Fernando'S Gift Lesson Plan Template

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Fernando’s Gift / El Regalo de Fernando by Douglas Keister
Introduction to the unit
These lessons are designed to help you teach the story and develop students’ literacy abilities
more broadly. Each lesson aims to focus on a particular aspect of the story and help students
relate the story to their own lives as a way to help them make sense of it. The lessons are created
for use with upper elementary grades. In some lessons we have provided extensions and/or ways
to adapt the lessons for younger students. The Lesson Evaluation questions will help you to be
able to decide if students have achieved the lesson objectives.
Lesson I: What are the most important parts of a story?
Purpose: Understanding the key parts of a story: setting, characters, problem, events, solution
Objectives:
Students will be able to identify the parts of the story.
Students will be able to identify the key parts of this story.
Materials needed from the Kit
Book, Fernando’s Gift
Two Story Organizers, one blank and one filled out
Two Summary paragraphs, one partly blank and one filled out
Materials in the Environment
Chalkboard and chalk
Procedure
1. Pre-reading: With students sitting in a circle or in a way that all can see, teacher holds up
book for students to see its cover, both the back and the front. Teacher asks what the
book is called and instructs children that ‘Fernando’s Gift’ is English for ‘El Regalo de
Fernando’. Teacher writes the chart on the chalkboard to show the key parts of any story
(see story organizer in Attachment 1a; Attachment 1b is an organizer completed with
information from this story). Teacher tells the children that they are to think, look, and
listen for the five key parts of the story as the book is read.
Before reading, teacher asks a few children to say what they think the book will be about
(prediction) based on the title and the cover, and writes these ideas on the board. Teacher
asks if anyone has recently given or been given a gift and for what occasion, and writes
the responses on the board. Then the teacher asks the children to raise their hands when
they KNOW FOR SURE who is getting a gift in this story and why.
2. Reading aloud: Teacher reads book aloud and shows children the pictures up to the page
where Carmina’s eighth birthday is mentioned. Students should be raising their hands for
this page! Teacher continues reading the story until it is finished.

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