Name: Evan Shroyer Grade Level: 2nd Approximate Time: Objective: The students will reenact the assigned

story with dramatic play items. IN Standard: EL.2.7 2006 - LISTENING AND SPEAKING: Skills, Strategies, and Applications
Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides the listener to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation (raising and lowering voice). Students deliver brief oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests that are organized around a point of view or thesis statement. Students use the same Standard English conventions for oral speech that they use in their writing.

Indicator:
EL.2.7.8 2006 Retell stories, including characters, setting, and plot.

Materials/Media/Technology: 2-3 child rakes, 3-4 child spades, fertilizer soil, water bucket, gardening bucket, trays (for soil), 4 potatoes (real) ____________________________________________________________ PRE ASSESSMENT: Ask the students if they are familiar with how to plant potatoes. Ask the students where potatoes grow. (The instructor should have a good time with this, i.e, Do potatoes grow on trees? Do they grow at Wal-Mart? Do they fall from the sky?) I. MOTIVATION: As part of this particular prop box literacy center, the students will read together the book, Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy GOAL FOR LEARNER: The students will apply the basic principles of comprehension through dramatic play with peers.

II. PROCEDURE: PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: The students should have basic concepts of comprehension and retelling parts of a story. The students will have an understanding of gardening and its procedures and norms. NEW INFORMATION: Give instructions to the students as a whole group about each literacy center/prop box. Briefly describe each center and the objective. For the prop box, the students will have instruction inside, along with labels of each item. Be sure that the students return all the items to the box (bucket) after they are finished CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING: As the students are completing the stations, walk around and monitor their behavior While monitoring, observe if the students are capturing the objective properly MODELING: If necessary, model the dramatic play with the students for the prop box Retell various parts of the story (i.e, ask the students, Rememb er when they had to rake the dirt before planting the potatoes? Then the instructor pours the dirt into the tray, retrieves the rake, and begins raking the dirt.) GUIDED PRACTICE: The students will participate in the dramatic play/retell exercise after they finish reading the story CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING: Monitor the students understanding of the purpose of the activity, it not simply a time for them to act out a play, but to retell parts of the story, yielding efforts to comprehend what was read

PRACTICE: In groups of 4-5, the students will read Two Old Potatoes and Me, reenact the story by using the dramatic play items, and retell parts of the story while doing so POST ASSESSMENT: There will be no formal post-assessment administered for this activity, as it is part of several other centers EXTENSION: Invite the students to actually plant potatoes or other crops with their family CLOSURE: Be sure that each group of the prop box cleans up their area, places the play items back into the bucket, and moves to the next station quietly III. EVALUATION: RUBRIC: