Ed 215r Lesson 1 Stranger Danger
Ed 215r Lesson 1 Stranger Danger
Ed 215r Lesson 1 Stranger Danger
Rationale: The second week of October is Safety Week. Students will be learning about fire safety, 911, walking/crossing the street, bike helmets, seat belts, safety in the home, and stranger danger. Today, we will be working on stranger danger. This lesson fits because in the fictional story Little Red Riding Hood, the character of the wolf is a great example of a stranger they may meet who appears to be friendly and helpful, but who has something more sinister in mind. The kindergarten curriculum states that children need to be introduced to making predictions as strategies to comprehend text. They will be introduced to predictions while reading this story. The students will make predictions on what they think will happen next, so they will be left with a better understanding of what is going on in this book and a better understanding of bad strangers.
Goals (Standards): CCSS.RL.K.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. CCSS.RL.K.10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. CCSS.SL.K.2: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Objective: The students will: Make predictions to understand the story. (focus of assessment) Have a better understanding of the concept stranger and why to not talk to strangers.
Assessment: I will take notes on each student, on a clipboard that has post-its on it, on the predictions they have made to the story through their participation. (Each group will be asked at some time throughout the story of what their predictions are for the next part of the story.)
Strategies for children requiring additional assistance: This is a multi-level learning experience that includes a read aloud, so all students should be able to actively engage in the learning. I will partner the students up and they will use the strategy of knee to knee, eye to eye (eekk) to relate and connect ideas throughout the lesson. I will remodel how to make predictions, if necessary, as I observe and interact with the children.
If you think the wolf is a bad stranger, make a prediction in your head on what you think is going to happen next? (Have them press their nose to save their predictions.)
2. Participation (During reading) Begin reading PAUSE: Page 2explain what dawdle means (dawdle: waste time or be slow) STOP: Page 4 Little Red told the Wolf where she was going. The wolf is a stranger that she did not knowdo you think she should have told him where she was going? Turn to your eekk buddy and ask: What do you think will happen next? (ask 2 or 3 groups) (Assessment) STOP: Page 6The Wolf went through Grandmas things and put on a nightgown, her sleepy cap, and some of her perfume, and then jumped into Grandmas bed and pulled the cover over his nose. Why do you think the Wolf did this? Turn to your eekk buddy and ask: What do you think will happen next? (ask 2 or 3 groups) (Assessment) PAUSE: Page 9explain what frazzled means (frazzle: to be exhausted/tired) STOP: Page 9When Little Red realized that the Wolf was not her Grandmother, she ran across the room and through the door shouting as help as loud as she could. Would you have run out of the house and shouted for help? Turn to your eekk buddy and ask them: What do you think will happen next? (ask 2 or 3 groups) (Assessment) Engage in brief discussion about the textPersonal Reaction: o o What did you like best and why? What would you have done if you were Little Red Riding Hood? Why? (Assessment) 3. Practice/Performance In this story the Wolf was a bad stranger. Next time you read a book it may be about a good stranger. Can you raise your hands and predict who may be a good stranger? (Police officers, security guards, teachers, people who work behind a desk, a mother with children, mail carriers)