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English Language Arts — Kindergarten

Goal 2, Objective 2.04

Goal 2

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

Objective 2.04

Formulate questions that a text might answer before beginning to read (e.g., what will happen in this story, who might this be, where do you think this happens).

Resources aligned to this objective

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Look and listen: Exploring the five senses
This group of shared reading lessons is based on the book Look by Jillian Cutting. They are designed to be used as a part of an integrated classroom unit on the five senses.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
By Lisa Wallace.
Story Sequencing
This multi-faceted lesson teaches students how to sequence stories. It reinforces the following concepts: first, last, before, after, left, right. This lesson can also focus on carryover of articulation skills to answering questions as well as story telling.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
By Michele Christon.

Lesson plans on the web

Creating class rules: A beginning to creating community
Students are led through a discussion designed to establish goals and needs for the classroom. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Deeper reading response: A template for teachers
Details the five expressive and performative engagements for responding to text, as identified by Lawrence R. Sipe. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Integrating Language Arts Using "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine word-skill work with prediction and sequencing practice. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Junie B. Jones introduces literacy mystery boxes
Students discuss the text Junie B., First Grader (at last!) with a partner, and then individually record key events from the story. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Literature circles with primary students using self-selected reading
Presents a structured guideline for helping students learn to think about the books they read, and to ask questions about books shared by other students. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Reading informational texts using the 3-2-1 strategy
In this lesson, students in grades K–2 learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy, which involves writing about three things they discovered, two things they found interesting, and one question they still have. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Shhh! Bear's sleeping: learning about nonfiction and fiction using read-alouds
In this lesson, students explore the distinction between fiction and nonfiction through read-alouds of Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky, as well as poems and songs. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
The wonder of Leo Lionni: Increasing comprehension with prediction statements
In this lesson, students explore “wonder” statements when they periodically stop, think, and write about what may be happening in the text as they read a story. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE