive at the party? Was it by boat, plane, car, or wagon? · Look at the cover of this book, do you think this story took place today or did it take place a long time ago? || · Today I am going to read you a story about a Dance at Grandpa’s · First, do a walkthrough of the pictures with the students and discuss what they see. · Second, read the story asking them questions along the way. o Do either of you have a cabin that is made out of logs? o Do you think Pa is going to play music at the party? o How do you get from place to place? Do you go by car, bike, or walk? o What do you think Grandma is making on the stove? o Do either of you have a baby sister or brother? o What instrument is Pa playing? o Look at the picture, does someone have a fish face? Why do you think that is? || · Ask the student’s what we are going to do when I am finished reading the book to them o They are going to retell the story to me (with or without the pictures) · Ask the student’s what they will do following the retelling of the story o Draw a picture about the story || · Ask the students which one wants to go first and retell the story to me. While me and the other student listens. Once they have both retold the story. Give them a piece of drawing paper and allow them to draw a picture about the story for you. Asking them to dictate a sentence about the picture, so that it can be written down. || · Allow the students to retell the story to me, one at a time. As well as, allow them time to share their picture with me and their peer, and dictate to both me and their peer what the picture is showing. || · Student is able to dictate back to me the story with or without the picture, as well as, illustrate a picture about the story. ||
 * **Grade Level:** Kindergarten || **Time Required:** 40 minutes ||
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