Grace Kendall

Online Learning: Plan for the Week (or Two)

Topic/Subject/Focus for the Week: First Grade English Language Arts
Reading Comprehension: Key Details & Main Ideas

Learning objectives:
● At the conclusion of these activities, participants will be able to:
○ Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
○ Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
○ Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Learning Activities Online Option Offline Option

Instruction and Modeling
Synchronous Instruction:
● Teacher will explain what characters,
Asynchronous Instruction:
● Students will read (or listen to) a text
settings, and events are in stories and will be asked to highlight (or
through visual and aural presentation otherwise make note of) points where
● Class will come up with examples of characters, setting, or major events are
major events, settings, and characters introduced
that may be found in a story
● Teacher will review the “why” of stories:
what message/lesson is the author
presenting

Modeling:
● Students and teacher will read micro
stories and identify where the
characters and setting are given

Explore and Discuss Explore:

● Students will read (or listen to) a story,
Explore:
● Students will read a variety of micro
and will be asked to identify characters, texts and describe what they think the
 settings, and major events.
● Students will identify what details in the
text describe these characters, settings,
and major events
○ Can be done in small groups or
individually
lesson/message of each is
Discussion:
● Students will read (or listen to) a text
and generate questions they have about
it and questions to ask their classmates

Discussion:
● Students will break into small groups,
and each group member will be
assigned a different micro story
● Students will be asked to retell their
story using only the key details
● As a class, the teacher and students will
review what the message/lesson of a
story is, and discuss what
message/lesson the students got out of
the story
○ If students do not want to
contribute in synchronous
discussion, there will be an
online discussion board available
to post on

Practice ● Students will explore ideas for

characters, settings, and major events by
● Practice activity can be done on or
offline
working with a small group of
classmates to create a character, setting,
and event through a medium of their
choice (i.e. an illustration, a powerpoint,
typed, handwritten, etc.)
● Teacher will then shuffle their
characters, settings, and major events
among the other groups, and using
those things, each group will create a
short story in their chosen medium

Product ● Students will be asked to create a story

in a medium of their choice (written,
● Can be done online or offline
○ Will work on product during
illustrated, typed, etc.) synchronous class time so
 ● Students will have to decide a students have an opportunity to
message/lesson for their story ahead of receive assistance/feedback from
time teachers and peers
● Story medium is not restricted to online
construction or format

Reflect ● Students will read each other's stories

and will be able to ask questions / make
● Students can respond (typed, written,
speak-to-text) a worksheet with
suggestions reflection questions instead of online
● Students will engage in a class reflection Kahoot
on what they have learned and enjoyed
via Kahoot