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GRADE LEVEL FOR THIS LESSON: Kindergarten, Grade 1

LESSON PLAN
COMPONENT

CRITERIA

TITLE and LESSON

INTRODUCTION

Sequencing and Retelling with The Mitten

Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key
details.

This lesson plan uses the book, The Mitten by Jan Brett, to teach
sequencing and predicting. This story is also used to teach the
children how to retell a story. The students will like retelling the
story on the computer and looking at the details of the illustrations.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between
illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment
in a story an illustration depicts).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding
of their central message or lesson.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters,
setting, or events.
ISTE Standards
1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative
thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative
products and processes using technology.
A. Create original works as a means of personal or group
expression.
2. Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media
and environments to communicate and work collaboratively,
including at a distance, to support individual learning and
contribute to the learning of others.
A. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or
others employing a variety of digital environments and
media.
B. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple
audiences using a variety of media formats
Learner Outcomes

Students will use digital copies of illustrations from the text to

sequence the story.
Students will retell the story using illustrations from the book and
a voiceover function on movie-editing software.

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Essential Questions

How do the illustrations match the words of the story?

Arrange scrambled story pictures and/or scrambled story
sentences in sequential order.
What happened in the story? Retell the story in order.

Anticipatory Set

Do a picture walk of the story with the students. Examine details of

the illustrations. Ask the students what they notice? What do they
think the story will be about?

Procedures

1. Read the story with the students. At each page, discuss how the
text matches the illustrations.
2. Using an LCD projector, show students how to drag and drop
the digital images in order onto the movie-editing software.
3. Show the students how to change the order of the images if
they make a mistake.
4. Give students time to put the images in the correct sequence.
5. Have the students record themselves retelling the story, The
Mitten.

Differentiation

Students who struggle can work with a partner or in groups to

sequence the illustrations.
Students who struggle to retell the story can use the illustrations
as prompts.

Closure

Have students find partners with whom to share their digital

stories.
Students will compare their sequences and digital retelling of the
story to their partners.
Students will meet at the carpet to put large color copies of the
illustrations in order and reflect on their own work. How did they
do with sequencing the pictures individually?
Students will work as a class to create a sentence to match each
picture with the teacher recording the sentences on chart paper.
Students will be encouraged to use time-order words such as first,
next, then, and last. Read the final retelling with the class.
Students can check how their own retelling compared with the
class.

Assessment(s):

The digital story retelling project will serve as formative and

summative assessments of the students abilities to sequence and
retell stories.

Legal Modifications

All modifications/accommodations identified on Individualized

Education Plans or 504 Plans are addressed.

Reflective Practice

The lesson addresses the standards of this lesson by scaffolding

students as they develop an understanding of how the illustrations
connect to the text and how sequencing can help them to retell the
events of a story.
The assessments address the objectives for the lesson because
students have the opportunity to practice the skill independently
and reflect upon their own work.

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Materials

The Mitten by Jan Brett

Digital scans of the illustrations from the book
LCD projector connected to a computer with Internet access
Computers for students
Movie Editing Software (Microsoft PhotoStory 3 or iMovie)
Chart paper
Markers