Colleen Kuwana

EDUC 204
Lesson Plan

Instructional Area: Language Arts

Grade Level: 6
Time Needed to Complete This Lesson: 40 minutes
Instruction Strategies: Whole class instruction and groups of 3-4 students.
Objectives/ Standards:
3. Describe how a particular storys or dramas plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the
characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and
connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Materials Needed: The book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964) for
each student, Comprehensive test for each group, chocolate KISS for each child one of which
has the ticket in the niggly wiggly. (the plume that sticks out of the wrapper, I looked it
up).
1. Introduction: Ask the students how Charlie got to go to the chocolate factory.
(ticket inside the chocolate bar) Pass out a Hershey Kiss for each student. Tell them
one of the Kisses has the ticket. The one who gets the ticket gets to go to the
chocolate factory. (that student gets two Kisses). Have a discussion about the
anticipation Charlie felt every time he opened a chocolate bar. Have they ever felt
that way? Why?
2. Developmental Activities: Having already read the book as a class, we now move
on the discuss it.
A. What was the plot of the story? What makes that the plot?
B. How did Charlies character emerge in the book? When?
C. How did the author develop the characters of the other children in the
factory?
D. What was the moral of the story?
E. What did you like best about this story? Didnt like?
F. What words did you learn for your vocabulary? Were there words that
you thought were made up? What were they?
G. How did the author make you think the book was about Charlie and not
Willy Wonka?
Divide the class into groups of 3-4. They will complete the comprehensive test together.
They must all agree on the answers. https://www.teachervision.com/readingcomprehension/printable/6954.html?detoured=1
This is the link to download a free comprehensive test for Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory.

Possible other activities: Have the groups come up with things that could have happened to
the children in the story instead of what did happen, like the girl who had to be juiced or the
boy who fell in the chocolate river.
Have the groups create a novel candy and name it. What is in it? How is it made?
3. Closure
Groups disengage and the students go back to their seats. The group ideas of different
accidents for the children in the book are handed in and the teacher reads them out loud to
the class.
Evaluation of Student Learning:
Assessment accomplished through the downloaded comprehensive test that was discussed
in their groups. Discussion answers can also be used to assess the ideas of the book and
how it was understood.