Character/Setting/Plot Lesson & TARGET:ELEMENTARY:Books for Sequencing Lessons

["Martha E. Taylor" <Marliztay@AOL.COM>]

To fellow LM_NETTERS:
     I have been doing lessons with first grade classes this week that have been 
working out great. I've been trying to elicit from the children the characters, 
setting and plot of stories by Kevin Henkes (such as Owen and Jessica)and by Helen 
Lester (such as Listen Buddy and Tacky the Penguin). I have them try to answer the 
questions who? for characters, where? for setting and what? for the plot and we try 
to pick out the beginning, middle and end which translates as: what we find out 
about the main character first, the problem that he or she finds himself in, and 
how it is solved.
The above mentioned books are just perfect for this lesson.
      To continue along these lines I'd like to do some
sequencing lessons where the children can number the events that occurred in the 
book.  Can you think of any particularly good titles for this type of lesson for 
1st graders?  Your help is much appreciated. (I'll compile and post a HIT).

Martha Taylor, LMS
Oakside Elementary School
Peekskill, NY 10566
marliztay@aol.com

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