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Pre Beginner Story Bank
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Activity Description
Students can choose different stories to read. Each story has 4 activities plus a typing practice.
Preparation
- Check the website to ensure it is not blocked at your site.
- Download the PDF file with all the readings. This will require you to give the Literacy Association of Minnesota your name and email.
- We will be using the story on Mr. White is Sick. Please read through this before you teach the lesson.
- Read through the lesson plan.
- Print and make copies of any handouts.
Teacher Tips
You will need to copy all the activities to your Google Drive in order to be able to preview them. The button that says preview does not allow you to interact with the activity.
The color vowel activity is quite complicated. You might now want to use this activity.
More Ways
You can have students read the stories aloud with you or as a group.
Program Areas
- ESL: English as a Second Language
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
Levels
- Beginning Literacy
- Beginning Low
- Beginning High
Lesson Plan
Review the parts of the body before doing this lesson. Here are flashcards to do that. Project the picture and have students think about what the story will be about. For this activity, I will review "Mr. White is Sick. " Ask the students how does the man in the picture feel? What is he doing?
Today you are going to read the story, "Mr. White is Sick." You will learn some new words and practice some reading, writing, and typing.
The story has an immersive reader. If you click on the icon, students can hear the story read to them. Read the story to the students and have them repeat it. Highlight the new words such as happy, sick, head, hurts, neck, hurts, tired, sleep, and What's the matter?
Have students go into groups or breakout rooms (if doing remotely) and practice in pairs. Encourage groups to use the immersive readers in their groups.
Make a copy of the document titled sentence builder. Have the students order the sentences. If doing the lesson remotely, have them type the sentence in the chat box.
Make a copy of the phonics activity. The blue cards are added to the yellow cards to make words. Show the students how to do this and have them practice in small groups. Ask them to write down the words they make.
Put students in groups and have them make 4 words. Have them underline the one they saw in the story.
Have the students get into pairs and read the story again. Walk around the room and listen to how they are reading. Help them if they are having problems. Ask students to try the typing practice.
They can do this either at home or in the school computer lab. Because it is typing they will need a keyboard to use for this activiy.
Standards
- Reading Foundational Skills
- RF.2 - Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). (Phonological Awareness)
- RF.3 - Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. (Phonics and Word Recognition)
- RF.4 - Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (Fluency)
- Reading
- CCR Anchor 4 - Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Speaking and Listening
- CCR Anchor 1 - Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
- CCR Anchor 2 - Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- Language
- CCR Anchor 3 - Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
- CCR Anchor 4 - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
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