Cause and Effect Overview

This is a story time and activity lesson plan for an elementary school library. It includes reading a book (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie or any other book that includes a sequence of events), helping the students recount the story, having the students

Grade Level: K-1 Time: 60 minutes

Materials
Book Events of the book on individual slips of paper preferably laminated. Construction paper and crayons.

Objectives
The standards used are the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts in Reading: Literature. RL.1.1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RL.1.2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. RL.1.3. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. RL.1.7. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Other Resources
Other books that can be used in a similar way:

Stella Louella's Runaway Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst Move Over, Rover!
by Karen Beaumont

Activities
1. Welcoming activity Students begin the class period by entering the library and gathering at the story time area. Conduct students in recitation of welcome to library theme. Story time Introduce book to students, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, discuss what they think will happen in the book, according to the title. Read through the story, stopping to show pictures and ask questions for understanding. Also help students keep track of the sequence of events using word cut outs (these are going to be used later on as well) Make sure students understand the cause and effect, if this happens then this happens. Activity Explain to students that we are going to be working with partners to recreate the events in the book. Well walk in a line with our partner and each partnership will receive one of the word cutouts. Then, theyll move to the tables and create pictures of what took place in their sequence, this allows them to assess what happened and retell it. During activity, students go in groups to select books Pairs will be allowed, in staggering times, to go select their books for checkout. This needs to leave at least 15 minutes for completion of the activity. Sequencing Once the students have completed their pictures, as a class we will retell

My Truck is Stuck!
by Kevin Lewis (for preschool-kindergarten)

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

by Helen Oxenbury

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The Jolly Postman

by Allen Ahlberg

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

by Judith Viorst

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Websites: Elementary Library Routines Bay News Storytime Ideas Common Core Standards

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the story, once picture at a time. Closing Collect the papers from each student, keeping them in order, and well bind them together as a class example.

Adaptations
If the students have access to computers, we could use a program such as Kidpix or Kidspiration to create the scenes, this would give them the opportunity to work with technology, broadening the learning experience. We can also, in the future, have students create their own story, integrated with their class curriculum, this is a good introduction to that final goal.

If you give a kid a cause