Danielle Farkas

LANGUAGE ARTS
Grade: 1

Unit: Themes and Genres/Sequencing

Date: December 15, 2016

Activity: Gingerbread Man Book and

Puppet Show

Duration: 80 minutes

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General Learning Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
Specific Learning Outcome 2: Respond to Texts
Experience various texts

participate in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other
media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as poems, storytelling by
elders, pattern books, audiotapes, stories and cartoons

Construct meaning from texts

relate aspects of stories and characters to personal feelings and experiences

retell interesting or important aspects of oral, print and other media texts
tell or represent the beginning, middle and end of stories

General Learning Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
Specific Learning Outcome 3: Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Understand forms and genres

distinguish differences in the ways various oral, print and other media texts are organized
identify various forms of media texts
Learning Objectives

Students will:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Participate in listening to the book The Gingerbread Man

Discuss sequence of events of the book
Create puppets of characters of the book using popsicle sticks
Re-tell story of the Gingerbread Man

ASSESSMENTS

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Observations:

Key Questions:

Students ability to participate in shared

listening and viewing experience

What happens at the beginning, the middle,

and end in the story?

Students ability to remember

sequence of events of story

Can you re-tell the story to a friend?

Students ability to re-tell the story from

memory and using puppets

Written/Performance Assessments:
Students re-tell story in correct sequence of events of story using character puppets.
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Book: The Gingerbread Man by Lisa Harkrader

Popsicle sticks

Glue

Pencil crayons or crayons

Scissors

Picture page
PRE-LEARNING CONSIDERATIONS

Time of day: Third and Fourth block, after first recess

TEACHER RESOURCES

Sample
PROCEDURE

Introduction

Teacher

(15 min):

Students have 10 minute snack after first recess

Students put snack away
Call students to carpet, wait for silence
Students are to criss-cross applesauce, sit in their bubble.
Expectations for Learning and Behaviour: Students are expected to have
their listening ears on and put their hand up if they would like to add to
conversation. No talking over each other and no talking over teacher.

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Students respond when called on. Use Rocket on Top, Everybody Stop
Teacher/Student
Transition

Teacher
Ask students to find a spot on carpet to participate in reading

(2 min.):
Learning Activity #1

Teacher

(20 min.):

Read The Gingerbread Man

Book and Discussion

Show students the craft they will get handed to them

GLO 2/SLO 2

Go through steps and explain

Assessment: Students ability to listen cooperatively
Key Question: What happens at the beginning, the middle, and end in the
Gingerbread Man story?

Teacher/Student
Transition
(3 min.):

Teacher
Students return to desk
Pass out materials, ask students to get out their materials

Learning Activity #2

Teacher

(30 min.):

Show students sample again

Gingerbread Man
Story Craft and
Puppet Show

Students colour first, cut second, glue third

GLO 2/SLO 2

They find a friend that is done their puppet and find a spot in the room to retell the story to each other using their puppets

GLO 2/SLO 3

When they are done cutting they get the popsicle sticks to glue

Assessment: Students remember the events of the Gingerbread Man Story

Key Question: What happens at the beginning, the middle, and end in the
Gingerbread Man story?
Can you re-tell the story to a friend?

Closure

Teacher

(10 min.):

Students put their puppets in their mailbox to take home

Students get ready for recess
Consolidation/Assessment of Learning: Students will understand beginning,
middle, and end of story and proper sequencing

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Students will re-tell story to a friend

Extra Time Activity: Students can work on activity book at their desks or read a book quietly on the
carpet

Reflection: