LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 2

The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.

Objective 2.08

Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.

Resources aligned to this objective

Grocery store matter
The lesson stimulates students' thought processes and makes students aware of the things around them by teaching them about the three kinds of matter and their properties.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
By Indiana Jennette.
Fairy tales: Another point of view
This lesson is on comparing and contrasting (alike and different) two different versions of The Three Little Pigs. Students will use the original fairy tale The Three Little Pigs previously learned in the lesson Fairy Tales and compare it to the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This story gives the wolf's point of view.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Theater Arts Education)
By Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages.
Fairy tales
This lesson will begin a unit on fairy tales for young learners. It will begin with assessing what first graders know about fairy tales. Children will learn about the original version of The Three Little Pigs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
By Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages.
Arctic animals
This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists incorporating listening comprehension, categorizing, following verbal directions, and basic vocabulary and language concepts for First grade students.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
By Susan Ayers.

Resources on the web

Text Talk: "Julius, the Baby of the World"
This lesson from ReadWritethink helps young readers interact with and interpret text using Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes. The text talk strategy provides students with open-ended questions, which allow them to interpret the... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Junie B. Jones introduces literacy mystery boxes
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, the teacher reads aloud the Junie B. Jones selection Junie B., First Grader (at last!). Students discuss the text with a partner, and then individually record key events from the story. Each student also... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink