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KindergartenLanguage Arts

Monica Machado

The purpose of this lesson is to teach kindergartners how to answer questions about key

details in a text: characters, setting and major events at the beginning, middle and end ofa story to help them retell a familiar story.

K.RL.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a

text

K.RL.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

K.RL.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, setting, and major events in

a story.

Objectives:Students will be able to:

answer who, where and what questions about a familiar story.

identify characters, setting and sequence of events in a familiar story.

with teacher support, write their answers in a graphic organizer.

use the Storyrobe app to create a reading comprehension video to retell a familiar

story.

Use academic language in their story retell (A character is..., the setting was...,

First,..., Next,..., Finally,...)

Materials Needed:

iPod touches for each student (25)(or at least 7 for small group instruction/rotation) Storyrobe App

Story elements graphic organizers (differentiated)

Leveled/decodable reading books

Other Resources:

Voice Memo App

Anchor Charts

Read Aloud books

Information:In the second trimester of kindergarten, students are taught whole group about story

elements using a read aloud book. We record answers in anchor charts about characters,setting and sequence of events. Then they are taught how to use the app Storyrobe to

create a whole group story retell using the information in the anchor charts. Storyrobe isan App that allows students to create a narrated slideshow. Students learn how to take

pictures of the characters, setting and sequence of events in a story and then narrate eachpicture using the information gathered and recorded in the story elements anchor charts.

Once students are familiar with the story elements and the Storyrobe app, we begin phase

two in the third trimester. In the third trimester I divide my class into reading groups forsmall group instruction. The information below will explain the steps for the lesson:


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1. Preview/read new decodable or leveled book with students in their small group.

2. Practice reading the book and other familiar books every day.

3. Discuss story elements in small group: characters, setting and sequence of events.

4. Use story elements graphic organizer to help them record the answers. Each student

has a graphic organizer and depending on their writing level either copy the answers

after having discussing them or write them on their own.5. For two or three days, students practice reading their story retell using the graphic

organizer (During independent work time you could have them use the Voice MemoApp to record themselves practicing reading the story retell, in addition to practicing

with the teacher in small group)

6. Create the end product: Have students create their own story retell by making a

slideshow using Storyrobe in their iPods. Note: Depending on the groups abilitylevel, I either remind them of the steps in creating their project before sending them

off to create it independently, begin the project with them in small group and havethem finish it on their own, or we create it together in small group. In my experience,

out of a class of 25, only about 5 students require the last intervention.

Verification:

Steps to check for student understanding

1. Each slideshow is saved in the Photo library of each iPod with the date.

2. Students can share their projects with the class. Teacher must designate how to do

this.

3. Teacher can also import all student slideshows once the iPods are synced to the

teacher computer to check for student understanding.

Notes

Here are the graphic organizers referred to in this lesson. The first one is a beginning

graphic organizer and the second one is an advanced one:


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