Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Week 18 Peter’s Chair (FREE file)

Ezra Jack Keats Peter’s Chair Lesson ideas!

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Ezra Jack Keats Peter’s Chair lesson ideas: Reading and Responding to Text

As with all of our Engaging Readers units, we focus on various comprehension strategies all week.

Retelling

I love how this teacher decided to put the retelling cards under her document camera!  What an easy way to make the images visible to all of the students as they go about sequencing the cards.

Once all of the cards are in order and the students have had an opportunity to practice retelling the story to their partner, they then use black and white images to create their individual retelling of Peter’s Chair.  This can be done in their student notebook… or… students can make this cute suitcase and add the retelling piece to it.   

This is what the cover looks like.  It is pretty simple to make and the template for the handles are in the Engaging Readers units.

We also encourage you to add the sentence study to the cover!

Here are a few more response pages from the week!

Character Analysis

Students compare Peter and the beginning of the story and at the end of the story.

Making Connections

This teacher told me her student proudly said, “There are 11 o’s!”  Love it!

Opinion Writing

In general, we include an opinion writing piece every Friday in our Engaging Readers.   This gives students an authentic reason to write while practicing this very important skill.

You can find all of the activities shown above by clicking:

• Engaging Readers:  Ezra Jack Keats Peter’s Chair Lesson

Ezra Jack Keats Peter’s Chair Lesson: STEM

For a STEM activity, students plan and create a chair that will hold a specified weight.

You can find this STEM activity with additional math and literacy activities by clicking:

• Engaging Readers STEM:  Ezra Jack Keats Peter’s Chair Lesson

Ezra Jack Keats Peter’s Chair Lesson: video

It is always nice to have a different voice reading the story to the students.  I like to use a video on Fridays!  This is a great one!

Math and Literacy Centers for the week

Here are some literacy center ideas.  If you click on the images, it will take you to the unit.

Here are some math center ideas.  If you click on the images, it will take you to the unit.

LESSON PLANS

You may download these lesson plans.  I have used Hello Literacy Fonts (which are free for non-commercial use).  You may want to download her fonts and install them on your computer first.  This way the formatting will not be off.  Naturally, you can change the fonts if you prefer. Download these plans by clicking HERE or on the image below.

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