BACKGROUND: This lesson is designed for ten to twelve middle range intermediate students. Their ages are between seven and nine years old. They come from Russia, Mexico and Japan. They speak Russian, Spanish, and Japanese.

OBJECTIVES: Students will learn how to sequence a story. They also will learn the relationship between oral language and the written word.

MATERIALS: Paper, pen, markers, and books

WARM-UP: Read a patterned book to the class. For example: The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle.

LESSON PLAN:

Introduction: Have students work in pairs reading the story back and forth to each other. This will require five to six copies of the book.

Presentation: Have the story cut into word strips. Students will work together in groups of four to put the story in proper order. Students will then draw their own pictures to accompany the story.

Practice: Each student will dictate the story (The Grouchy Ladybug) to the teacher in their own words. The teacher will write down the story word for word.

The teacher will then read the student’s story aloud to the student and point to each word as it is read. The teacher will ask the student if there are any changes they would like to make or words that need to be corrected. The teacher will then circle these words and have the students write them down in their personal dictionaries. The students will be given a copy of the story they told.

Sequencing was previous done. Students will then share their stories and pictures will a partner in another class. The teacher will combine all of the short patterned student’s stories into one big classroom book.