Format
1. Vocabulary Discussion
2. Spiders—what are they? (Science integration)
3. Observation of various spiders and spider characteristics
4. Author/illustrator discussion
5. Story Time: Cobweb Christmas by Shirley Climo
6. Literature Discussion and Review
7. Brief discussion on other holiday traditions and folklore
8. Problem Solving Game
Objectives
Students will be able to:
1. Brainstorm Christmas traditions
2. Identify the main characteristics of a spider
3. Explain the difference between an author and illustrator
4. Answer questions about the story to demonstrate comprehension
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Language Arts-Grades K-12
NL.ENG.K-12.3 Evaluation Strategies
Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
NL.ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
NL.ENG.K-12.5 Communication Strategies
Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
NL.ENG.K-12.6 Applying Knowledge
Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non-print texts.
State Standards
Ohio Academic Standards
Kindergarten
Science
Life Sciences Standard
1. Explore differences between living and nonliving things (e.g., plant-rock).
2. Discover that stories (e.g., cartoons, movies, comics) sometimes give plants and animals characteristics they really do not have (e.g., talking flowers).
5. Investigate observable features of plants and animals that help them live in different kinds of places.
Language Arts
Acquisition of Vocabulary Standard
1. Understand new words from the context of conversations or from the use of pictures within a text.
2. Recognize and understand words, signs and symbols seen in everyday life.
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
3. Know the differences between illustrations and print.
4. Visualize the information in texts, and demonstrate this by drawing pictures, discussing images in texts or dictating simple descriptions.
5. Predict what will happen next, using pictures and content as a guide.
6. Compare information (e.g., recognize similarities) in texts using prior knowledge and experience.
7. Recall information from a story by sequencing pictures and events.
8. Answer literal questions to demonstrate comprehension of orally read grade-appropriate texts.
9. Monitor comprehension of orally read texts by asking and answering questions.
Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text Standard
1. Use pictures and illustrations to aid comprehension.
2. Identify and discuss the sequence of events in informational text.
3. Tell the main idea of a selection that has been read aloud.
5. Follow simple directions.
Reading Applications: Literary Text Standard
2. Identify the characters and setting in a story.
3. Retell or re-enact a story that has been heard.
4. Distinguish between fantasy and reality.
5. Recognize predictable patterns in stories.
Technology Standard:
a.K.6 Recognize the connection between technology and other fields of study (e.g., technology can be used to make or create music or musical instruments).
Grade 1:
Science
Life Sciences Standard
1. Explore that organisms, including people, have basic needs which include air, water, food, living space and shelter.
3. Explore that humans and other animals have body parts that help to seek, find and take in food when they are hungry (e.g., sharp teeth, flat teeth, good nose, sharp vision).
Language Arts
Acquisition of Vocabulary Standard
4. Recognize common sight words.
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
1. Describe the role of authors and illustrators.
3. Visualize the information in texts, and demonstrate this by drawing pictures, discussing images in texts or writing simple descriptions.
4. Make predictions while reading, and support these predictions with information from the text or prior experience.
5. Compare information (e.g., recognize similarities) in texts with prior knowledge and experience.
6. Recall the important ideas in fictional and non-fictional texts.
8. Answer literal, simple inferential and evaluative questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate print texts, electronic and visual media.
9. Monitor comprehension of independently- or group-read texts by asking and answering questions.
Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text Standard
2. Identify the sequence of events in informational text.
3. Ask questions concerning essential elements of informational text (e.g., why, who, where, what if and how).
4. Identify central ideas and supporting details of informational text with teacher assistance.
6. Follow multi-step directions.
Reading Applications: Literary Text Standard
e.1.1 Provide own interpretation of story using information from the text.
e.1.2 Identify characters, setting and events in a story.
e.1.3 Retell the beginning, middle and ending of a story including its important events.
Technology Standard:
a.1.6 Describe the connections between technology and other fields of study (e.g., teachers use computers, scientists use microscopes, farmers use tractors).
Grade 2
Science
Life Sciences Standard
4. Compare similarities and differences among individuals of the same kind of plants and animals, including people.
Language Arts
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
1. Establish a purpose for reading (e.g., to be informed, to follow directions or to be entertained).
2. Predict content, events and outcomes from illustrations and prior experience, and support those predictions with examples from the text or background knowledge.
3. Compare and contrast information in texts with prior knowledge and experience.
4. Summarize text by recalling main ideas and some supporting details.
6. Answer literal, inferential and evaluative questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate print texts, electronic and visual media.
Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text Standard
1. Use the table of contents, glossary, index, captions and illustrations to identify information and to comprehend text.
2. Arrange events from informational text in sequential order.
4. Classify ideas from informational texts as main ideas or supporting details
Reading Applications: Literary Text Standard
1. Compare and contrast different versions of the same story.
2. Describe characters and setting.
3. Retell the plot of a story.
4. Distinguish between stories, poems, plays, fairy tales and fables.
6. Identify the theme of a text.
Technology Standard:
a.2.8 Explore the use of technology in different fields of study (e.g., school subjects, careers and technologies common to them).