Moon Rooster/ David and Phillis Gershator Suggested Time to Spend: 5 Days (Recommendation: one-two sessions per day, at least 20 minutes per session) Common Core grade-level ELA/Literacy Standards: RL.1.1, RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.1.4, RL.1.10; W.1.2, W.1.8; SL.1.2, SL.1.4, SL.1.5; L.1.1, L.1.4 Lesson Objective: Students will listen to a story read aloud and use literacy skills (reading, writing, discussion and listening) determine a main idea of the story and to begin to wonder about the phases of the moon. Teacher Instructions Before the Lesson Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis below. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description to help you prepare to teach the book and be clear about what you want your children to take away from the work. Focusing Question: Why does the Moon Rooster think his crowing brings up the moon? Because the moon gets bigger when he crows and gets smaller or doesn’t appear at all when he stops. Synopsis: Moon Rooster notices that the sky is dark and realizes there is no one to help it come up. He then takes on the task of cockadoodledooing each night to raise the moon, much to the irritation of the humans around him who cannot sleep
Moon Rooster/ David and Phillis Gershator Suggested Time to Spend: 5 Days (Recommendation: one-two sessions per day, at least 20 minutes per session) Common Core grade-level ELA/Literacy Standards: RL.1.1, RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.1.4, RL.1.10; W.1.2, W.1.8; SL.1.2, SL.1.4, SL.1.5; L.1.1, L.1.4 Lesson Objective: Students will listen to a story read aloud and use literacy skills (reading, writing, discussion and listening) determine a main idea of the story and to begin to wonder about the phases of the moon. Teacher Instructions Before the Lesson Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis below. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description to help you prepare to teach the book and be clear about what you want your children to take away from the work. Focusing Question: Why does the Moon Rooster think his crowing brings up the moon? Because the moon gets bigger when he crows and gets smaller or doesn’t appear at all when he stops. Synopsis: Moon Rooster notices that the sky is dark and realizes there is no one to help it come up. He then takes on the task of cockadoodledooing each night to raise the moon, much to the irritation of the humans around him who cannot sleep
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