Mini Lesson

Common Core Standard: K.W.3 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a
single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and
provide a reaction to what happened.
Materials:
Writing Strategies Book- 1.11 Drew the People? Draw the Place! Pg. 48
Picture books for reference
Markers/Crayons/Pencils
Student “Blank Books” sheet of paper with three columns (beginning, middle, and end).
Anchor Chart
Guiding Question(s):
● “Can we review as a class the beginning, middle, and end of a story?”
● “ How can drawings and writings tell an opinion?”
● “How can drawings and writings tell about an event?”

Introduction:
● Objective: I can use a drawing to tell a story.
● We have been working on using our imaginations to tell a story to our friends using a beginning,
middle, and an end.
● Today we are going to learn about how we can create our own stories through our drawings.

Modeling/Teach:

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● As I am thinking aloud, I will use the “blank book” to draw what I am thinking about.
● “I want to tell the story about the time I went to the river and flipped over rocks to find
what was underneath. So I need to make sure I put my characters in the picture. Let’s See.
There’s me (Draw.) And there is my sister. (Draw.)”
● “I can add what I did before I went to the river, I will draw me and my sister in a car!”
(Beginning.)
 ● “Now I need to make sure we aren’t just floating! Let me see if I can put in details about
the place. There is a river. (Draw.) and I want to add the details of the rocks in the river.
(Draw.) I used to go there in the summer so I’ll add sunshine to show it’s hot. (Draw.) Let
me look back at it and see if there’s anything I missed about the who or the where.”
(Middle.)
● “Now I will draw me and my sister at the end of the day together on the beach!” (End.)
Students Practice/Active Engagement:
● “Now it is your turn to practice.”
● “We are going to create our own stories about something that we experienced, with a
beginning, a middle, and end that describes who we are with, what we are doing, and
when it happened.”
● “I want you to discuss with a partner what you are going to tell by drawing. Make sure
our listening ears are turned on so that we can share what we heard after. I will ask you to
share what you heard from your partner.”
● Students talk to their partners quietly discussing what they are going to draw.
● “Okay Writers! Let’s share some of what we heard from our partners on what we are
going to draw our stories about.”
● “I heard so many of you sharing such interesting stories with your partners. Can we make
sure these stories have a beginning, a middle, and end?”
● “Let’s talk about who is in our stories.”
○ Students raise their hands and tell who is in the story.
Closing/Link:
● “We saw how I told a story out loud and drew the details as I talked about them. We saw
that I drew the people who were with me in my story, and what happened. Today we
talked about the beginning, the middle, and the ends of stories. We also discussed how we
can draw to tell our own stories. We now know that we can draw different things to add
details to our stories and to add certain things that happened during our stories. We
remembered to add who was in our story and what was happening in our stories. By
adding a beginning, a middle, and end to our stories we are able to see clearly what
happened and when it happened.”