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Kelly Nolan Dr. McKool // The Very Tiny Seed // Lesson Plan April 26th, 2011

Title – //The Very Tiny Seed//

Grade – Kindergarten

Standard - Standard – Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details 1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Objective – Students will be able to ask and answer question, make and alter predictions and make connection to their lives while listen to the story //The Very Tiny Seed// by Eric Carle

Lesson Sequence-

Pre-Reading: “Boys and girls, today you are going to hear a story called The Very Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Eric Carle has written and illustrated many children’s books. Can any of you think of a book that he has written that you might know? I’ll give you a hint, if he illustrates all of his books the pictures will be done in the same style and they will look similar. Let’s look at the cover and see what we can predict about this book. What do you think might happen? Why do you think that? Alright lets read and find out!”

During Reading: Page with ocean picture – “Boys and girls, 3 of the seed have gotten lost so far, what happens to them? What do you think is going to happen to the tiny seed? Do you think it will make it to get planted? I’m going to take 3 people then we will continue to read and find out.

Page with spring picture – “So boys and girls, did the seed get planted? Do you think it is going to grow? DO you think if it does grow it will ever catch up to the other? I think it will!”

Page with giant flower – “Look how big that little seed grew! It started out as the smallest and now it’s the biggest. What do you think is going to happen to this big flower? Why do you think that?”

After Reading: “Boys and girls that was such an amazing story, the smallest seed became the biggest flower! Who can tell me what happened to the flower at the end? Let’s look back at our predictions and see if what we predicted was what happened. Did you notice that as the story went on we changed our predictions because of what we read? That’s what good readers do, they changed predictions based on what they read.”

Assessment: I will know students are successful when they are making predictions, answering questions and make connections to their lives.