Reading Enrichment Unit

Title of Unit
Curriculum Area
Developed By

Hooway For Wodney Wat

English, Language Arts, Reading
Cynthia Johnson

Grade Level
Time Frame

1st Grade
1 hour

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)

Content Standards
ELACC1RL1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
ELACC1RL2: Retell stories, including key details and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
ELACC1RL3: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
AASL Standards: 1.1.6-Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format
(e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.

Understandings
Overarching Understanding
Students will understand that.
Bullying hurts others
Everyone is unique

Related Misconceptions
Ignoring teasing will not make it stop.
Everyone should be able to speak fluently.

Essential Questions
Overarching
How do you think Rodney felt when
other students couldnt understand
him?
What could the students have done
to make him feel more at ease?

Topical
How does teasing make the other
person feel?
What can you do when someone
teases you?
What can you do when someone
teases others?

Knowledge

Skills

Students will know

Students will be able to

-the main characters

-the setting
-the conflict
-the solution
-related vocabulary (rodent, capybara)

Identify the main characters

Discuss the conflict
Explain how the conflict was resolved
Provide alternate solutions
Identify and/or describe the setting
Define the meaning of the vocabulary verbally(rodent, capybara)

Assessment Evidence (Stage 2)

Performance Task Description
Goal
Role
Audience
Situation
Product/Performance
Standards

Students will distinguish the difference between positive and negative behaviors through role play.
Students will complete a graphic organizer (bubble map) to identify positive solutions to the problem.
Students will write about bullying and personal experiences.
The role of the students is to identify possible solutions that could have occurred in the story.
First Grade Students
Media Specialist will visit the classroom
Role play, Graphic Organizer, Writing Piece, Illustration
ELACC1RL2: Retell stories, including key details and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Other Evidence
As a ticket out the door, the students will write an adjective on a post it note to tell how they feel about the main character in the story.

Learning Plan (Stage 3)

Where are your students headed? Where have
they been? How will you make sure the
students know where they are going?
How will you hook students at the beginning of
the unit?

The media specialist read the book Hooway for Wodney Wat to the first grade class. They are
familiar with the main idea of the book.

What events will help students experience and

explore the big idea and questions in the unit?
How will you equip them with needed skills and
knowledge?

Through the use of role play, the students will be able to experience how it feels personally to
be bullied and have others laugh at them. After the role play activity, the class will revisit the
topic of bullying discussed with the school guidance counselor; i.e., effects of bullying and what
they should do if they are being bullied or observe someone else being bullied.

The students will be shown the youtube video clip Meanest Girl in Second Grade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIA28AZwuo4

How will you cause students to reflect and

rethink? How will you guide them in rehearsing,
revising, and refining their work?
How will you help students to exhibit and selfevaluate their growing skills, knowledge, and
understanding throughout the unit?
How will you tailor and otherwise personalize
the learning plan to optimize the engagement
and effectiveness of ALL students, without
compromising the goals of the unit?
How will you organize and sequence the
learning activities to optimize the engagement
and achievement of ALL students?

The class will discuss the overview and the purpose of the book. Students will complete the
graphic organizer to help reflect and recall details from the story.
Students will reflect on whether they have been teased or teased someone else about how they
talk or look through guided discussion. Each student will use the following sentence frame to
construct a written reflection: Bullying is wrong because _______.
Students will write something positive about themselves and construct an illustration of
themselves and state I think I am perfect the way I am because ______. This activity will allow
the students to think of themselves in a positive manner.
Sequence to learning activity:
-Hook (video clip) and introduction
-Reading and discussion
-Recall Information (Graphic organizer)
-General Reflection and Summarization (Role play and Counseling Session)
-Self Reflection

From: Wiggins, Grant and J. Mc Tighe. (1998). Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
ISBN # 0-87120-313-8 (ppk)