Green Eggs and Ham Read Aloud

Lindsey Spence
First Grade/ Language Arts

Common Core Standards:

RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

RL.1.2 Analyze literary text development.

a. Demonstrate understanding of the lesson.
b. Retell stories, including key details.

RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Lesson Summary:

For this lesson I plan for my students to use their Chrome Books to open up an online read aloud for Dr.
Suess’s Green Eggs and Ham. The purpose of this lesson is for students to start to recognize beginning,
middle, and end of the story, as well as the settings of a story. Students will use their Chrome Books to follow
along with the read aloud, and then a discussion as a group, followed by a Kahoot review game at the end of
the lesson.

Estimated Duration:

This lesson will take about two hours. I plan on dividing it up within a four day period with about twenty
minutes each day.

Commentary:

My approach for this lesson is to split it up into mini lessons so students can be more engaged overall. This
lesson is for first grader, and with past experiences I know how small of an attention span student of this age
have. I think following along with the text online may be challenging. The video is a little over five minutes
long, but I plan to pause it so students can look at the illustrations and not feel rushed. I am hoping the final
lesson day with the Kahoot game will be a fun and relaxed way for me to assess the students learning on the
lesson.

Instructional Procedures:
Day 1:
First 10 minutes: I will start off this lesson by introducing the book “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Suess. I
will ask for a raise of hands of how many students have heard of this book, and how many have read it.
Students will raise their hand if they have read or have heard of this story. We then will discuss as a class the
key details in a story, and what students think those are. Students will give their ideas of what they think this is
by raising their hand and waiting to be called on.
20 minutes into lesson: For the last ten minutes of the first day, I will talk about characters in a story, and
some words we can use to describe a character in a story. Next, I will ask the students if someone can tell me
what “setting” in a story means. Students will quietly raise their hand and wait to be called on. If students
answer is not quite correct, I will call on more than one student to get a variety of answers. Then I will go over
the correct answer so students understand. I will then wrap up the first day by telling students to remember
what we went over today because we will be reading “Green Eggs and Ham” the next day.

Day 2:
First 10 minutes: Our second day for this lesson will consist of two things. I will first do a review with the
students about characters, key details in a story, and setting. I will ask the students to remind me what these are
and will call on students with their hands raised. Students will answer the questions and share their ideas with
the class. After we have reviewed everything students will go back to their seats and get their Chrome books
out. They will then go to our google classroom and click on the following link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdotPwVJYzs. This link will lead them to the “Green Eggs and Ham”
read aloud on YouTube that we will be using.

20 minutes into Lesson: After students have opened the link we will start listening to the story. I will project
it on the board and students can follow along on there and or their computer. I will stop the video a couple
times to stop and talk about characters, the setting, and other key parts of the story. I will ask who are the
characters, where is this story taking place, and what is the big idea. After finishing the whole story
(approximately 5-6 minutes) students will close their Chrome books and we will be finished with our second
day.

Day 3:
First 10 minutes: On our third day of this lesson we will start off with a discussion like the other days. Having
a discussion every day helps remind students of what we talked about the day before. We will again discuss the
three main questions. Who are the characters? Where does this story take place? And what is the main idea of
this story? Students will talk with a buddy instead of the whole class. After five minutes with a buddy we will
regroup and make sure students are understanding the concepts.

20 minutes into Lesson: The second half of our lesson today will consist of a fun activity for the students. I
found a green eggs and ham coloring sheet for students to access on our Google Classroom.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/219691288049724804/ Students will then get their iPads out and open the
Notability App to color this worksheet with their apple pencil. This will take approximately five minutes to get
materials out and then will be given ten more minutes to complete the worksheet.

Day 4:
First 10 minutes: For the first five minutes I will instruct students to get their Chrome books from the cart.
Once all students are back at their desks and have their Chrome books open, they will go to https://kahoot.it/
where they will then type in a pin number that I will have written on the board. After typing in the pin number
students will type in their name so I know who is who while playing the game. After everyone is set up and I
have checked that they are logged in we will start playing.
20 minutes into Lesson: The game will be projected on our board and students will read the question as I will
read it out loud and then click on one of the four answers on their computer screen. These questions are timed
and after 30 seconds time will be up for the question. These questions will be made up of things from the story
to wrap up the lesson in a fun way. After all the questions are completed our lesson will be finished!

Pre-Assessment:

The pre-assessment will be our discussion on day one. I do not want to give our any physical tests for this
young of an age so it will be a verbal assessment. I will do this by asking each student what they think, and
then having other students repeat it back to me, to make sure they are understanding.

Scoring Guidelines:

I will make a checklist of all the students names and the three basic ideas and mark if students knew the exact
definition and could give examples of them. I think most students will have a basic understanding of the
questions but may not be able to give an example. This will just be based off a checkmark, and not a formal
grading of A, B, C format. This will go on for each of our discussions at the beginning of our lesson each day,
to see if students are starting to remember the information, or if they still need help.

Post-Assessment:

The Post-Assessment will be the same format, along with an additional look at the students answers throughout
the Kahoot game. During the game I will look at each question as a whole and whether or not majority of
students are getting the answers correct. On top of that I will go back and look at students’ individual answers
and score them this way.

Scoring Guidelines:
The Post-Assessment will be graded by a point system. I will have about ten questions on the Kahoot
and will give them a score out of ten, as well as just a checkmark on the original chart if they now
know the answers to the three questions.
Differentiated Instructional Support
For students who are gifted or accelerated students instead of reading one story I will challenge them to read a
second story from two options I give them. They will then have to fill out a worksheet answer who the
characters are, where does the story take place, and what is the main idea. They also will be my helpers for
students who may struggle with technology and need help getting to certain websites or apps. Students who are
struggling I would meet them in smaller groups and break down each question on different days, so they can
really focus on one topic at a time.

Extension
https://elementarynest.com/story-elements-exploring-ela/ This link explains the basic ideas of a story outline
which is essentially what we are doing. I would show students this website and help explain more in depth
each idea. This website includes diagrams, and pictures which I think could benefit a lot of students.

Homework Options and Home Connections

For this lesson, after the Kahoot game, I could assign a worksheet for students to take home and work on that
summarizes all of the ideas covered in this lesson. I think a chart of some sort would be beneficial. This chart
could be in Google Classroom, and easy for students and their parents to access at home. This would not be a
homework assignment necessarily, but if students could fill it out before class that would be the best. Students
will have the online coloring worksheet, as well as the Kahoot game in the classroom throughout the week.

Interdisciplinary Connections
I could incorporate a bigger art project into this lesson. Students could paint a picture or use any supplies they
want to create a scene from the story “Green Eggs and Ham.” I could also incorporate a math lesson that
would include counting and adding up all of the items that are added to each of the pages in the story.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers My own computer

Projector in classroom
White board
Ipad
Worksheets
 For students Chrome Book
Ipad
Links to websites

Key Vocabulary

Setting
Characters
Main idea of a story

Additional Notes
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