Learning Activity Plan for PreK-Grade 2

Teacher Candidate
Date/Time of Scheduled
Visit
Name/Address of School
Age/Grade level
Cooperating Teacher

Donald Kwan

Pre-K
Donald Kwan

Classroom Number: Room

201

Name of Lesson
What is a story?
Content
Cognitive
area(s)/developmental Communication/Language
domain(s) addressed
Brief description of the
Students are going to learn about characters in a story
lesson
This lesson is:
A new concept/activity A continuation of a previous lesson/activity
A review of a previous A conclusion of a concept
lesson/activity
Student will be introduced a topic involving character and plot development. In
this second lesson, students are exploring an in-depth view of character
Rationale
development where they will identify character physical properties and design
their own character.
20 minute mini lesson
Timeframe
Objective(s) of the
activity
Connections to
standards

Students will create a character through the use with shadow puppets
Students will identify 3 distinctive physical features in their character

Physical Development and Health: Foundational Skills

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PK.CKW. 5.Demonstrates eye-hand coordination and dexterity needed to manipulate objects.

Domain 4: Communication, Language, and Literacy
PART A: APPROACHES TO COMMUNICATION
PK.CKW.1. Demonstrate that they are motivated to communicate.
PK.CKW.3. Demonstrates that he/she understand what they observe.
PK.CKW.4. Demonstrates his/her ability to express ideas using a variety of methods.
PART B: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND LITERACY
PK.CKW.1. With prompting and support, ask and answer about detail(s) in a text.
PK.CKW.2. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories.
PK.CKW.3With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about characters and major
events in a
story.
PK.CKW.7 With prompting and support, students will engage in a picture walk to make
connections between self, illustrations, and the story.
Writing Standards
PK.CKW.3.With prompting and support, use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to
narrate a single event and provide a reaction to what happened.
PK.CKW.6. With guidance and support, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing; collaborate with peers.
Language Objectives

Through this activity, students practice their communication skills along with their creative
thinking literacy skills. Students are demanded to develop their language syntax through

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creation of their story. Students are creating multiple sentences that are connecting to the
same topic. Through the activity, students will are asked to developed productive
language skill of speaking and for some students writing.

Resources/materials
needed:
(Include any worksheets or
sources of evidence for
childrens learning you will
use during the activity)
Technology inclusion (if
applicable)
Procedures (step by
step)

Story Book: Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, Shadow puppets of three little
pigs with some scene, Chart paper, drawing paper, pencil markers, Black and multicolor
construction paper, scissors, popsicle sticks, glue, scissor, large white cloth, flashlight,
performers, audience, smiles

Anticipatory Set (Connection/Motivation)

Review of the previous lesson on identifying the character.
Instruction/Mini Lesson
Have student identify the character from "The Three Little Wolves and the Big
Bad Pig". Have the class identify the character within the story. Discuss with the
students what are some distinctive features of each characters. Explain to the

class that characters all have physical characteristics. Pigs have pointy ears, round bodies
and curly tails. Wolves have furry tails, big noses and claws.
Explain to the class that they will be creating their own character for a story they will
make. Explain that the characters all have physical features so their characters must have
some physical features. If the character is a pig, it must have some physical features of a
pig like snout, pointy ears or a curly tail. If the character was a person, it must have hair,

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fingers, feet etc.

(I do)
The teacher will create a character in front of the students. Have students input into the
character design. Ask student Mmm. How many arms should my character have?
Where should I place the head? Make sure the students are having fun during the
process of creating the teachers character. Teacher will draw the character on the board to
show the character.
(We Do)
Have the class create a character during the lesson, Draw the character on a
construction paper. Cut out the character and glue it onto a popsicle stick. Show
the class the character that the class designed. Use a flashlight to shine on the
back covering of the puppet stage and show the class the shadow puppet.
Explain to the class that you will be interested in what the students create.
Independent Practice

Students will first create their character using paper to draft out their character. After
creating a draft of the character, they will transfer their character creation onto black
construction paper. After student have drawn their character on the black construction
paper, have students cut the outline of the character and glue popsicle sticks on the bottom
of the shadow puppets. Allow the puppet to dry.
Closure (sharing/reflection, next steps)
For the next step, students will be creating a story for their characters.

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Method of assessing
childrens
understanding of
lesson/activity/objective
(s)
(Be sure to include any
tools, rubrics/checklists
and/or worksheets you will
use for assessment(s)

Pre-assessment

Plans for differentiated

instruction/instructional
modifications

Supporting children
with identified delays
or disabilities

Students will first be

assessed on their prior
knowledge through a
checklist interview
where students will be
asked about different
parts of a story.
Students will be asked
to describe what is a
character and some
features of the
character.

Physical delayed students)

Students will create their
character using a range of
pre cut out shapes and glue
them together to make their
character.
Follow up/Extension
activities
Any additional
information that would
be helpful for the

Assessment of Student
Learning

Student work will be assess

based on a rubric where
students will be assessed on
this requirements.
Students will be able to create
a character with at least 3
characteristics.

Assessment of
Childrens Language
Learning

Students will be
assessed on
language
development
through the same
rubric.
Students will be
assessed on their
ability to identify
different features of
the character.

Supporting English Language Learners

Students will point to the different features of

the characters and tell the teacher what it is in
their language. The teacher will identify
feature in English and have the student echo
the teacher. The teacher will write down the
word on a index card and post a picture on it
for the ELL student for future use. Have
student keep the index card for review. .

As a follow up activity, students will create a story for the character they made
today.

Prior to the lesson, the class has been learning about light. The
previous lesson, students were exploring how shadows is created. In

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observer to know

this lesson, students continue to explore how shadows work as an

indirect lesson. This will allow students to continue to explore shadows
but also introduce themselves to story development.

Observer feedback on the lesson plan, including commendations and recommendations for improving aspects
of the learning activity

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Shadow Puppets Rubric

Below expectations
(1)

Meets expectations
(2)

Exceeds Expectations
(3)

Students will create a

character for a story with
multiple distinctive physical
features including head, body,
arms and legs if character is
human.

Students creates a
character with less
than 3 distinctive
physical features.

Students creates a
character with 3 to 4
distinctive physical
features.

Students creates a
character with more
than 5 distinctive
physical features.

Grade/Scor
e