Grade: 1^st

NE Standards: 

-         1.1.4  By the end of first grade, students will read and demonstrate comprehension at grade one level, using a variety of strategies.

-         1.3.1  By the end of first grade, students will identify information gained and complete tasks through listening.

Integrated discipline:

-         Social Skills

-         Art

Objectives:

-         The students will be able to listen attentively to the story The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle.

-         The students will be able to correctly name one insect from the book.

-         The students will accurately draw their insect on the class mural.

Assessment:

-         Students will accurately draw their insect based on the description given in the book.

-         Students will use comprehension skills to find an insect in the story and what it looks like.

-         Students will accurately draw their insect on the class mural.

Materials:

-         Large paper for mural

-         The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle

-         Markers

-         Crayons

-         Pencils

Procedures:

Anticipating Set:

-         Ask the students what kind of insects they have seen

-         Tell them you are going to read a story about insects today and that they need to listen carefully to it.

    Vocabulary:

-         insects

-         mural

    Activities:

-         Tell the students to pay close attention to the book you are going to read

-         Read the story The Very Quiet Cricket

-         Review the story with the students.  Ask them questions like what insects were in the book that we mentioned before?  What new insects were in the book?

-         Tell the students you are going to read the story again and they need to pay very close attention because they will be picking one insect to draw.

-         Read the story again

-         Tell the students they are going to make a mural of the story.

-         Have them pick a part of the mural to draw on.

-         Remind them that the whole class is drawing on the mural so to be considerate of others space.

-         Tell them to draw their insect accurately according to how it was described in the story. 

    Provision for Special Needs:

-         Help the students draw the insect

-         Give them the book to look back at what the insect looked like.

Closure:

-         Have the students show the class their insect and describe its features.

Reference:

-         http://lessonplanspage.com/LATheVeryQuietCricketComprehensionRecogDetail12.htm

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