Lesson Plan

Grade/Subject: Grade 2 LA Unit: Fairytales

Date: Monday, December 7, 2015 Length of Lesson: 30 minutes
General Learning
Outcomes 2.4 Create Original Text

Specific Learning
Outcomes Structure Texts:

create narratives that have beginnings, middles and ends;

settings; and main characters that perform actions
use traditional story beginnings, patterns and stock characters
in own oral, print and other media texts

Learning Students will

Objectives Identify the main characters, beginning, middle, and end of a
story
Discuss common characters, themes, and traits of fairytales
Materials The Loathsome Dragon
Anchor Chart
Procedure Assessment
Methods
Introduction Review: Beginning, Middle, and End Key Questions
(5min.) Move to reading corner
Body of Lesson Learning Activity 1: Read a Fairytale (10
(20min.) min.) Whole Group
Read The Loathsome Dragon Discussion/ Key
Focus on main characters, beginning, Questions
middle, and end
Learning Activity 2: Fairytale Anchor Chart
(10 min.)
Brainstorm main ideas, characters, settings,
and problems in fairytales, discuss
commonly known fairytales/assess prior
knowledge. If there is not a lot, write down
ideas and finish the chart later after looking
at more fairytales.
Closure (2 min.) Wrap Up: Good authors include beginnings,
middles, and endings in their stories. They need to
use characters that do lots of actions and make
sure that they have a problem in the story that the
character is trying to solve. Were going to be
focusing on fairytale stories over the next few
days, and then you all are going to get to create
your own fairytale!
Sponge Activity Spelling corrections, busy books