Lesson

Title/Focus

Re-telling Old Woman & Vinegar Bottle

Date

11/25/2014

Subject/Grade
Level

Grade 2

Time
Duration

30-45 minutes

Unit

Re-Telling

Teacher

Miss. MacKenzie

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond
personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
2.1.1. Use Prior Knowledge connect personal experiences and knowledge of words, sentences, and story
patterns from previous reading experiences to construct and confirm meaning.
2.1.2 Use comprehension strategies identify the main idea or topic and supporting detailsof simple
narrative and expository texts
2.2.2. Construct meaning from text retell the events portrayed in oral, print and other media texts in
sequence.
2.3.2. Understanding techniques identify main characters, places, and events in a variety of oral, print and
other media texts.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Re-tell The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
2. Students will peer assess each other.

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:

Products/Performances:

Can students remember the sequence of events?

Did we include the story problem in the re-telling?
Did we include the ending with a solution in the re-telling?
Did the re-telling follow the same order as the original in the re-telling?
Peer Assessment

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Program of Studies

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

The Old Woman in the Vinegar Bottle
Complete Story boards
Peer Edit Form (8 copies)

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Assessment of Prior
Knowledge
Expectations for Learning
and Behaviour
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Learning Activity #1
Teacher Notes: Assessments/
Differentiation

Learning Activity #2
Teacher Notes: Assessments/
Differentiation

Photocopy Peer Review Sheets

Introduction
Have students bring their storyboards to the carpet. (LIAM??) need to be
handed back.
Have students following along in the story by putting their finger on the house
the old lady is currently living in.
1. Students follow along with finger
2. Students share ideas for the re-telling rope
3. Students re-tell the story and fill out a peer evaluation for their partner
1. Re-read story
2. Create Re-telling Rope
3. Students re-tell story with partner
Tell students to join at the carpet pass out their storyboards
Body
Re-read story with story board
- Instruct students to point to the correct house when it is read aloud in
the story.
Create re-telling Rope
- Characters
- Setting
- Problem
- First
- Next
- Then

Time

Time

Learning Activity #3
Teacher Notes: Assessments/
Differentiation

- Finally
Re-tell story with Peer evaluation
- Using story board, re-tell story to a partner (chosen by teacher)
- Partner listens for: Did the retelling include the story problem? Did the
story retelling include the ending with a solution? Did the retelling
follow the same order as the original?
Closure

Consolidation of Learning:
Feedback From Students:
Sponge Activity/Activities
Reflections from the
lesson

Time