Sentence Strip Fairy Tales Lesson

Student Teacher: Cara Gulick Date: 3/4/16 Grade Level: 2nd

Pennsylvania Academic Standards and Common Core Standards

CC.1.3.2.G: Use information from illustrations and words, in print or digital text, to demonstrate
understanding of characters, setting, or plot.

Objectives
Students will:
arrange story events to depict the storys order.
Illustrate the events of the story.

Student Friendly Learning Targets

I can:
put sentences of a story in order.
draw pictures to match the sentences.

Vocabulary
Tier 1: Tier 2: problem, solution, setting, Tier 3:
characters, compare, contrast

Essential Question(s)
How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?

Materials and Resources

Large construction paper
Sentences describing story events for Jack and the Beanstalk and Red Riding Hood
Glue
Crayons/colored pencils

Instructional Procedure/Activities
INTRODUCTION (Small Group/Pairs)
Gather either Group 1 or Group 2 on the carpet. These students will discuss either Jack and the
Beanstalk (Group 2) or Red Riding Hood (Group 1) with a partner, sharing their favorite parts and why
they liked/didnt like the book.

TEACHING STRATEGIES (Whole Group/Individual)

Students will divide their construction paper into six (Red Riding Hood) or eight squares (Jack and the
Beanstalk).
Students will cut apart the sentence strips and arrange them in order on their desks. Then they will
glue one sentence in each box.
Students will draw a picture to go along with the sentence(s) in each box.

SUMMARIZING STRATEGY (Individual)

On the back of their posters, students will describe aspects of the story that make it a fairy tale.
Multiple Intelligences
Verbal: Pair-share activities
Visual: Creating sentence organization poster
Interpersonal: Pair-share activities
Intrapersonal: Completing sentence organization poster; writing about fairy tale

Differentiation
The setting, characters, beginning, middle, end graphic organizers were used to decide whether students
would complete the sentence strip summary of Red Riding Hood or Jack and the Beanstalk.
Students who missed some sections of the graphic organizer or who missed writing important story
events in the graphic organizer will be in Group 1. They will organize sentences for Red Riding Hood.
There are six different sentences, and they are shorter in nature.
Students who completed mastered every aspect of the graphic organizer will be in Group 2. They will
organize sentences for Jack and the Beanstalk. There are eight different sets of sentences, and they
are more complex.

Assessment(s)
Formative: Summative:
Observing students during discussion Sentence strip activity & fairy tale explanation
on the back of the poster

Closure/Follow-up/Homework
The sentence strip posters will be hung around the classroom.

If any students have difficulty putting the sentences in order, then these students will complete additional
story events practice during small group reading time.