Oral Expression Activity

Kaitlyn Bending

Grade Level: 2cd Grade

Content: Language Arts

State Standard, Concept/Skill and Evidence Outcomes:

Standard 1: Oral Expression and ListeningConcepts and skills students master: 2. New information can be learned and better dialogue created by listening actively.Students can: a. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or

information presented orally or through other media. (CCSS: SL.2.2)

WIDA Standard: Language of Language Arts

Overview of Activity (Explanation/Instructions):

Objectives: Students will be able to retell a story, and perform a play based off of the story “The Mitten.”

Can Do Descriptors- Level 3 Developing: Retell stories and Events. Categorize or sequence oral information using pictures/objects. Sequence pictures, events, processes.

I will begin by reading The Mitten to my classroom. After each page I will ask the students to predict what is going to happen next in the story. (this will help the students be more attentiveto the story)

After we have finished reading, I will go over key vocabulary (animals) in the book. I will do this by showing them picture cutouts of the animals. (Vocabulary: mole, snowshoe, rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, fox, bear, mouse). We will talk about eachof these animals. After I have gone over the animal vocabulary a couple of times, I will have the students then name off the animals without my help.

We will then move on to sequencing. I will have the students retell the story in their own words. They will work with a partner and each have their own cut-outs of the animals and a

mitten, and they are to order which animals went in the mittens first and last. I will go around to each group and have them tellme what they come up with. (If the students need they can reference back to the book, the whole point of the sequencing is to help the ESL students with comprehension and begin to practicespeaking and retelling the story in their own way).

The next thing we will do will be as a whole class. We will perform a play, based off of the events in the book. Each studentwill be assigned a role by me, and they will also be given a script. I will also provide them with masks that they can cut out, decorate and tape to a stick that they can hold for the play. I will have a big cut out of a mitten that the students canstand on while performing the play. We will rehearse the play a couple of times, and then possibly perform the play to a class orto someone.

No One Says “No” to a Big BearStudent 1: This is a play about the animals in “TheMitten” by Jan Brett.

Student 2: First, a boy dropped his new whitemitten in the snow.

Mole: Hello, I am a mole. I found the mitten first. It made a warm, cozy home for me.

Rabbit: Hello there. I am a snowshoe rabbit. I gotinto the mitten because the mole was afraid of mykickers. (show kickers)

Hedgehog: Hi, everyone! I am a hedgehog. Theother animals let me in the mitten because theywere afraid of my prickles. (show prickles)

Owl: Oooo, Ooo! I am an owl. I got into the mittenbecause the other animals were afraid of my talons. (show talons)

Badger: I am the badger. Look at my diggers. (show diggers) The other animals were afraid of them.

Fox: Heh,heh. I am a fox. I have sharp, shiny teeth.Guess why the other animals let me in the mitten.

Bear: (Yawn) I am a big sleepy bear. No one says“NO” to a big bear.

Mouse: I could not find any space in the mitten so Isat on the bear’s nose. Guess what she did!