Hedgies Surprise

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Lesson Overview
Title: Hedgies Surprise Day #1
Author: Sara Spring / ReadWriteThink
Subject: LA
Grade Level(s): 1
Duration: 60 minutes
Subject Area(s):
Reading Literature
State Standards: RL.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
RL.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a
story, using key details.
RL. 7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its
characters, setting, or events.
Goals
Unit Goals (enduring
understandings):
Students will
Engage in a storybook read-aloud by making
predictions prereading, listening to the story during
reading, and making observations about the
characters, setting, and plot postreading
Demonstrate an understanding of text structure by
retelling and sequencing a story
Demonstrate an understanding of the characters,
setting, and plot in the story by creating costumes,
props, and sets for a Readers Theatre performance
Practice oral uency in English by performing the
Readers Theatre script
Lesson Goals:
Students will be able to make predictions before reading,
listen to the story during reading, and make observations
about the characters, setting, and plot after reading
Methods
Anticipatory Set:
Show students the front cover of the book Hedgie's
Surprise, and have them write or draw their predictions of
what will happen in the book in the left-hand column of the
prediction chart. They can write or draw several predictions.
Record some of the students predictions.
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Introduce and Model New
Knowledge:
I DO
Conduct a picture walk by showing and discussing the
pictures in the book before reading the text
Tell students they will work in groups to turn the book into
a play or Readers Theatre but before they do that, they
must truly understand the entire story.
Read Hedgies Surprise
Provide Guided Practice:
WE DO
As a class, discuss the story elements. Use butcher paper
to make a Story Elements chart, with three columns
labeled as "Characters," "Setting," and "Plot." Record
students' observations about these story elements in the
appropriate columns.
Ask questions:
- What were the characters like?
- What kind of person was the Tomten?
- Did you like or dislike a particular character and why?
- Where was the setting?
- For the plot: what happened at the beginning? middle?
end?
As a class, discuss whether students' predictions were
true, false, or partly true and why.
Provide Independent Practice:

YOU DO
Have students return to their tables and write or draw
what really happened in the book in the right-hand column
of the prediction chart.
Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment: were students able to retell story elements such as
characters, settings, plot? could they tell why their
predictions were true/false and why?
Summative/End Of Lesson
Assessment:
prediction chart
Modifications: Student may write phrases on prediction chart with spelling assistance.
Challenge: 3 sentences for each side on prediction chart.
Closure: Discussion of predictions--were they true/false/partly true? Why?
Materials (including technology, texts, manipulatives, audio-visual)
Hedgies Surprise by Jan Brett
prediction chart
giant chart paper with headings: Characters, Setting, Plot
Reflection (include discussion on time management, engagement, assessment
data outcomes)

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Lesson Overview
Subject: LA
Grade Level(s): 1
Subject Area(s):
Reading Literature
Goals
understandings):
Students will
Lesson Goals:
Students will demonstrate an understanding of characters
from the story, including their personality and physical
attributes, by creating masks for their play.
Methods
Anticipatory Set:
Now that we know the story of Hedgies Surprise, today we
will start preparing for our Readers Theatre/Play. But rst,
lets listen closely to the story and to the characters since
you will be playing their roles.
Knowledge:
I DO
Read Hedgies Surprise again

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WE DO
As a class, list all the characters on chart paper. Describe
the characters' physical attributes as well as their
personalities, and write these characteristics beside the
characters' names. Make sure to include minor characters
such as the goslings, the rooster, and the chicks!
9 characters total
Divide the class into two groups (8 students and 9
students)
Within the groups, each student can elect which character
he or she would like to play. Have students write their
names by the characters on the chart paper.
Have each student tell one physical or personality trait of
their character before beginning mask.

YOU DO
Still working in groups, each student can use the art
supplies to create a mask that represents his or her
character. Make sure students write the names of their
characters, as well as their own names, onto their masks.
Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment: could students retell information about the characters? could
they describe their personalities and physical appearances?
Assessment:
each student should be a specific character from the play
and should be creating a mask that accurately depicts their
character
Modifications: Pick a character with manageable lines/part in play; start practicing lines
with student(s)
Challenge: Pick a character with several, lengthy lines or design props for their
character
Closure: Before beginning work on masks, have students tell one physical or
personality attribute of their character.
giant chart paper-- list for characters
materials for masks--paper plates, craft items
data outcomes)

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Lesson Overview
Subject: LA
Grade Level(s): 1
Subject Area(s):
Reading Literature
Goals
understandings):
Students will
Lesson Goals:
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the setting
from the story by creating props and sets for their play.
Methods
Anticipatory Set:
Have students help you orally summarize Hedgie's
Surprise. As a class, come up with a one- or two-sentence
summary of the story and record it on the board.
Knowledge:
I DO
Remind students that the setting or the set is where the
action of the Readers Theatre takes place and that there
are often many settings in one story.
Conduct picture walk through book to remind students of
henhouse, Hedgies house, the pond, and the hayloft
WE DO
Have students list the different settings from the book
Decide as a class which settings the students will
construct, and have students form the same groups from
Day#2.

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YOU DO
Assign different student groups to create each set by having
them design a sheet of bulletin board paper using markers
and construction paper to create the scene from the book.
Make sure students label (e.g., "Hedgie's house") and sign
the set that they created.
Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment: Could students tell and describe the setting of the book?
Assessment:
each group should be creating sets and props that accurately
depict the settings from the text
Modifications: May use text pictures for inspiration in set design
Challenge: Create props for characters
Closure: Review setting options and directions (label and sign)
bulletin board paper
construction paper
markers
data outcomes)

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Lesson Overview
Subject: LA
Grade Level(s): 1
Subject Area(s):
Reading Literature
Goals
understandings):
Students will
Lesson Goals:
Students will sequence the beginning, middle, and end of
the story
Methods
Anticipatory Set:
We need to make sure everyone understands the
order of the story. As we re-read, think about the
main events of the story.
Knowledge:
I DO
Retell Hedgies Surprise

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WE DO
Discuss the main events in order in the story.
Use string/paper links in pairs
Explain the terms script and rehearsal. Have
groups practice their scripts. Help students
rehearse what they are scripted to say.
Closure: recap beginning, middle, and end

YOU DO
Write sentences for the beginning, middle, and end of story
on sequence chart.
Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment: can students tell beginning,middle, end with partner in string
links?
Assessment:
sequence chart
Modifications: may write phrases on summative assessment, oral and spelling
assistance (talk out answer before writing)
Challenge: add details on summative assessment
Closure: Recap beginning, middle, and end before starting worksheet follow up
string retelling links
sequence chart
script
data outcomes)

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