Identifying Characters in a Story

A Kindergarten Lesson PlanBy Allison Brown

The Standard That Applies

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

What You Will Do with Your Class

You will read the class 5 very short stories with characters who are varied during a guided reading lesson.

After this you will discuss with the class (as a whole) the stories, what occurred in them, the setting, and the characters.

Activity

The class will take turns coming up to the Smart Board and matching pictures of different story settings with the corresponding characters

*Note* While doing this you should encourage the involvement of the entire class by either A) Have the class “help” the student at the board

by making suggestionsB) Have worksheets at each child's desk of the

activity that is going on at the board so they can draw a line and match the characters with their setting on their own papers.

Example of How This Would Look on the Smart Board

Settings

Characters

Assessment

Assessment would be A) Another matching worksheet that

they had to complete alone.B) A worksheet that had pictures of

settings and the students have to list 3 POSSIBLE characters that would fit into that story setting and also explain why they chose those characters.