ECUG 3071
Storybook Lesson Plan
Name: Melissa Oceguera
Time:
30-45 Minutes
Title:
The Little Red Hen
Grade: 2nd Grade
Georgia Performance Standards:
ELA2R4
Grade: 2
Description: ELA2R4 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning
from grade-level text. The student
Elements:
e. Summarizes text content.
m. Recognizes the basic elements of a variety of genres (e.g., poetry, fables,
folktales).
(georgiastandards.org)
Relevance: This lesson is a step in the process of teaching children how to retell
stories by properly sequencing the events. The process allows for the children to
see a story modeled and also gives them a chance to tell the same story in the
correct sequence. This lesson will broaden the students’ knowledge of genres of
literature and sequence of events.
Goals: Students will be able to join in and say repeated phrases in unison,
participate in holding up stick puppets during character dialogue, and order
event cards in the correct sequential order of the story. After the large group
activities, the students will be able to independently sequence the four major
events in the story with 85% accuracy.
Pre-Requisite: Students will be able to sit down and listen to storybook sharing.
Students are able to respond to questions asked about the story.
Objective:
 Students will be able to follow the story and hold up stick puppets
during character dialogue.
 Students will be able to make predictions as to what is going to
happen next in the story.
 Students will be able to sequence the events in the story using event
cards
Evaluation: The students will be evaluated based on their performance with the
independent practice, sequencing sentence strips Also, during the large group
activities the teacher will be able to recognize problems through the students’
participation.
Materials:
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Storybook: The Little Red Hen
Stick Puppets: hen, dog, cat, mouse
Story event cards
Digital Projector/ white board
Sequence sentence strips
Hen-shaped paper
Glue/scissors
Procedures:
Teacher will have the children sit together on a rug or in a comfortable spot
in the room. Teacher will have all materials ready for storytelling including the
stick puppets
Anticipatory Set: Teacher will begin by saying that things happen in a certain
order, or “sequence”. For example, before I came to school today, I got out
of bed. “What’s something you did before you came to school today?” Note
that it would be silly if we said we came to school before getting out of bed,
etc.
Instructional Input: teacher will choose four children to be in charge of the
four puppets: hen, cat, dog, and mouse. Teacher will instruct children to hold
up their puppets when the story is talking about their character or the
character is engaging in dialogue. The teacher will tell the children to listen
for the order in which things happen in the story. Teacher will begin telling the
story. As the characters are introduced to the story, the students will begin to
recite what will happen next. For example: “Not I,” said the cat… The
teacher should use various as well as enthusiastic voice tones to tell the story.
The teacher should observe and listen to see if the children are noticing the
repeated phrase and can predict when it is coming.
Modeling/Guided Practice: As a class, the children will sequence four
paragraphs from the story using index cards with the paragraphs and a
digital projector/white board. The teacher will guide the students through
finding the first event. Students will be told to talk to their “partner” to discuss
which event is first, next, ect. Then, one student will be called upon to answer
and the rest of the students will show their approval or disapproval of the
answer by showing a thumbs-up or thumbs down. This will continue until all
the events are in the correct order.
Independent Practice: students will independently sequence the events of
the story by gluing sentence strips containing the events in the story onto a
hen-shaped paper.
Sentences to be sequenced on hen-shaped paper:
The Little Red Hen used the wheat to bake a loaf of bread.
The Little Red Hen planted grains of wheat
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat and took it to the mill.
The Little Red Hen took care of the wheat by watering it.
Accommodations:
Teacher will assist any student who might need extra assistance.
Enrichment:
In small groups, teacher will provide event cards for them to retell the story in the
correct sequential order to the members in their groups.
Appendices: Worksheet, puppets, sequence cards
Reflection: Overall, the lesson went well. However, a couple of changes could
be made to improve the lesson. During the independent practice activity, a
couple of children whose reading levels are below grade level, needed
assistance reading the sentence strips. They also had difficulty with the multi-step
process of cutting and pasting. In the future, I could have the sentence strips
pre-cut so that these children could have extra time to focus on the activity
itself. Even though the lower level students took a little longer, all of the students
completed the activity with 100% accuracy. They were all listened attentively
and participated in all the activities. When she got home with the grains of wheat,
the Little Red Hen
asked, "Who will plant these grains of wheat?"
"Not I," said the mouse.
"Not I," said the cat.
"Not I," said the dog.
After the grains had sprouted, the Little Red Hen asked, "Who will
help me take care of the wheat?"
"Not I," said the mouse.
"Not I," said the cat.
"Not I," said the dog.
When the wheat was cut and threshed, the Little Red Hen asked,
"Who will help me take this wheat to the mill?"
"Not I," said the mouse.
"Not I," said the cat.
"Not I," said the dog.
When her wonderful bread came out of the oven, the Little Red Hen
asked, "Who will help me eat this bread?"
"I will!" said the mouse.
"I will!" said the cat.
"I will!" said the dog.
The Little Red Hen used the wheat to bake a loaf of bread.
The Little Red Hen planted grains of wheat
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat and took it to the mill.
The Little Red Hen took care of the wheat by watering it.
The Little Red Hen used the wheat to bake a loaf of bread.
The Little Red Hen planted grains of wheat
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat and took it to the mill.
The Little Red Hen took care of the wheat by watering it.
The Little Red Hen used the wheat to bake a loaf of bread.
The Little Red Hen planted grains of wheat
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat and took it to the mill.
The Little Red Hen took care of the wheat by watering it.
The Little Red Hen used the wheat to bake a loaf of bread.
The Little Red Hen planted grains of wheat
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat and took it to the mill.
The Little Red Hen took care of the wheat by watering it.
The Little Red Hen used the wheat to bake a loaf of bread.
The Little Red Hen planted grains of wheat
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat and took it to the mill.
The Little Red Hen took care of the wheat by watering it.
The Little Red Hen used the wheat to bake a loaf of bread.
The Little Red Hen planted grains of wheat
The Little Red Hen cut the wheat and took it to the mill.
The Little Red Hen took care of the wheat by watering it.