5e Lesson Plan
5e Lesson Plan
5e Lesson Plan
Layla Lorenzen
15 September 2021
State Standards: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a
story.
Materials: Two copies of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, print outs, and coloring supplies
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to identify main characters in the story, as well as describe one key event
from the story, and where it took place.
Students will be able to talk about characters and what they did, and any other events in a story.
They will demonstrate this through explaining the story with help, and explain their favorite
parts of the story.
The way this can be adapted to is the student can be provided with their own copy of the book,
so they can look at pictures more closely and understand the story better. They can also sit at the
front of the classroom.
ENGAGEMENT
Pick a story that would be appealing to their age group, and maybe something with more
pictures and things that will be easy for them to remember characters, where it takes place, and
talk about where the characters were. The book I chose is fast moving, only two characters, and
there are big events for them to remember. Read the book aloud to students. To preface reading,
ask students for their predictions of the story.
They should be asking questions about the characters and setting. Maybe things like where
exactly the story takes place, and what else the characters do and how they would feel if a mouse
caused trouble in their lives.
EXPLORATION
There will be a hand-out given to all the students, with a picture of the mouse already printed
on it, where they will then draw their favorite activity that the mouse did next to it. Quickly
check in with each student to ask them to talk about their favorite activity.
Some of the big idea questions include, “How would you feel if you were getting bossed
around by a little mouse?” “What is the craziest thing the mouse did in the entire story?” “What
would you do if a mouse asked you for a cookie?” “What is your favorite thing that happened the
story?”
EXPLANATION
Ask leading questions before reading like; who was the story about, what were they doing and
where were they doing it.
What happened in the story? Who are the main characters? What kind of activities do the
characters do together?
ELABORATION
They will develop a more sophisticated understanding of the concept by listening to the story
and talking about characters, their actions, and setting. This way, the next time they hear a story
they will be able to apply this knowledge to something new.
This knowledge is applied in our daily lives because every day in everything we read, we
always need to know who is involved, what they’re doing and where they’re at, whether the
content is fiction or nonfiction.
EVALUATION
They will demonstrate what they learned by answering simple questions about the story.