S1+Couture+Jenny

=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= A2 Literary Texts Grades Pre k-2 Students identify and describe settings and characters. Students retell the sequence of events and include essential details.
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts- A. Reading

English Language Arts 2.1- Students will retell a story sequentially including the main idea, important details about characters, setting, problem, and solutions.

a. Students will use comprehension strategies to understand texts within a grade appropriate span of text complexity. ||

//What understandings are desired?//
•comprehension develops as a result of careful reading and the making of connections. •retelling includes key story components. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * • retelling is a way to communicate ideas about the books we read.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•What were you thinking about as you read this story? •What important components have others used to retell? Is it important to retell in a particular order? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How is retelling used in the regular classroom and in the larger world?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
retelling a story. •What important __characters__ and __events__ to include when retelling. •__Terminology__: main idea, characters, setting, problem, and solution. their own knowledge helps them to remember the new information in the book. || •Demonstrate comprehension of a text by retelling it orally. •Interpret and organize the main ideas in order to retell in a particular sequence. •Use (book to self, book to book, or book to world) "connections" to better understand and remember the big ideas in the story. •Inferring, or "read between the lines" and visuallizing is used to grasp what the author is really trying to say. •Role play the story using their homemade character puppets and setting. •Retell stories sequentially including the main idea, important details about characters, the setting, problem, and solutions. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * •The __sequence__ of a story is important when
 * Four different connections and how thinking about


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**