November 24, 2020

Organizational Information
Teacher Ana Ferzacca Grade Level Grade 1

Subject ELA Unit/Topic/ 2.2 respond to texts

Strand
Times 10:15-11:15 Overarching What are the important events in the
Question(s) story?

How can we retell it to someone who

has not heard the story?
Description and Rationale
This lesson will tell the story of the three little pigs, then have students retell it using their own words
with puppets. Teaching them to retell a story will help with communication and comprehension of
texts.

GLOs 2.2 Respond to texts

Construct meaning from texts

SLO • retell interesting or important aspects of oral, print and other media texts

Learning SWBAT pick out important events of a story

Objectives SWBAT retell those events in their own words

Learning Objective(s) Driving Question(s) Intended Response(s)

SWBAT pick out important What are the events that The pigs build a house
events of a story happen in the story? They live happily ever after
The wolf tries to eat them

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SWBAT retell those events in
their own words
What happens first, The pigs need to build houses.
second, etc.? They decide what to build their houses
out of.
The wolf tries to blow them down.
They live happily ever after.

Pre-Lesson Preparations
Materials + Equipment Teacher Tasks

 Book to read (pdf)  Make puppets and magnets

 Puppets for the  Divide puppets into bags for each group,
students  Print worksheets
 Popsicle sticks with  Make groups, pay attention to who will work
student names together well.
 Worksheets

Body – Introduction, Activities, Closure

Introduction Time

Attention Retell Billy Goats Gruff

Grabber + Then ask if they remember what story it is
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Description

Activities
Learning “We’re going to practice retelling a story today!”
Activity 1
Read story of the three little pigs

Ask students to retell as a class,

“what are the important events?”
“what happens first? Then? After that? Etc.” 8
“what happens at the end?”
Put magnets of story events on the board as they explain them
Do you think you could explain the story to someone who doesn’t
know it?

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Transition Put students in 5 groups of 4 (one group will have 5) 5

Get them sitting in their designated areas of the room.

Learning Frist – decide who is going to play which character

Activity 2
Go over not being upset if they don’t get the characters they want,
taking turns with the puppets, playing nice with each other,
listening when others are talking. 15
As a group, they will work together and use the puppets to retell
the story of the three little pigs. Tell them they may get a chance to
share their retelling with the class.

Have student numbers on the back of each puppet and hand out
based on number.

Transition When groups seem to be done get their attention and tell them 2
that it is time to retell the story all together. Students back in
desks, one group at a time.
Learning Ask if any groups want to share their retellings.
Activity 3
If all groups want to go let them all present (some can be done on a
different day if there is not enough time)

Go over what good listening looks like and explain that we need to
show our classmates that we are listening to their retellings. 10
Have a shake break/10 second dance party between presentations
to avoid students getting restless.
Learning Have students back in desks to do worksheet – go over it step by Until
Activity 4 step, include adding names 11:15
When they are done they can hold it up in the air for me to collect
and work on their What’s Next folders

Have students pack up for recess at 11:15

Closure
Assessment Assessment will be formative, going around and listening to each

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group work as well as listening to the shared telling at the end. If

there is time for the worksheets, I will also have those to assess the
students understanding.

Reflection

What Worked

What Didn’t
Work

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What would I
change