Analyze Your Learners:
This lesson will be taught to a 1st grade class.
LA.A.1.1 "predicts what a passage is about based on its title and illustrations."
LA.C.1.1 "retells specific details of information heard, including sequence of events."
VA.B.1.1 "uses the elements of art and the principles of design to effectively communicate ideas."
LA.B.1.1 "makes a plan for writing that includes a central and related ideas."

State Your Objectives:
Monday:

• Using a large book, "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie", the students, as a group, will identify the missing word in the book by interpreting the picture. This will be done in a relaxed setting and any answer that is not silly will be correct.
• Using the student activity page, the students will work in groups of 3 and re-read the story while writing notes about the details.

Tuesday:

• Students will effectively communicate, from memory, the details of the story in a group setting to refresh from the day before.
• Using the various materials provided, each student will re-create their favorite scene in the story on a page provided. This should be taken seriously and the students are expected to make an appropriate picture.
• Have the class, one at a time, place their scene where it belongs on the time-line. This should be done with 100% accuracy.
• Using the website provided, students should play 2 games with mouse that will provide them with a fun activity while learning.

Wednesday:

• Using a blank sheet of paper, students will create their own story starting with "If you give a first grader chips...". They will identify 4 possible results with pictures.
• Then, have the class come together and everyone will share what they wrote in their story. If they did not do it there will be a zero given.
• Later, on the student activity page, students will add one out of their 4 results to the on-line class story.

Thursday:

• The entire class will all together read "If You Give a Pig a Pancake", while identifying words that are interpreted from the pictures.
• Students will work separately to determine the similarities and differences between the two books. This will be done on the Student Activity Page. Every student needs at least 5 similarities and 5 differences.

Friday:

• Students will write down what the believe would happen if the roles were reversed and the boy was asking for a cookie. They will list 4 possibly results. Then the class will discuss.
• Cookies and milk will be passed out.
• Students will watch the movie "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and then identify the things they liked about the story.
• Using a coloring sheet students must pretend that they are now the illustrator and complete the entire picture.

Select Media and Materials:
computers/Internet
books:

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
If You Give a Pig a Pancake

sticky notes
blank paper
crayons, markers, string, glitter, popsicle sticks, buttons, glue
clothesline and clothespins
cookies, milk, cups, napkins
movie: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
TV/DVD or VCR
coloring sheets

Utilize Your Media:
Use computers for students to access the Student Activity Page.
Use sticky notes to cover words in the book so students can identify through interpretation.
Use the clothesline and clothespins to create a time-line with scenes the students make.
Use the TV for the movie to play in.

Require Learner Participation:

In this week, I plan for my students to be able to understand the book, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". I want my students to understand the

concept of cause and effect and I want them to use it in their own stories. I also want them to be able to put the parts of the story in chronological order. I feel all of these activities include good practice for reading comprehension exams. More specifically, on Thursday, when the other book is introduced, I am looking for the children to notice the relation between the books. I also want the class working together on their communication and cooperation skills.

As far as the technology aspect of this lesson plan, I would like the children to get used to using the Student Activity Page so they will become

familiar and fluent with it. I also am using many of the activities on their page in order to keep them entertained. I feel that they will become easily bored if I continue to use the same type of materials. Also, I am playing the movie at the end of the week only if all the activities during the week go well with no behavioral problems. The movie is placed as a reward.

Evaluate and Revise:

After the students have read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", made a time-line out of their art work, created their own stories, compared the

two different books, and completed all their activities on the Student Activity Page, I will access whether the lessons helped the students further their learning or whether there are modifications that need to be made in order to enhance the lesson.