Tori Bass

Grade
Kindergarten

Lesson Title: Identifying Characters, Settings, and Major Events.

Materials/Resources Needed
-Poster
-Marker
-A Very Hungry Caterpillar Book
-Paper for the students
-Crayons/Markers

Focus and
Review

Objective(s)
(NCSCS reference)

Okay guys so remember yesterday when I would read a book to you and then we would stop and you would tell me
what had just happened? We are going to start with that again today: Read the first two pages of A Very Hungry
Caterpillar. Ask the class who can tell me what I just read. Well today, we are going to talk about the different
people that are in stories. Whoever the story is about is known as a character. Can everybody say the word
character with me?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Students will be able to identify the characters in a book and then be able to talk about the characters traits.

Teacher
Input

Guided
Practice

Okay students so today we are going to talk about characters. Characters are the main people that are in a story.
So lets pretend that we are in a story! In our story, we are at school in our classroom. Each one of us is a character
in this story. I am one of the characters because I am the teacher. Each of you guys are characters because you
are students in the story. When we talk about characters we use words to describe them. These words we use are
called characteristics. Can everybody say the word characteristics with me. Characteristics can be things that you
see when you look at a character or things that they like or dislike. For example, Katie is a character in our story
cause she is student in our class. Katie has blonde hair. Having blonde hair is one characteristic of Katie.
Have all the students gather around on the carpet. Read them the story, A Very Hungry Caterpillar. After reading
the story, ask the students Who is the main character in the book, A Very Hungry Caterpillar? Next, ask the
students what are some different characteristics of the caterpillar in the story?. As the students are naming off
characteristics, write the characteristics on a poster so the class can refer to it later on.

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Independent
Practice

Students are to go back to their seats. Hand every student a piece of paper. On the bottom half of the paper, there is
a sentence that the students have to fill in about the character.
Ex: The caterpillar is _____________. (Students could fill in the word big, green, hungry, long, etc).
On the top half of the paper, above the sentence, is where the students are going to draw a picture of the main
character in A Very Hungry Caterpillar. Students are suppose to draw a picture about what they wrote for the
sentence about the character.

Closure

What is a character?
What do you use to describe a character?
So who wants to tell the class something that they learned today?

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