TITLE OF LESSON: Three Little Pigs aka Pigs in Pantomime Grade Level(s): Kindergarten

Content Standard(s):
ELAGSEKRL2: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details

Arts Standard(s):
TAESK.2 Developing scripts through improvisation and other theatrical methods
a. Identifies dramatic elements including character, setting, problem, plot, resolution,
beginning-middle-end
b. Retells stories
c. Sequences plots for dramatizations

TAESK.3 Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining roles within a variety of

situations and environments
b. Uses body to communicate ideas and emotions
d. Collaborates and cooperates in theatre experiences
f. Assumes roles in a variety of dramatic forms, such as narrated story, pantomime,
puppetry and role play

Lesson Procedure: Formative checks:

Hook: Show the students a piece of
straw, a piece of wood, and a few
rocks to represent bricks and ask them
what story do you think we will read
this week.
Instructional steps/mini-lesson:
Review vocabulary sow, fortune,
turnips, butter churn, frightened,
chimney.
Read The Three Little Pigs by Paul
Galdone with Story Whoosh.
Story Whoosh: students step into the
story as the character and act like the
character in that moment. Another
student is tapped to enter and the first
student leaves the circle. This
continues until the book has been read
or the teacher taps the student in the
center of the circle.
Differentiation (support/scaffolding):
Partner students as needed to support
those who may not have as much
experience in application of
pantomime and/or
sequencing/retelling main ideas and
1. Check for understanding of the vocabulary
and story elements as we are reading the
book
2. The students storyboard the Beginning,
Middle, and End. They draw a scene and write
what happened. This can be accomplished
whole group, small group, or 1:1, as needed.
3. Monitor groups as they work together.
Summative assessment:
1. Take video or pictures as much as possible
2. Discuss the outcomes with the students to
see if they met the standards of retelling the
story in sequence within the requirements of
pantomime
3. Storyboard elements if completed
individually.
Closing:
Debrief the students as to how they did. Touch on
favorite parts of the performance
Key Words/Vocabulary:
Beginning, middle, end
Story Whoosh
Storyboard
Pantomime
details. Resources:
The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone
Acceleration (extension): Copies of storyboard sheet
Ask the students to continue the
Storyboarding with what could happen if the
Third Little Pig was the main character of
another book.
Ideas to present/display student learning:
1. Videos
2. Photographs