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Goals:
The Maine Learning Results that can be accomplished through this unit plan are
increasing comprehension, vocabulary, interconnected elements, narrative, practical
application, listening, speaking, and analysis of media. The unit incorporates elements
of The Maine Learning Results English Language Arts standard
Understandings:
Students will understand
The main idea of this unit is for students to understand and have good
comprehension of the book that was read out loud to the class while being able to
follow and understand a story line, and later recreate the story.
Specific understandings are recall of the text, learning new animal names and
expanding vocabulary, and understanding picture/text relationships.
Predictable misunderstandings are names of unfamiliar animals in the text and an
inability to recall in the correct order of events.
New vocabulary skills, identifying the main idea of the story, comprehension, and
setting are all skills that students can take from this unit plan.
Essential Questions:
Ask students questions to engage them in the story, examples are as follows:
Why did the ___(any animal) climb into the mitten?
Why did the animals leave the mitten, what happened?
How many animals were in the mitten?
What color was the mitten?
what was your favorite animal that was in the mitten, can you think of any other
animals that were in the mitten?
Who is baba, and why is she called that?
why did the other animals make room for the fox?
Ask students questions throughout the story so that it gives them an opportunity to rethink and
revise understandings.
E = Allow students to Evaluate their work and its implications?
When students are coloring their animals ask them if the color is the correct color. Ask students
to look at the pictures in the book and see if their colors match, giving them an opportunity to
evaluate their own work.
T=
Be Tailored (personalized) to the different needs, interest, and abilities
of learners?
If a student struggles with a concept or a name of an animal or is having a hard time
remembering the story line ask them to ask a friend for help in following along.
O = Be Organized to maximize initial and sustained engagement as well as
effective learning?
Plan out the activity for the day, and also be ready for the next activity to come.
If a student finishes one of the activities before other students have something for
them to move on to.
Resources:
Identify in list form the resources you used in planning and teaching your unit. Include not only
printed sources, but audio-visual aids or computer software you incorporated, as well as
websites, guest speakers, and individuals you consulted.
Students will be able to
As a result students should know the new animal names to animals that they have just been
introduced to, retell the main ideas of the story, put their cut out animals in their cut out mittens
in the right order, tell the name of the story, the color of the mitten, who knitted the boy his
mitten, participate in creating a classroom mitten, and name the color of the mitten.
Day/Date
2/2 Monday
2/3
Tuesday
2/4
Wednesday
Topic
Reading of The Mitten, becoming
familiar with the book.
Activities
Reading of the book, check for
understanding while reading, and
introduce new vocabulary.
Reading of the book, cutting out
mittens, asking students to recall
Reading of The Mitten, gaining a
things about the story while cutting
better understanding cutting out their out their mittens and stapling them
own paper mitten.
together.
Listening to the story in the morning,
Reread story, and have students color later in the afternoon have students
animals from the story and then cut
color and cut out animals to place in
them out
their own mitten.
2/5 Thursday
Reread story
2/6
Friday
Reread story
2/9
Monday
2/10
Tuesday
Reread story
Reread story
2/11
Wednesday
Reread story
2/12
Thursday
Reread story
2/13
Friday
Reread story
Assessment
Informal discussion and
observation
Bibliography
Brett, Jan. Put The Animals in The Mitten. 1996-2011. 25 January 2015
<http://www.janbrett.com/put_the_animals_in_the_mitten.htm>.
. The Mitten: A Ukranian Folktale. New York: Putnam, 1989.
Carroll, Cara. The First Grade Parade. 2014. 26 January 2015
<http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/2011/01/mitten-loads-of-fun.html>.
Finch, Melissa Toth. The Autism Adventures of Room 83. 8 January 2014. 26 January 2015
<http://theadventuresofroom83.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-mitten-by-jan-brettactivities.html>.