The Mitten by Jan Brett
Lesson plans and teaching resources

Students will describe animals as they review nouns and verbs associated with these animals. They will learn to use adjectives as they describe the animals. They will use this knowledge to write their stories about animals. This lesson uses Brett's book The Mitten and is designed for first grade.

Students will analyze such literary elements as plot, cause-effect relationships, sequence, and prediction in Jan Brett's The Mitten . Students will enjoy predicting upcoming story events and retelling the story from a dialogue that shows a text-to-self relationship.

"Students will analyze such literary elements as plot, cause-effect relationships, sequence, and prediction in Jan Brett's The Mitten. Students will enjoy predicting upcoming story events and retelling the story from a dialogue that shows a text-to-self relationship."

This 5-day unit plan also includes related stories and crosscurricular activities.

Practice with retelling the story and with letters and sounds.

In this technology-integrated lesson, students respond to listening by answering comprehension questions, retelling the story as a skit, and writing to the author.

Learning centers for art, drama, play, "big book," and science.

Summary and supporting activities.

This extensive unit includes uses The Mitten to teach sequencing in Lesson Plan Two.

Students color animals and mittens. They tape the mittens together and put the animals inside. Good sponge activity. Adobe Reader required.

Students practice sequencing skills. This lesson is differentiated for 3 groups.