Amanda McBride

Professor Wisnewski

EDU 329/03

April 19, 2016

Grade 1

Topic: Retelling a Story

Content Area: ELA

Instructional Objective:
After reading Henrys Homework Folder, students will answer reading comprehension
questions and reflect on their real-world experiences related to the story with 95% accuracy.

CCLS/NYS Standards and Indicators:

Standard:
ELA & Literacy Standard (CCS): Reading; Key Ideas and Details (RL. 1).
Students ask and answer questions about key details in a text; retell stories,
including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson; describe
characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Indicator: This will be evident when students answer reading comprehension questions
and reflect on their real-world experiences related to the story.
Materials:

Red folders
Black markers
Henrys Homework Folder
Reading comprehension questions (worksheet)
Story map

Strategies:
Cooperative learning: This will be evident when students are in groups of four or five
discussing how Henry solved his problem.
Independent Study: This will be evident when students are answering their
comprehension questions and writing their real-world experiences.

Motivation:
The teacher will hand a red folder to each student, and then ask each of them to write
their name on it with a black marker. The teacher will then have the students close their eyes and
take the folders from the students. With their folders being lost, the students will be lead into
the story by the teacher.

Developmental Procedures:

Students will independently read Henrys Homework Folder and answer the
comprehension questions. (What are the main ideas of the story?)
Students will assemble into groups of four or five and explain how Henry solved his
problem. (How are each groups ideas related to one another?)
Students will think of a time in which they faced a problem and write down what they did
to resolve it. Each student will share their experience with the class during a class
discussion period. (How does the reading passage relate to the students lives?)
Students will construct a story map containing the characters, setting, problem and
solution from the story. This will be a homework assignment that students should
complete at home.

Adaptations

The students with dyslexia will be given assistance when reading the story and the
comprehension questions.

Differentiation of Instruction
Struggling Students: Students will read the story, understand the main ideas, and answer
half of the corresponding questions, with assistance from the teacher, with 95% accuracy.
Average Students: Students will read the story, understand the main ideas, and answer the
corresponding questions with 95% accuracy.
Advanced Students: Students will read the story, understand the main idea, and answer all
of the questions, in a short amount of time, with 95% accuracy.

Assessment
Students will answer reading comprehension questions and reflect on their real-world
experiences related to the story with 95% accuracy.
Independent Practice
Following the reading of Henrys Homework Folder, students will construct a story map
containing the characters, setting, problem and solution.

Follow-Up: Direct Teacher Intervention and Academic Enrichment

Direct Teacher Intervention

The student, under direct intervention with the teacher, will re-read the story a few times
until they understand the main ideas, and can successfully answer the comprehension questions.
Academic Enrichment
The student will create a scenario with a character that faces a problem and
resolves it, like Henry did in the story.

Teacher References

Henrys Homework Folder. 2015. Retrieved from

http://www.readworks.org/passages/henrys-homework-folder
New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy.
(n.d.). 19. Retrived from
https://www.engageny.org/resource/new-york-state-p-12-common-core-learningstandards-for-english-language-arts-and-literacy
Use a Graphic Organizer: A Simple Pre-Writing Strategy {Week 2}. Retrieved from
http://thisreadingmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fiction-Text-StructureRetellingOrganizer.pdf