Teacher: Sierra Cochrane Unit Title: What is kindness?

Grade Level: Kindergarten Lesson Title: Chrysanthemum Interactive Read Aloud

Objectives :
-Students will be able to answer comprehension questions with a focus on kindness with peers.
-Students will be able to orally describe the answers to comprehension questions to peers with the use of sentence
starters.

Materials/Resources Needed:
 Chrysanthemum by Kevin Hankes (with prewritten post it notes for questions/vocabulary)
 Worksheet
 Pencils & Crayons

Anticipatory Set (List specific statements or activities you will use to focus students on the lesson for the day.):
1. Connect lesson to previous lesson on defining kindness
2. Review author and illustrator
3. Ask students how they feel about their name and why
4. Sentence starters: I love my name because…, I don’t really like my name because…, I like my name because…
but I also don’t like it sometimes because…
5. Model personal feelings about name
6. Read Chrysanthemum, stop and ask questions where there are sticky notes in the book
7. Stop and define words from text that are preselected and noted in the book
8. Put up sentence starters on the board as noted in the text as well
9. Stop and ask students about kindness throughout the book where it is noted “kindness checks”
10. Ask students to think of a moment in the book about how Chrysanthemum is feeling (happy, sad, proud, etc.)
11. Put up sentence starters for how they will write sentences under their drawings on that moment about her
feelings
12. Students will work on drawing and writing a sentence
13. Walk around and support individual students during this work time

Objective/Purpose (For the student's benefit, explain what students will be able to do by the end of the lesson and
why these objectives are important to accomplish.):
By the end of this lesson students will be able to recall information from the book Chrysanthemum as it relates to the
unit’s central focus on kindness. They will be able to draw a picture of a moment in the text and write a sentence that
describes the feeling in that moment as well.

Input (What information is essential for the student to know before

beginning and how will this skill be communicated to students?):
Before starting this lesson, students need to understand what kindness means. They will have this essential
information from the previous lesson in the unit where they defined kindness as a class.

Model (If you will be demonstrating the skill or competence, how will this be done?):
Modeling in this lesson will be done as the teacher models an answer about their name in the beginning, models how
to answer questions with sentence starters, and this will all be done verbally in the class discussion.
Check for Understanding (Identify strategies to be used to determine if students have learned the objectives.):
In order to check for understanding, the teacher will read and look at the papers after the lesson is completed to
check for comprehension. The teacher will also be able to check for understanding as students are talking with
partners as they answer questions during the story.

Guided Practice (List activities which will be used to guide student practice and provide a time frame for completing
this practice.):
Guided practice in this lesson is reading the story, answering questions, and having students answer questions while
practicing the use of sentence frames.

Closure (What method of review and evaluation will be used to complete the lesson?):
 Wrap up thoughts on the book
 Set expectations for exit ticket/work time

Independent Practice (List homework/seatwork assignment to be given to students to ensure they have mastered
the skill without teacher guidance.):
Exit ticket with a drawing and sentence on a moment in the book about Chrysanthemum’s feelings