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Printable Version

• Book The Mitten by Jan Brett
  
• Flannel board with corresponding animal pictures
  
• Worksheet of animal pictures to be colored and cut
  
• Scissors
  
• Crayons
  
• Large envelopes

• To enable the students to develop the skill of retelling a story.
  
• To have the students reinforce their sequencing and sorting skills.
  
• To have the students review the sounds of previously learned alphabet letters (m, f, and b) and briefly introduce new letters and sounds (h, o, and s).

• The teacher will prompt the children by asking if they or a family member every lost anything and how they felt when they did.
  
• The children will be asked what they think the story is about
  
• She will then tell the class that the story is about a mitten that a little boy named Nikki lost and what happens when some animals find the mitten.
  
• The students and teacher will then participate in a shared reading experience as they read the book together.
  
• The students will predict what will happen next in the story.
  
• The students will then retell the story with flannelboard figures discussing the corresponding order in which the animals appear in the story. The teacher will write the names of the animals on chart paper and the children will participate by grouping the words according to their initial consonants.

• Immediately following the lesson the students will go to their tables to color and cut pictures of the animals from the story. The name of each animal will be written on the cutouts and the teacher will ask the students to point to their animals that begin with the letters b (badger, bear), m (mole, mouse), f (fox), r (rabbit), h (hedgehog) and o (owl).
  
• The following day the students will color and lace pairs of oak-tag mittens. As the teacher again reads the story they will place their animals into the mitten in the appropriate sequential order.
  
• The children will be given a ditto with a picture of a mitten and the caption "The _______crawled into the mitten." They will draw one of the animals they recall from the story and attempt to write the name of the animal in the blank space (using the animal names from the chart as a guide)

• The children will be able to verbally retell the story of The Mitten on their own.
  
• The students will be able to recall what happened first and last in the story (and what comes next?)
  
• The children will be able to identify the names of the animals from the story according to their initial sounds.

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