Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan

Subject: Characters Central Focus: Students will apply their knowledge of strategies
for getting to know characters in a book.
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify
characters, settings, and major events in a
story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.9
Date submitted: 4/13/17 Date taught: 4/5/17
With prompting and support, compare and
contrast the adventures and experiences of
characters in familiar stories.

Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to independently use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast characters
from two different stories with at least 2 similarities and 2 differences and 90% accuracy.

21st Century Skills:

Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Collaboration: Students will work together to
Vocabulary):
complete the guided practice activity and discuss
their work with the whole class.
Expressive voice, dramatic gestures, characters, compare, contrast,
similar, different, story, text-to-text connections, Venn Diagram
Information, Media, and Technology: Students will
use the texts to gather information about each
character to compare and contrast.

Prior Knowledge: Students need to have some understanding of what a character is and how he or she is described in the
text. They will also need to know what a similarity is and what a difference is. They will also need to be familiar with the
stories Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood. Finally, they will also need to have some
understanding of what expressive voice and dramatic gestures are.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

Okay class yesterday we used expressive voices and dramatic gestures to 5 mins
show how a character was feeling of thinking a certain way. Does everyone
remember what expressive voice and dramatic gestures mean? Expressive
voice means to show how a character is feeling through your voice. For
example if a character was excited you would make you voice louder and
1. Focus and Review
higher. Dramatic gestures are a movement of the body, or something that is
said or done to show a feeling. For example, a wave could show that a
character is happy to see someone. Today, we are going to look at how
characters are the same or different in different stories.

2. Statement of Objective
for Student
Today I am going to teach how see if characters are the same or different in 1 min
different stories. To do so we can compare and contrast characters in books.
First I will use a Venn Diagram to show you how to compare and contrast.
Then, you will work with a partner and compare two more characters from the
same two books I used to show you. Then you will work by yourself and
compare two characters in Jack and the Beanstalk and Hansel and Gretel
using a Venn diagram.

3. Teacher Input Okay class we are going to look at how characters are the same or different 10 mins
from two different stories. To do this we are going to compare and contrast
those different characters. Comparing means to look at how characters in two
 different books are the same. Contrasting means to look at how characters in
two different stories are different. To do this you can make connections in the
books called text-to-text connections when using the two different books. This
involves picking words right from the books that describe the characters to
show that the characters are the same or they are different. Lets look at two
books we have already read together. Goldilocks and the Three Bears and
Little Red Riding Hood are two books we have read already and we are now
going to compare and contrast two characters. The main characters in the
story are Goldilocks in the first book and Little Red Riding Hood in the
second book. The question that we ask ourselves is how are these characters
the same? We can also ask how are these characters different? To do so we can
use a Venn Diagram to show this. (Show the class a large Venn Diagram). In
the middle we put things that are the same for both characters and on the sides
we put things that are different about the characters. Lets begin with
Goldilocks. She is a young girl. Is Little Red Riding Hood also a young girl?
Good, yes! So this would go in the middle of the Venn Diagram. (Write on
VD). Both character were also on their way to a house in the woods. Does this
go in the middle? Great, yes because it is a similarity. (Write in the middle).
Lets see how the characters are different. Goldilocks in her story was the one
who did something wrong when she entered the bears house, but Red Riding
Hood was going to her grandmothers house were she was invited. So we put
what Goldilocks does under her name and what Red Riding Hood does under
her name. (Write on Venn Diagram). Okay, lets do one more. Goldilocks in
her story gets no help from anyone else, but the woodcutter in the other story
saves Red Riding Hood. Again we write under the correct characters name.
(Write on VD). See how we are using ideas from the text to write in our Venn
Diagram? Use these statements to help you when comparing and
contrasting.:
They both have ______. (The same)
This one has _______ and this one has _______. (Different)
Now that you have seen me demonstrate how to use a Venn diagram to 10 mins
compare and contrast two different characters in the story, you and a partner
will compare the bears in Goldilocks with the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.
You will each receive a copy of a Venn diagram so I want you both writing
your similarities and differences of the two characters on your own sheet as
you work together. Make sure with your partner you are using these sentences
to find ideas from the text that will help you. : These characters are the same
4. Guided Practice
because ________. These characters are different because ________. Make
sure you are doing your best work and I will be coming around the classroom
to help and see what you and your partner are doing. The students will split
into pairs that the teacher assigns and move around the room. The teacher will
move around the room and observe and help where needed if students are
confused or have questions.

Okay now that you have seen me practice comparing and contrasting two 10 mins
different characters from two different books and practiced writing in the
Venn diagram with a partner, you will now do it on your own. You will all
compare and contrast one character from Hansel and Gretel with one character
5. Independent Practice
from Jack and the Beanstalk. We have all read these books so this should not
be a hard task. Again I will give everyone a Venn diagram to fill in using ideas
from the two books. Do your best work and I will be coming around to
observe and answer any questions.
6. Assessment Methods of Formative: Teacher will check for understanding by observations during partner work and
all objectives/skills: large group.

Summative: The Venn diagram t in independent practice will be collected for assessment.
 The Venn diagram will be worth 6 points. 2 points for having 2 similar ideas comparing the
characters, 2 points for the different ideas about one character and 2 for different ideas
about the other character.
After the students complete the worksheets the class will review the lesson 5 mins
going over what compare and contrast mean. Remember when we compare
we ask how are the character the same? When we are contrasting we ask how
7. Closure are the characters different? Also make sure to use text-to-text connections
while doing this!

8. Assessment Results of 17 out of 21 students met mastery of the skill (had two similarities and two differences per
all objectives/skills: character on the Venn diagram.)

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

Students who require writing accommodations will be Students that struggle with using the text to find ideas will be
provided with a Venn diagram during guided and pulled for a small group with the teacher for guided practice
independent on an iPad or Chrome Book and can type and/or independent practice.
response instead of hand writing them.

A scaffolded Venn Diagram with sentence starters will

be provided to those that have learning disabilities.
They both have ______. (The same)
This one has _______ and this one has _______.
(Different)

Materials/Technology:
White board
Marker
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
Jack and the Beanstalk
Hansel and Gretel
Large Venn Diagram
2 Venn Diagrams per student

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