Use this engaging lesson plan to introduce the concept of perspective and story sequencing to your ELs. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Put Me in the Zoo.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Put Me in the Zoo lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to identify characters, settings, and major events in a familiar story.
Language
Students will be able to retell a story with complete sentences using a graphic organizer.
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Pass out an index card to each student and tell them to draw a picture of themselves at recess.
Tell students to turn to a partner and trade their index cards. Have the partners guess what they are doing in the picture.
Have each student practice retelling what is happening in their partner's card.
Provide students with a sentence frame to help them discuss what is going on in their partner's picture. Model this for the students prior to allowing them to share. Use the following sentence frame: "I think (student name) is (action) because (support from illustration)."
Explain that because each person is different, each of their pictures shows something special or unique. This is their perspective.