My Caterpillar Loves to Eat!

In this lesson, students will listen to the teacher read aloud the well-loved book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Students will collaboratively practice retelling the story with a partner and record the food that the caterpillar ate on a class chart. Using their imagination, students will create a sentence and accompanying illustration of what their caterpillar would eat using the high frequency word ‘and’. Teachers are provided with a rubric to assess how the students are using punctuationusing punctuation, capitalization, finger spacing, and phonetic spelling.

Resource ID#: 47414 Type: Lesson Plan

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General Information

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): K

Intended Audience: Educators

Instructional Time: 1 Hour(s)

Resource supports reading in content area:Yes
Freely Available: Yes

Keywords: caterpillars, Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, writing conventions, writing rubric, high frequency word, retelling, food

Instructional Component Type(s): Lesson Plan, Text Resource, Formative Assessment

Instructional Design Framework(s): Direct Instruction

Resource Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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