Reading Comprehension

Teacher: Sarah Wagner

Subject: Reading

Grade level: 1st/2nd grade ESL

Materials:
The Mitten by Jan Brett (leveled version)
Dry erase board and marker
Activity sheet

Common Core Standards:

Print all upper- and lowercase letters

Use common, proper, and possessive nouns
Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns

Objectives
Make, revise and confirm prediction to understand text
Recognize nouns
Read, write, and understand the high frequency words he and she

High-frequency words: after, he, into, she, too, was, with

Content words: ant, bear, blue jay, cold, fox, mitten, rabbit, squash, squeeze, squish,
warm

Lesson
By looking at the front and back covers of the book, students will come up with
their own predictions of what will happen in book.
Review and discuss vocab words and their meaning
Build background with the word winter

Activity
Color and then cut out two halves of mitten. Staple edges. Color and cut out animals, then
put inside mitten.
Method of Evaluation

Gather materials 1 min

Discuss vocabulary 5 min

Discuss and build background 5 min

Make predictions 2 min

Read book 10 min

Discuss predictions and answer questions 5 min

Activity 10 min

Questions

What was the story mostly about?

What happened to the mitten each time an animal crawled in?

What happened to the mitten at the end?

 References

https://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/book/?id=854

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/1/