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Who, where and what happened: K to 2nd reading & writing

Characters, setting, events, and questions about key details. A free K to 2nd lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students work toward: characters, setting, events, and questions about key details.

Hook (5 min)

  • Ask the class: Who is in the story, and what do they want?
  • Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.

Teach (10 min)

  • Say the big idea in one plain sentence: who, where and what happened.
  • Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
  • Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.

Practise (15 min)

  • Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
  • Try: Quiz: Parts of a story (https://peabody.kids/book-club/quiz/parts-of-a-story)
  • Read: Fairy tales (https://peabody.kids/fairy-tales-for-kids)
  • Read: 1st grade short stories (https://peabody.kids/short-stories-for-1st-graders)
  • Print: Story map (https://teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/story-map)

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about who, where and what happened, and one question I still have.
  • Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.

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