Teacher: Hofer

Grade: 2nd
Content Area: ELA

1. Content and Standards:

a. CC.1.2.2.A Identify the main idea of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of
specific paragraphs within the text
b. CC.1.2.2.B Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and
how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text
c. CC.1.3.2.A Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, and
moral
d. CC.1.2.2.E Use various text features and search tools to locate key facts or
information in a text efficiently
e. CC.1.4.2.A Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey
ideas and information clearly.
f. CC.1.4.2.P Organize a short sequence of events, using temporal words to signal
event order; provide a sense of closure
2. Prerequisites: Prior to this lesson the students have read through fiction and identify
various text features including predictions.

3. Essential Questions: Based on the pictures and title, how do you think stone soup is
made? What are the ingredients?

4. Materials and Equipment:

i. Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

5. Instructional Objective: At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
a. Independently create a how to booklets on one of four topics- How to get ready
for school, How to pack up for home, How to get ready for bed, and How to do
homework.
b. As a group we will list the steps and ingredients from the story to make stone
soup

6. Instructional Procedures:
 Before: To begin the lesson, I will start by having the students come to the carpet. I’ll
ask my essential questions- Based on the pictures and title, how do you think stone
soup is made? What are the ingredients?(Using TPT) I will also ask the students if
they have ever helped cook at home and followed a recipe?
 During: We will read through Stone Soup. To begin the read, I will ask the students
the following questions before and during the reading-
a. How would you react to strangers coming to your town/ home?
b. Why did the peasants hide all the food? If you were in their situation would
you have done the same? Explain your reasoning
c. How would you feel if someone treated you the way the peasants treated the
soldiers?
 d. Based on what we know, if the soldiers hadn’t come up with their plan, what
do you think would have happened?
These questions will be asked as think pair share or as individual questioning.
Additionally while they are reading, the students will be tasked with writing down the
steps and ingredients for making stone soup. Then when we are finished reading, as a
group we will complete a how to make stone soup recipe guide. This is a model for
the students to follow for their how to guides. Individually the students will come up
and pick a popsicle stick labelled with one of four how to topics. Then they will work
independently to complete their own how to booklet.
 After: To complete the lesson, the students will share (read and act out) their how to
booklets with two different partners and four students will share their booklets to the
class (acting out the steps in addition to reading).

7. Assessment: For this lesson there will be one assessment. Where the students able to
create a how to booklet based on the topic chosen. Do the steps they included make sense
and do they go in a reasonable order?

8. Differentiated Instruction: For this particular lesson, I will differentiate in a few ways. I
will model the activity so they have an idea of what I am expecting in their booklets.
During the independent work I will walk around to ensure that a child who maybe
struggling is able to get some one on one as well as provide the extra support during
center time. I will also vary work as individual, pair, and whole group.