So in the spirit of keeping with my Kindergarten reading theme, I found another very cute and interesting lesson plan to complete with the students. This lesson plan is called the Narrative Text Structure Story Question Cube. The Story Cube itself contains the questions: What happens in the story (beginning, middle, end)? When does the story take place (time)? How was the problem solved? Where does the story take place? Who are the characters? Why did the problem happen? The cube is put in the middle of the table of the group of students. Each student also has a student answer sheet, with different general questions about the story. After reading the story, each student takes turns rolling the cube. They then answer whatever question the cube landed on, on their answer sheets. They continue this until the answer sheet is complete!
One teaching strategy that is used in this lesson plan is the strategy of discussion. They students all need to talk to each other about what they think the answer might be and why it is that answer. This also means that another teaching strategy used in the lesson plan would be cooperative learning. They all worked together in groups playing the "game" and helping each other discover the answers to the cube's questions. The lesson plan also used the active learning strategy because it gave the students a chance to be active by using a hands-on activity to learn reading comprehension.
I really love this lesson plan! I am a kinesthetic learner myself and I feel that it will benefit most if I teach that way because it will allow me to give all I can. (This is not saying however that I will ignore other learning style, just saying this one I think works out best for my teaching style). I also think that it is good, especially for students at such a young age, to be shown these different fun learning projects so they know that everything is not all lecture and busy work. :)
This is an example of what the story cube might look like.This is the website where I found this lesson plan:
http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_011a.pdf
