Grade K ELA

Lesson TitleFun With Fiction (This lesson focuses on the element of character. Follow up lessons will focus on the additional narrative elements.)

Connecticut Standards (CCSS)

CC.K.RL.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

CC.K.RL.3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

CC.K.SL.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

CC.K.SL.6: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Lesson Objectives in Language Students will Understand

With prompting and support, students will identify the story element of “characters.”

Timeline 1-3 days per story element

Description of Learning Tasks/ Activities

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remember and UnderstandWebb’s DOK Level 1: Recall and Reproduction

In a whole group setting, model how to identify the character in a whole group story that is read aloud. Students will identify the character and then be able to describe the character.

Guide the discussion using questions such as: Who is in the story? Who are the characters? Who is this story mostly about? Describe the character ____. Explain who is in the story. Using evidence from the story, what makes you think that?

Using literature selected by the teachers, students will work in small groups to practice identifying and describing characters.

Independently, students will listen to various stories and identify a favorite character, draw a picture of this character and describe why they like that character.

Materials, Resources, Technology Needed(Based on LEA resources)

Classic fairy talesBooks that provide strong aspects of a character’s development

Prior Learning, Connections, Student Needs or Interests, Common Misconceptions

Understanding that some characters are more important than others within a story.

Instructional Strategies/ Grouping

Modeling whole group using think-aloudsGuided practice and apply application in small groupsIndependent application

Suggested Differentiation

Enrichment Suggestions: Using more complex texts, students write a sentence identifying and describing the character in the story.Reteaching Suggestions: Using less complex texts, prompt students to go back into the book to identify the character. Ask probing questions about the

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Grade K ELA

character(s).

Cross disciplinary Connections

Formative Assessment processes (including student self-assessment)

Teacher created rubric, can assess student’s ability to identify characters within a story.

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