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Introduction
Children will retell a familiar story.
Subject: Reading
Topic: retelling Gingerbread Baby
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Student Lesson name and URL:
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Standards
Addressed
List the California State Standards your lesson addresses. K 2.5. Children will retell a familiar story.
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Reading: Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
Students will have an opportunity to listen to, view, read, roleplay and produce art and food in response to the book Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett.
Instructional Objectives
- After taking a picture walk of the Gingerbread Baby students will be able to make oral statements to predict the story content.
- After reading the book, students will be able to state the names of the characters,setting and key events.
- After viewing pictures of the characters in the story, students will be able to retell the story in their own words.
- Students will be able to roleplay the part of one of the animals in the story while using masks that they have helped to create.
Student Activities
Introductory
Activity:
Day 1
Students will have an opportunity to view
the illustrations, and the book cover to predict what they think may occur
in the story and to discuss the details in the illustrations.
Following the picture walk, the teacher will read the book aloud to the students. The teacher will ask the students if they think that this story could be real or if they think that it is make-believe. A discussion will follow. The next question will be, "If a pet or person has diappeared or is lost, what steps can we take to find them?" Many suggestions will be offered. Hopefully, one idea will be to put up a poster with the individual's picture.
The activity that follows will be the creation
of a wanted poster for the Gingerbread Baby. Each student will create
their own poster. "Wanted" or "Lost" will be written in large
letters at the top of the paper. Next, students will be directed
to look closely at the cover of the book and make their own approximation
of the character.
Students will sponge paint on a tagboard gingerbreadman form. It should be around a foot tall and precut or traced on the tag prior to the activity. They may decorate the man the following day with buttons, rickrack, stickers or whatever items that you think will make a terrific gingerbread person. This could make a great bulletin board or just a fun take home project.
Children can make their own "Gingerbread House" from graham crackers cream cheese or frosting and assorted candies.
Children can work with parent-helpers to
mix and bake the "Gingerbread
Baby Recipe".
Students will have an opportunity to use the masks that they have helped to create to role-play a character in the story.
Assessment
Students will identify five
characters and tell what they did. They will demonstrate this knowledge
through verbal, written and illustrated responses.
Students will describe setting
with five specific details through verbal, written and illustrated responses.
Students will retell plot
of story for with five specfic details. This will be through verbla or
written responses.
Results
Students will be given pre and post-tests to assess prior knowledge and aquired knowledge after direct instruction on the literature and comprehension of it.
Web Resources
& Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
http://www.janbrett.com/gingerbread_baby_recipe.htm
Enabling Activity
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for your learning activity(ies) here. Also link supplementary materials
such as PDF files and /or document files.
Culminating Activity
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for your culminating activity here. Also link supplementary materials such
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Heritage Oak School
2271 Americana Dr.
Cyndy Godfrey, e-mail cgodfrey@drycreek.k12.ca.us
Last Revised:
06/30/2000 (insert and update last revision date every time you
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