Sarah

Lauer

2nd Grade ESL

Lesson Title: How Characters Respond to Events

Materials:
Graphic organizers
Clipboards
Pencils
If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, DONT!

Prerequisite Skills:
Some knowledge/understanding of character, event, and characters response
Classroom routines/expectations
Standard: RL.2.3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and
challenges.
Objective: Students will be able to describe how characters respond to events in a story.
I can describe how characters respond to events in a story.
Provide Objective: (4 minutes)
Show me how youre feeling
Mirror On: 2nd Grade I can describe how characters respond to events in a story.
o Mirror On is when the students copy everything the teacher says and
does. I will be using gestures throughout the presentation of the
objective.

Demonstrate Knowledge/Skill: (3 minutes)
Yesterday we talked about characters, events, and how characters respond to
those events. I read you The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Who thinks they
can tell me a character from the story? Dont say it yet! When I touch my nose,
whisper a character.
Pull up PowerPoint
A character is who the story is about. Characters can be people, animals, and
sometimes even things like Olaf from Frozen.
Events are the important things that happen in a story, and characters responses
to those events are what the characters DO about what has happened.

Group Practice: (6 minutes)

When I say go I want you to move next to your partner(s).
Have one student pass out clipboards and another pass out pencils while I pass
out papers
Im going to give you a few minutes to finish up your graphic organizer from
yesterday remember you have to talk with your partner(s)!
Give students about 5 minutes to finish their work.

**Guided Practice and Check for Understanding/Provide Feedback were completed
yesterday**

Independent Practice/Assessment: (17 minutes)
Call class back together.
As I read, I want you to pay attention to the characters, events, and characters
responses to those events.
Read If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, DONT!
Give students new graphic organizers.
Im going to have you fill out a graphic organizer on your own. You get to pick an
event, a character, and how the character responds to the event.

Differentiation:
I will provide any needed assistance to student pairs
I will be using gestures throughout the lesson as necessary to provide
comprehensible input for students

Total Lesson Time: 30 minutes

References Consulted:
Mentor Teacher (Erin Kaiser)