Teach inference and strong verbs in writing using the. The wonderful jan bretts version of a ukrainian fairy tale the mitten is satisfying in so many ways. Measuring with mittens and other mitten math activities. Jan brett s the mitten is a must for the first day of winter. A great lesson with the books the mitten and the hat is to compare and contrast the two books with your class. The missing mitten mystery by steven kellogg the mitten tree by candace christiansen snowshoe hare by dee phillips missing mittens by stuart j.
Find ideas for activities and lesson plans to use the mitten across the curriculum. You can also ask questions while youre reading the book and after you read the. The mitten teaching ideas, lesson plans, printables. In this reading comprehension lesson, students analyze a story and the effects of the authors words. Responding to literature through writing, studying vocabulary, and a stem activity. The student will be able to recall characters and details from a story. Find picture book kits at your library or purchase them online.
Find more of jan bretts books read alouds on youtube. Making mittens with the mitten book read and discuss the different animals in the mitten book and then try to make. The mitten reading comprehension kindergarten lesson plans. In this wintry episode of nook online storytime, author jan brett reads the mitten. Perhaps you have heard about our guiding readers reading comprehension units, but you have not tried them yet. I wanted to combine them with one of our favorite books the mitten by jan brett. Author jan bretts free coloring, video and activity pages. First, print out the free printable you can find it at the bottom of this post. Use the activities in this asset to bring this book to life and to help students make connections and pull meaning from the story. The children love the illustrations and guessing how many animals will fit into the mitten. Jan bretts winter books jan brett is known for the borders that surround the pages of her books.
After you have compared the two books as a class, have you students team with a buddy. Tresselts mitten bursts apart while brett s keeps stretching. Mitten lesson lesson plan for prek 2nd grade lesson. In this lesson, using the story the mitten by jan brett, students learn how to become good readers by asking questions. In this story, animals squeeze in a mitten to keep warm from the winter cold.
Jan brett s wonderful adaption of the ukrainian folktale the mitten makes a great base for a unit on mittens to use during the winter months with your preschool and kindergarten children. As a group complete a venn diagram on the two stories. Color pages for the characters from the mitten by jan brett. The mitten is a book by jan brett for lower elementary learners.
Books by jan brett have been huge favorites in our house, especially her story the mitten. Students will retell the story as they recall the sequence of the animals as they appear in the story. The mitten preschool activities and crafts kidssoup. The idea is to use these questions to help guide the conversation vs. Youngsters listen to the classic jan brett book, the mitten, then gain strength in utilizing listening skills, developing vocabulary, practicing sequencing events, and expressing themselves through movement and art projects. Activities for a first grade unit on the mitten by jan brett. Author jan brett s free coloring, video and activity pages. The mitten by jan brett, 5 pagesthis crosscurricular product includes over 100 pages of printables to add to your unit for the mitten by jan brett. Our engaging readers units are full of resources for a weeklong book study. The mitten teaching ideas, lesson plans, printables, activities a to. This is the first lesson in a set of questioning lessons designed for primary grades.
Gingerbread baby by jan brett printable animal character masks. This resource has two lesson plans, worksheets, images and the unit outline as well. The mitten reading comprehension lesson plans freebie. Jan brett author study unit part 2 of 5 share my lesson. The mitten this is a multilevel kinderreader that retells the traditional story with a twist. Literary elements in jan brett s the mitten students will analyze such literary elements as plot, causeeffect relationships, sequence, and prediction in jan brett s the mitten. If you have not read the story to your own children, you may purchase the book below. By jan brett the mitten board book hardcover january 1, 1996 4. Grabbing the mitten triumphantly, he takes it back to his grandmothers house. I have used it wish students of a variety of levelsas a simple and charming fairy tale to older students studying the form and learning how powerful the art of illustration is and how critical it is in the successful performance of a story. This packet focuses on language activities for early elementary and late preschool aged children.
Jan bretts wonderful adaption of the ukrainian folktale the mitten makes a great base for a unit on mittens to use during the winter months with your preschool and kindergarten children. The events in the story lend themselves perfectly to coding. They read the book to each other long after the lesson is over. Preschool literacypreschool booksliteracy activities. Conclusion upon completion of this lesson, students will have been exposed to the use of the internet and have enjoyed a literature experience with a jan brett book. Jan bretts the mitten is a must for the first day of winter. Dramatic and sweet, this book will evoke warm and cozy feelings in readers any time of the year. Kindergarten, preschool, winter recently i stumbled across some wonderful free printables to go along.
The mitten by jan brett is a beloved winter book that both young and old adore. Book companion for preschool speech and languagethis is. Click on the link to viewdownload the mitten venn diagrams. The mitten reading comprehension unit for kindergarten. Click here to download one enlarge it to use with your class. This lesson uses bretts book the mitten and is designed for first grade. The students will actively demonstrate enjoyment and understanding of the mitten through their role playing.
Below youll find others that complement the focus book. Preschool literacy, preschool books, literacy activities, preschool crafts, the mitten book. M make an armadillo from a milk carton make your own christmas ornaments make the hat into a play make a hedgie christmas basket make a hedgie from a sock make a hedgehog book make a bird feeder click here for pdf format make a jan brett mobile make a paper chicky chain make a pie plate armadillo make a rain forest. The illustrations are simply amazing, and there are many activities that can be done to encourage learning as we read. Find jan brett lesson plans and teaching resources. Discussing the different parts of the book by allowing the students to pick out their favorite parts. See all 33 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Dec 17, 2016 the mitten by jan brett music midday dance kevin macleod check out my channel s. Our fun activities will help you to teach and your children practice and learn math and language arts concepts and. This was one of my sons favorite winter books when he was growing up, so naturally, it became one of the books that we read over and over again. The mitten by jan brett is a fun winter read aloud. The creatures who take up residence in the mitten are different as are less obvious details.
This mitten lesson lesson plan is suitable for prek 2nd grade. The mitten by jan brett music midday dance kevin macleod check out my channel s. This lesson uses brett s book the mitten and is designed for first grade. Here is a video version of the book that is read by jan brett. Theres also a venn diagram to compare 2 animal characters. Jan brett creates a dramatic picture book with the story of nicki, a young boy who has lost a mitten in the snow and the animals who try to make a home of it. Literary elements in jan bretts the mitten students will analyze such literary elements as plot, causeeffect relationships, sequence, and prediction in jan bretts the mitten. The boy in brett s version is playing while tresselts boy is engaged in more serious enterprise. After you read it, show the class a list of words from the book that may have unfamiliar meanings, like burrowed, jostled, talons, investigate, drowsy and silhouetted. One favorite is retold and illustrated by jan brett g. Jan brett s the mitten is according to her informative authors note a combination, an original fusion of several similar ukrainian folktales in some of these versions, a group of shivering, cold animals find refuge in a discarded pot, whilst in others, it is a huntsmans lost mitten providing shelter, who then unfortunately also starts shooting at the animals inhabiting his mitten when he. The mitten teaching ideas, lessons, printables, and activities. An 11 lesson plan unit for gingerbread baby by jan brett. These are some of the activities our children like to do after reading the book.
Read and discuss the different animals in the mitten book and then try to make mittens that are alike. Comprehensive lesson plan for the mitten by jan brett. This lesson is designed to introduce primary students to the importance of asking questions before, during, and after listening to a story. This interactive lesson features the mitten by jan brett. Jan bretts book the mitten is a consistent hit with my students every year, and its a blast to retell the story i put together this the mitten printable for young kids to work on a variety of early literacy skills how to assemble the emergent reader. The teacher and students may enjoy looking for more books by this author. A collection of projects and activities of books for kids, and classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. My mitten book story retelling kidssoup resource library. The mitten by jan brett preschool lapbook resources march 6, 20 filed under. The mitten by jan brett lesson plans and teaching resources free english learning. The richly illustrated book tells the story of nicki, a young boy who asks for white mittens from his baba grandmother, and promptly loses one, which is explored by several forest animals before it is returned to nicki albeit, a bit stretched out. The mitten by jan brett preschool lapbook resources.
Listen to jan brett read the mitten as well as talk about her other characters and illustrations on her official youtube channel. Children can compare a mitten to a glove, or the mitten story to jan brett s companion story the hat. The mitten by jan brett lesson plans and teaching resources. See more ideas about mitten, winter preschool, book activities. The mitten printable emergent reader for preschool and. The students can listen to the teacher read as well as visually observe the pictures that go along with the book. Jul 15, 2016 this is the second part of a unit study on jan brett. Print mitten pattern and cut out four mitten pages. Jan brett teaching ideas, lesson plans, printables. This portion focuses on the mitten and consists of two lessons, the first lesson focuses on jan brett s version and the second lesson has students compare and contrast that version to the one written by jim aylesworth. Explore jan bretts website for other kidfriendly activities based on the authors books. This portion focuses on the mitten and consists of two lessons, the first lesson focuses on jan bretts version and the second lesson has students compare and contrast that version to the one written by jim aylesworth. The mitten lesson plans for teaching reading comprehension skills. In this lesson, using the story the mitten by jan brett, students learn how to.
The bear sneezes, and all of the animals pop out of the mitten, causing it to sail in the air just as nicki is about to give up. The mitten is a beautiful ukrainian folk story that our family first became familiar with through the jan brett version. The mitten and winter preschool and kindergarten activities, lessons, crafts, and games. Jan 5, 2016 the mitten by jan brett is my favorite winter story. Students engage in developing reading strategies and have wonderful conversations along the way. The mitten book kids reading with english subtitles youtube. The mitten by jan brett adapted interactive book special education, autism, slp. Annie and the wild animals read along the umbrella book and cd the hat book and cd.
Tell them that you are going to go back and read these words in the story and try to figure out their meanings. Murphy the main focus of these lesson plans is jan bretts book the mitten. Jan brett s the mitten can be used to teach sequencing, predicting, and how to retell a story. As she has explained, she has so many ideas for the illustrations that they spill over onto the borders, so the reader is treated to more designs and information along the edges of the book pages. Oct 21, 2017 listen to jan brett read the mitten as well as talk about her other characters and illustrations on her official youtube channel. Discuss the authors use of different kinds of sentences to interest a. This pack includes literacy, math, science, writing, and drama activities, as well as a craft activity. Activities and lesson plans for the mitten by jan brett. Let all students participate in the story by using this adapted and interactive velcro book to teach sequencing, characters, and character traits. Pair this book companion with the mitten to develop speech and language therapy lesson plans for intervention. Just like each of our book units, we included questions to guide you through the text. Each of our children has enjoyed the mitten whether a board books, a paperpack, or. Children can compare a mitten to a glove, or the mitten story to jan bretts companion story the hat. This is the second part of a unit study on jan brett.
Learners utilize computer programs to create a podcast retelling the story in their own words. Dec 01, 2012 teaching a lesson using the mitten by jan brett. The class also publishes their own book about what could fit in their mitten. Jan brett author study the kids will love this flip book.
Jan bretts the mitten can be used to teach sequencing, predicting, and how to retell a story. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. For more fun, use variety of mediums to decorate each picture. Coding activities for the mitten by jan brett lessons for little ones. Jan brett s winter books jan brett is known for the borders that surround the pages of her books. We have plenty of snow covered experiences and chances to talk about adventures in the mitten. The mitten by jan brett is a great book for a first grade unit. Have children cut out the mittens and decorate the covers using crayons, markers, etc.
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