Lesson Plan

Once Upon A Time

Emily Ross
Kindergarten

Common Core Standards:

Reading Standards for Literature K–5
-Key Ideas and details:
RI.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
RI.K.2 With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.K.3 With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals,
events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K–5)
-Print Concepts
1. RF.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. a. Follow
words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. b. Recognize that spoken words
are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. c. Understand that
words are separated by spaces in print. d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase
letters of the alphabet.
-Phonological Awareness
RF.K.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes (sounds). a.
Recognize and produce rhyming words. b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables
in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final phonemes (sounds) in three-
phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. * (This does not include CVCs
ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) e. Add or substitute individual phonemes (sounds) in simple, one-
syllable words to make new words.
-Fluency
RF.K.4 Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Speaking and Listening Standards K–5
-COMPREHENSION AND COLLABORATION
SL.K.1 Participate in collaborative conversations about kindergarten topics and texts with
diverse partners in small and larger groups. a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
(e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under
discussion). b. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Lesson Summary:

In this lesson students will work on reading skills as well as comprehension skills by reading
different Fairy Tales. Students will work on compare and contrasting skill as they compare the
written work to a short you tube movie of that Fairy Tale.

Estimated Duration:

This lesson will take approximately 100 min and will be broken up over four days. Each lesson
lasting about 25 minutes long. With one Brain Break included into each lesson.

Commentary: I will begin this lesson by prompting a discussion about Fairy Tales. What tales do
the children already know, what are they, etc. A challenge I expect is getting the children to realize
what kind of stories I am referring to.

Instructional Procedures:

Day 1:
For the first 10 minutes of this lesson students will complete the journal prompt, I think a fairy tale
is. This will include a picture depicting what they just wrote about.
Students will then spend the next 5 minutes of the lesson sharing what they wrote with the teacher
praising their ideas and confirming those that are correct.
Students will then participate in a brain break played on the IPad app GONOODLE
Students and Teacher will spend the next ten minutes collaborating on a list of fairy tales
characteristics and examples of fairy tales.
Day 2:
Student will start by listening to the book Little Red Riding Hood By: Jerry Pickney, this will take
approximately 5 minutes.
Students will take the next 5 minutes to then use the book and identify the characteristics of a fairy
tale they observed.
The next 7 minutes will be spent making little red riding hood finger puppets found on this website
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/120400990014628564/
The children will then participate in a 3 minute brain break found on go noodle
The children will spend the next 5 minutes watching little red riding hood on youtube and making a
comparison between the book and the movie. The show can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG3_gnKSDh4

Day 3:
The children will start out spending the first 10 minutes silent reading on their Epic app. The app
can be found on any app store. Follow the instructions to make an account for you and your kids.
The next 3 minutes will be a brain break on go noodle.
The next 7 minutes will be spent reading the book Jack and the Bean Stalk by: Edith Nesbit
The next 5 minutes will be spent watching a clip of jack and the beanstalk on Youtube and
comparing the two works. The video can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCpAYajmvo

Day 4:
The children will start out by journaling about what they would do if they were a fairy tale character.
This will take approximately 10 minutes.
The next 5 minutes the children will reflect on the Two fairy tales they read and compared this
week. They will complete a fairy tale non fairy tale cut and paste activity.
The children will then participate in a 3 min go noodle brain break.
For the next 7 minutes the children will work in groups to act out a fairy tale to their classmates.

Pre-Assessment:

I plan to use the children’s Journal entry as a pre-assessment. This will allow me to guage the
amount of fairytale knowledge the children already possess and where to start.

Scoring Guidelines:
The scouring guidelines for this is a teacher judgement. The teacher will read the journal entries
and judge the amount of previous knowledge from the students.

Post-Assessment:
The post assessment for this lesson is the comparison on day 4 as well as the cut and paste
activity.
Scoring Guidelines:
 Scoring for the comparison will be based on teacher judgement. If the class can work
together and come up with a comprehensive comparison, the assessment is positive and
vice versa The scoring for the cut and paste activity is the accuracy of the work.

Differentiated Instructional Support

This lesson can be modified for those students who are gifted by allowing them to make an
individual comparison between works, adding in an extra fairytale for that child to work on or by
allowing them to collaborate with their peers about other options.
Those who are more challenged can slow down and focus on one work rather than the story and
the show. They can work together with the accelerated students to meet the expectations of the
class.

Extension
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.php

This site has a list of standards kindergarten needs to meet. By clicking on the standard it will bring
up a list of games. Students can benefit from this by choosing the standard they are struggling
with. Parents benefit from this by helping their student choose the stand they need to work on.

Homework Options and Home Connections

My children will have a literacy project at home this week. The kids will choose one fairytale at
home with mom or dad. Write a short two – three sentence summary about the Fairy tale and draw
a picture of the fairy tale. The students will also make a three-point list as to what makes this a
fairy tale. They will present this to the class and explain to the class what makes this a fairy tale.

Interdisciplinary Connections
Fairy tales can be connected to history by explain the origin of the story and what it would be like
to live in these places. It can also be connected to math by merging activities for example, how tall
is the bean stalk measuring activity to tie in Jack and the Beanstalk.
Dramatic play is also a very large connection. Allowing the kids to replay the fairy tales or come up
with their own will solidify their understanding of the characteristics of the literature.
Materials and Resources:

For teachers Ipad

Smart board
Little Red Riding Hood book
Jack and the bean stalk book
The cut and paste activity
Finger puppet activity

For students Journal

Pencils
Coloring supplies
Scissors
Puppet print out
Ipads
Computer
Glue
Cut and paste activity

Key Vocabulary
Fairy Tale-a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands
Compare-estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between
Contrast-the state of being strikingly different from something else