Name: Andrea Claire

Unit topic: The Three Little Pigs-focusing on characters, plot, setting, sequencing, and retelling
Grade level: Kindergarten
What enduring understandings are desired?
Students will understand
How to identify characters and their roles throughout the story.
How to describe the plot and setting of the story by using context
clues and illustrations.
How to recall major events in the story by using illustrations as a
guide.
The beginning, middle, and end of a story by sequencing and
retelling the story in multiple ways.

What essential questions will guide this unit and focus teaching and
learning?

Why does the story have multiple characters? What if the story
only had one little pig, how would the story be different?
How can we look at this picture (illustration from the story) and
figure out what was happening? What should we look for?
What happened in the story The Three Little Pigs? How would you
change the ending of the story? How would you continue the
story?

What knowledge and skills are students expected to gain?

Knowledge
Skills
Students will understand that characters
Students will identify characters in a
are an important part of a story.
story and determine their role.
Students will understand that characters
Students will describe the setting and
have different roles.
plot of a story using illustrations as a
guide.
Students will understand that every
Students will retell a story using a
story has a plot/setting.
variety of strategies.
Students will understand that each story
has a beginning, middle, and end.