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:  The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

  Story Map

Sentence Strips

  Chart Paper

Activities:

1.  Introduce vocabulary (rain forest, Amazon, kapok, howling, creatures, trunk, ax, lulled, boa constrictor, ancestors, generations, desert, canopy, smoldering, oxygen, ruins, pollinate, wither, understory, plodding, scampered, slithered, destroy, disappear, miracles, tropical, and beauty)

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 The Great Kapok Tree to the class and ask comprehension questions as you go along.       (example:  How many men walked into the rainforest?  What put the smaller man to sleep?  Who was the second animal to speak to the man?  The story takes place in which rainforest of the world? and 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 create a story map:

                Title:

                Author:

                Setting:       

                Characters:

                Problem:

                Events:  One, Two and Three

                Solution:

8.  Once the students have finished their work, you may want to printout a rainforest crossword puzzle for them to complete.

Evaluation:

  Students will put the events of the story in sequential order.

  Students completed story map.

Home Learning:

  Students will go online to Discovery Kids to create a crossword puzzle with their vocabulary words. (save to a disk and bring to school to print)

   Students will use word processor to type their vocabulary words and use the paint or draw application to draw a picture of a rainforest animal.