Teacher:

Stephanie Dye

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Subject: Readers Workshop
Time: 10:15-10:45
I.

LESSON TOPIC: Characters in stories

CURRICULUM BENCHMARKS:

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions

about key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,
and major events in a story.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse
partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger
groups.

OBJECTIVES:
a. Students will be able to identify the characters throughout the story.
b. Students will be able to collaborate with one another and myself about the
story.

LESSON CONTENT:
a. Introduction: To introduce this lesson, we will talk about characters, and I will
ask if anyone knows what characters are. Based on that, I will give them a
definition of a character, or clarify what characters are. Characters are people or
animals in the story.
b. Procedure:
i.
Have students sit at the carpet with their listening bodies on (legs
folded like a pretzel, hands in their lap, eyes up front)
ii.
Introduce the lesson
iii.
Read Corduroy
iv.
Discuss about the characters in the story, and why students say
they are characters. Students share with a partner a character from
their favorite book.
v.
Students will independently read for 7 minutes. While the students
are independently reading, I will be conferring with students to
meet the objectives for the day.
c. Summary: As a summary, we can make connections to characters in other
books, movies, or TV shows. Because characters can be a complex idea since
they are not just always people, I can reference the movie Despicable Me and
discuss about the minions, and reference the movie Cars, and discuss about the
characters in that movie. By making these connections, students can
conceptualize better about what it means to be a character.

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ASSESSMENT: While we are discussing about characters in the story, I will make
sure that students are explaining why they are using those characters by referencing
the story. During their reading time, I will be walking around and talking with
readers to make sure that they can independently identify characters in the books
from their book baskets.
MATERIALS NEEDED (Other than paper, pencil): Book baskets, Corduroy,
anchor chart