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ESL Reading Lesson: The Mitten

This document provides a lesson plan for a 1st/2nd grade ESL reading class on the book "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. The objectives are for students to make and confirm predictions about the text, recognize nouns, and read high-frequency words. The lesson involves discussing vocabulary words and predictions, building background knowledge about winter, reading the story, and doing a related activity where students color and cut out animals to put in a mitten. Questions are provided to check comprehension.

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Topics covered

  • Literature for Children,
  • Prediction Skills,
  • Language Skills,
  • Story Elements,
  • Creative Expression,
  • High-Frequency Words,
  • Winter Theme,
  • Animal Characters,
  • Hands-On Learning,
  • Interactive Learning
225 views6 pages

ESL Reading Lesson: The Mitten

This document provides a lesson plan for a 1st/2nd grade ESL reading class on the book "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. The objectives are for students to make and confirm predictions about the text, recognize nouns, and read high-frequency words. The lesson involves discussing vocabulary words and predictions, building background knowledge about winter, reading the story, and doing a related activity where students color and cut out animals to put in a mitten. Questions are provided to check comprehension.

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Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
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Topics covered

  • Literature for Children,
  • Prediction Skills,
  • Language Skills,
  • Story Elements,
  • Creative Expression,
  • High-Frequency Words,
  • Winter Theme,
  • Animal Characters,
  • Hands-On Learning,
  • Interactive Learning

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

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