One * Two * Three * Story

Submitted by: Jodi McGill, Caughman Road Elementary

Grade Level: Second    Subject: Language Arts

Core Curriculum Objective:  Sequence/organize events and/or steps in a process using dramatizations, retellings, pictures, charts, and media. (2CM5)

State Standards:  Reading/Literature: Demonstrate comprehension of fiction and nonfiction selections/organize events in a story or the steps in a process in the correct order. (2IE8)

Overview: Students will participate in a interactive website on sequencing. Students will listen to stories and sequence major events in each. Students will make a pictorial representation of the events in a story.

Focus Questions: 
What happened first in the story? 
What happened next? 
What happened at the end of the story?

Time Frame: 2 Days (45 minutes each)

Resources/Materials: 
Chart paper 
Markers 
Paper, pencils 
Scissors 
Glue 
Construction paper 
Sentence strips 
Pocket chart 
Accordion Booklets for assessment activity 
Flannel board/cutouts (any fairy tale) 

Books: 
The Mitten. By Jan Brett. 
The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly 

Averkey 
Classroom computers/lab 

Assessment: 
Illustration (The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly): 

2 points: Students showed 4 events in the correct sequence from the story. 
0 points: Students did not show 4 events in the correct sequence from the story.

Accordion Book (The Mitten): 

2 points: Students showed all animals in the correct sequence from the story. 
1 point: Students showed 4 animals in an adequate sequence from the story. 
0 points: Students did not show the animals in the correct sequence from the story.

Instructional Activities: 

1. The teacher will call the students to a reading area. The flannel board and cutouts for a familiar fairy tale (* or story of your choice) should be readily available. The teacher will read or tell the story using the flannel board pieces. *(The 3 Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Bears are among the sets available through Media Services). As the teacher advances through the story, she should point to flannel board pieces that have already occurred in the story. At the conclusion of the story, the teacher will highlight the sequence of events that took place in the story.

2. Have different students recall orally the events in order from the fairy tale. They should be reminded to use the flannel board display.

3. The teacher will ask the students to recall what they do first thing in the morning before they come to school. The teacher will list any ideas given by the students on chart paper. When all ideas have been recorded, the students will label them in the correct order of how most students get ready for school in the morning. (limit the steps to 5 )

4. The teacher will read the story, The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly to the class. The teacher will lead a discussion following the story; noting the sequence of events in the story. Students will echo read the story with the teacher. The teacher will prepare sentence strips for each of the items that the Old Lady Swallowed in the story. She will have the students recall the different things and place them randomly in the pocket chart. Then she will have the students come up to the pocket chart and rearrange the sentence strips so as to re-create the correct sequence of the story events.

5. Students will complete a 4 step illustration of the story, The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.The teacher will distribute drawing paper to the students to fold into 4 boxes. The students will number the boxes 1-4. They will recall the events of the story and use the information on the pocket chart to draw pictures that show the correct order of events from the story.

Day Two:

1. The teacher will gather the students in a circle on the floor to play the game We're Going on a Bear Hunt. (See songs on ) 

www.teachervision.com 

Students will try to remember the pattern and sequence of the story and the creative movements shown by the teacher.

2. The teacher will utilize the averkey and classroom computer to access 

www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/binky/story/scramble. 

Students will play the interactive game with Marc Brown's Arthur characters in a 3 step sequencing activity.

3. The teacher should visit www.janbrett.com and print out the section on put the animals in the mitten. The teacher will share the book, The Mitten . Careful attention needs to be called to the illustrations in this story. The teacher will lead a discussion of the animals and the mitten throughout the story.

4. At the conclusion of the story, students will try to recall the animals that found their way into the mitten. Using the sheets from the website, students will cut out the mittens and all the animals. On the accordion books, students will glue the mittens on both ends of the book. The animals will be places in the correct sequence from the story within the accordion book.

Enrichment Activities:

1. Many other activities on The Mitten and other stories by the author are available at www.janbrett.com All address the reading strategies.

2. Have students complete beginning, middle, and ending graphic organizers on their independent reading materials.