Objectives:

• Students will be able to name the parts of the book.
• Students will be able to name what an author and illustrator are.
• Students will be able to retell the events in the story.
• Students will be able to tell how a pumpkin is grown.

Hawaii Content Standards:

• Use strategies within the reading processes to construct meaning - Make reasonable predictions about what will happen in a story.
• Respond to texts from a range of stances: initial understanding, personal, interpretive, critical - Share information from text.
• Using Unifying Concepts and Themes - Scale - describe changes in the size, weight, color, or movement of things, and note which of their qualities remain the same.

Materials:

• Book - "The Pumpkin Patch"
• Worksheet with 4 boxes on each side
• Crayons

Procedures:

1. Point to the front of the book and ask what it is called.

2. Point to the back of the book and ask students what it is called.

3. Point to the spine of the book and ask them what it is called.

4. Have students look at the cover and ask them, What do you think is going to happen in the story? What do you think this book is going to be about ?"

5. Read the title of the book, the author's name, and the illustrator's name.

6. Ask students, What is an author? What is an illustrator? What do they do?

7. Begin reading the story.

8. During the reading stop and discuss new vocabulary such as hoe, shears, bulb, etc. I will have them read the word as I point to it, to familarize them with the new vocabulary.

9. After reading, I will ask students, Who can tell me what happened by raising their hands? How did the pumpkin grow? What happened?

10. Discuss how the growth of a pumpkin is a cycle.

11. Explain that they will need to go back to their seats and in the boxes draw the different stages of the pumpkin growing. For example the first box would have seeds drawn in the box.

12. Walk around and monitor. Help students write the different stages below their drawing only if they cannot.

Assessment:

• Students oral responses during discussion
• Completed worksheet with stages of the pumpkin drawn in

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