Drexel Lesson Plan Template 

Teacher: Cortnee Love
Grade: Kindergarten
Content Area: English Language Arts
 
1. Content and Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions
about key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions

about unknown words in a text

2. Prerequisites:
CC.1.2.PREK.B: Answer questions about a text.

CC.1.2.PREK.F: With prompting and support, answer questions about unfamiliar

words read aloud from a text.

 
3. Essential Questions:
o What is the importance of shelter?
o How do homes keep animals safe?
o What are some examples of animal homes?
o What is a habitat?
o What do animals need to survive? 
o Name a habitat
 
4. Materials and Equipment:

 Animal Habitats by Christian Lopetz (EPIC)

 Smartboard (smart pens and erasers) for vocabulary display and text display
 Graphic organizers for vocabulary organization and quick writes
 Pencils
 Tubs to hold sheets of paper and pencils for quick write
 Crayons 

5. Instructional Objective:
Students will know the name of an animal and be able to match it to its habitat.
 
6. Instructional Procedures:

Before: 10 minutes
 I will Introduce the lesson by asking students to think about what kinds of
things animals might need to survive. I will provide sheets of blank paper
and pencils/crayons for students to draw examples of things that they think
 animals need to survive. I will circle around the room with the help of my
assistants to check on students who need help.
 Write “What Animals Need” on chart paper. Encourage students to think
about similarities between people and animals.

 Prompt students as needed by asking: Where do animals (e.g. dog/cat) like

to rest? What do animals eat? Do animals need anything to stay safe from
predators?

 After students have drawn their “quick draw” I will Instruct students to Think-Pair-Share.
Allow a minute of silent think time to consider each prompt. At my signal, students
should take turns sharing a response to each prompt.

 Call the class back together, and invite a few volunteers to share their thinking with the
whole group. Student Drawings will be placed on the anchor chart under the heading
"What Animals Need." Explain that animals all live in something called a habitat, which
is what we call the most ideal or natural home of that animal.

During: 10 minutes
 I will introduce the text using Google slides in which students will discover the title,
author, and illustrator. I will let students know that we are reading an informational text
to help us understand animals and where they live.
 I will also introduce the following vocabulary words: habitat, ocean, rainforest, desert,
Antarctica, Arctic Tundra via Google Slides
 I will read the text and discuss the following vocabulary words while reading:  survive,
environment, shelter, adapt 
 After reading the text I will model matching animals to their habitats.

After: 15 minutes
 Students will match animals to their appropriate habitats based on the information
learned from the text

 
7. Assessment:
Students will match animals to their appropriate habitats.

8. Differentiated Instruction: 

Intervention: Students will receive a worksheet that only has four animals with
habitats for matching. They will complete this activity in small group with my
assistant.

On-Level: Students will cut and paste their animals to the appropriate habitat
Advanced: Students will cut and paste their animals to the appropriate habitat and
use a sentence stem to write which animal is their favorite animal and tell what
habitat they live in.

Student Facing Materials: Intervention

Student Facing Materials: On-Level
Student Facing Materials: Advanced
Sentence Strip:

My favorite animal is ______________________ and they live in a

__________________________ habitat.