After reading Leo Lionni's story titled "Frederick", students will illustrate a scene from the story.

Cinderella stories and graphic organizers help students with their reading, comprehension, and oral presentation skills.

For this lesson, students choose a book to create a book trailer for usng Adobe Spark Video. The students will identify the characters, setting, and plot points of the story and work to retell the story using key details which they will use as they create their video.

Teachers will show the Scholastic video "Knuffle Bunny; A Cautionary Tale" by Mo WIllems on eMedia or read the story to their students. Students will then cut and paste characters, setting, and plot points from the story into the correct category on a worksheet.

First Grade Language Arts, Reading: Literature Standard 3--Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.  Students will be able retell the setting, characters, and major events in a story and will demonstrate this knowledge through creating a Keynote presentation.

This lesson utilizes the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation (UIT) tale, “Why Buzzard Is a Loner” to enhance comprehension skills, provide an introduction to the importance of personal hygiene and drama. Although some Native American Indian stories can only be told during the winter time, this story can be told any time of the year. The tale will be read aloud to the students who will then dramatize the story as it is read again. Then students will have a presentation from a health practitioner, school counselor or the school nurse on healthy teeth maintenance (i.e., brushing, flossing, rinsing, etc.)Extensions include learning more about birds in Utah and lessons that give more information about the Ute people. The cultural note states, “Just as the birds in this story held a council meeting to decide how to deal with Buzzard. Ute people, to this day, have council meetings to discuss problems and solutions for their people. At these meetings, everyone has the right to express his or her opinion and be heard and listened to.”