I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Attributes

Essential Question:

How does color help us identify objects?

Bridge:

Story Interpretation

Content:

Color Words and Sequence

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To listen to story and to act out the story.

Activity: Read the story BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? by Bill Martin, Jr. Let the children act out the story by sequencing the animals. They may want to use the animal noises or talk the way they think the animals did in a quiet voice, a loud voice, a gruff voice, etc.

Assessment: Can the students tell the story back? Can they answer simple questions about the story??

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To have the children relate what they know about animal and their colors.

Activity: Discuss the color of animals that the children know about: personal pets, zoo animals, forest animals, farm animals.

Assessment: Did everyone participate? Can they tell you the colors of some animals?

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To explore ways to sequence the story.

Activity: Divide the class into three groups. Each group will interpret this book in a different way.
Group 1: Recite the words of the book along with the teacher.
Group 2: Pantomime the way each animal in the book moves.
Group 3: Make soft background noises that are appropriate to the action.
Here's an example:
Group 1: "Goldfish, goldfish, what do you see?" Group 2: (Pantomimes a fish swimming).
Group 3: (Makes soft water noises, Splash, splish, swish!).
Give them a chance to make up their way of interpreting the book. Give each group a chance to recite, pantomime, and make sound effects.

Assessment: Did the children participate in the interpretation of the book? Could they come up with some ideas other than the teacher's?

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To learn the sequence of the story and color words.

Activity: The teacher teaches the sequence of animals in story and use color word flash cards instead of saying the color of the animals.

Assessment: Can the children repeat the animals in sequence? Can they read the color words?

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To color animals the correct colors and then sequence the animals.

Activity: Given a worksheet with the pictures of the animals from the story, the children color the animals according to the color words on them. They then cut the animals apart, and arrange them in the correct sequence. They can retell the story to someone using their pictures.

Assessment: Did they read and color the animals correctly? Did they arrange them in the correct sequence? Can they retell the story using their pictures?

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To rewrite the story in their own way.

Activity: Using the text of BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? as a guide, the children write their own version of the story. Those that have trouble writing can tell their story into a cassette player for the teacher or an older child to write it out later. Maybe the children can work in pairs.

Assessment: Were they able to create another story?

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To put together a book.

Activity: Using their version of the story, create illustrations to go with their story. Make a cover and put it together as a book.

Assessment: Did they complete their book?

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To share their books with others.

Activity: The children read their books to each other. Then put them on display in the room so they can be read by each other at a later date.

Assessment: Can they read their books?

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: