Story Telling/ Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Kindergarten Class A level

Description

In this lesson students will learn new vocabulary words used in the reading of the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The lesson will start by showing them one sheet that has some of the charecters, bowls and furniture for a quick discussion. This will be followed by controlled practice exercise by matching words to pictures and then a semi controlled practice exercise by cutting pictures and arranging them in order. Finally, the students will color the finish the story page and then and they will be divided into two groups to come up with two different endings and then each group will share how they will finish the story.

Materials

Abc Highlighters
Abc colors
Abc Glue/scissors

Main Aims

  • To provide practice and clarification between the meanings of the words hot, cold, big, small, soft and hard

Subsidiary Aims

  • Listening to details while reading the story

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Open the picture on the smart board and ask the students questions: Who knows the title of this story? Where did this story take place? What is the girl's name? Did Goldilocks ask for permission? Did anyone use your belongings without your permission? If yes is it right or wrong?

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Students will have the handouts and the highlighters and then will review the sounds of the vocabulary words (hot, cold, soft, hard, big and small).

While-Reading/Listening #1 (18-20 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Students will take turns to read what is written under each picture. They will be asked to highlight the vocabulary words (hot, cold, soft, hard, big and small) as we are reading. While reading the story, teacher will make sure that the students understand the meaning of the vocabulary words mentioned above and will ask them to give examples to things that they know that can have the same characteristics as any of the vocabulary words. (Relate new vocabulary words to their real life) Teacher will ask questions and will ask the students to get anything from the classroom to match the meaning of the vocabulary word/s Do we have anything soft/hard in the classroom? Can you get me something big/small? Do you see at home anything that is cold/hot? where? mention the name.

Post-Reading/Listening #1 (6-8 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students will be given the sheet and will be asked to cut the pictures and arrange them in sequence according to what they have understood during the previous stage. Teacher will monitor and give instant feedback.

Post-Reading/Listening#2 (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students will be divided into two groups and they will be given the coloring sheet and they will be asked to color the picture and then each group will come up with a different ending to the story than the one mentioned in the handout. One Student from each group will present the ending to the whole class.

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