Lesson Plan 2 - Sequencing/Story Events
Objectives:
*Students will be able to:
*Identify vocabulary words
* Make a prediction of the story
*Put the story in sequential order
*Identify story elements (Title, Author, Setting, Characters, Problem, Events One, Two and Three and Solution) by using a story map
Materials:
Book: Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Story Map
Sentence Strips
Chart Paper
Activities:
1. Introduce vocabulary (weather, atmosphere temperature, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere, cumulus, stratus, cirrus, nimbus , rain, air, town, pancake, prediction, varied, clouds, report and realize
2. Students will go online to The Dictionary Plus to find synonyms and antonyms for their vocabulary words.
3. Students will preview and make a prediction about the story. As you read the story have students predict what each animal will say and then compare it with the story.
4. Read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs to the class and ask comprehension questions as you go along. (example: What was Grandpa making? What "object" was flying around the kitchen? What was the name of the tiny town? Can it really rain cloudy with a chance of Meatballs? What is the main idea of the story?)
5. Using sentence strips, discuss the events in the story and the students will put them in sequential order.
6. Using a chart paper, discuss the story elements that are needed for their story map.
7. Students will do a story map:
Title:
Author:
Setting:
Characters:
Problem:
Events: One, Two and Three
Solution:
Evaluation:
Students
will put the events of the story in sequential order and teacher will
review the students'
completed story map.
Home
Learning:
Students
will go online to puzzle maker to
create a crossword puzzle with their vocabulary words. (save to a disk and bring
to school to print)
Students will use a word processor to type their vocabulary words and use the paint or draw application of a different kind of weather pattern.