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TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
Ready-to-use, creative, standards-based lesson plans
with everything you need to teach language arts, science, math, social
studies, music and art. Just click and print!
from Rising Moon’s
There Was Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea
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DISCUSSION GUIDES
Quick and easy prompts to engage thinking on various levels about
literature. Perfect for sub-plan fillers and story time.
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THEMATIC,
STANDARDS-BASED LESSON PLANS
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Story Mapping Lesson for
THERE WAS A COYOTE WHO SWALLOWED A FLEA
(sequencing events in a story &
retelling a story)
(reproduce "Coyote" on a large tri-fold display board, cut a
slit for his mouth and allow students to retell the story as
they "feed" the coyote the characters from the book.)
Read on for instructions:
Here's a really fun and
hands-on way to engage students in the skills of recalling
details, retelling a story and sequencing events in a
story.
1. Reproduce an image of "Coyote", such as I did on the
three-fold display board, above.
2. Attach a bandana around "Coyote's" neck, using a glue gun
or stapler (just to give him more dimension.)
3. Cut a slit approximately 1/2 inch wide in "Coyote's"
mouth. Students will "feed" Coyote the items he
swallows in the book through this "mouth".
4. On the back of the display board, tape a large, zip-lock
baggy at the cut-away (coyote's mouth), so that the items
the students place in his mouth fall into the baggy.
5. Reproduce the items "Coyote" swallows from the worksheet.
http://www.jenniferwardbooks.com/Tools%20Coyote.pdf
(page 3 of 7)
6. After reading the story to students, allow them to recall
details and retell the story in sequence as they feed
"Coyote" the characters and items in the story, There Was
a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea.
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Story Mapping Lesson
for THE SEED AND THE GIANT SAGUARO
(sequencing events in a story using
a hula-hoop!)
Circular plots are ideal for teaching the skill of sequencing events in
a story.
Here's a simple and fun lesson to use with students.
Materials needed: book The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
hula hoop, adhesive velcro, reproducible images.
Because The Seed and the Giant Saguaro has a circular plot (the
story ends back where it started), you can use a hula hoop and cut-outs
as a means to allow children to retell the story in sequence, in a
hands-on fashion. After sharing the story with children during a read
aloud, allow them to demonstrate their comprehension and sequencing
skills by retelling the events that occurred in the story, via placing
the events in proper order on the hula hoop, clock-wise!
Copy and cut out the images provided (links below). Place adhesive
velcro on the back of each image. Place adhesive velcro on the
hula hoop at approx. 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00,
10:00 and 11:00.
The correct sequence of events are as follows:
1. Sagauro (12:00)
2. Fruit drops from saguaro (1:00)
3. Packrat finds fruit (3:00)
4. Snake finds packrat (5:00)
5. Roadrunner finds snake (7:00)
6. Coyote finds roadrunner (8:00)
7. Storm arrives (9:00)
8. Packrat drops fruit/seeds (10:00)
9. Seed grows to new saguaro (11:00)
Email me and I will send you the images for The Seed and the Giant
Saguaro
to use with this lesson. Once they're copied, mount them onto tag
board and place adhesive velcro on the back>
-saguaro (copy twice)
-fruit (copy twice)
-packrat
-snake
-roadrunner
-coyote
-storm clouds
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