Old Jacket, New Jacket

Topic: Identify the major event in a story and how the character responded to it.

I am fortunate enough to be involved with a school that has multiple adults in one classroom, so we get to have the benefits of small group Response to Intervention (RTI) groups each day. I have been working one-on-one with a particular student for the past few weeks, and he is wonderful to work with!

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We read the book Old Jacket, New Jacket by Elliott K. Goldberg, and I introduced the idea of a "picture walk" to the student. We looked at all of the pictures and made predictions before reading the text. After we read the story, we completed a character response worksheet.

"She did not like the jacket.
She made the jacket new.
She got beads and stars and hearts."

I realized we finished our character response worksheet a lot earlier than I had planned! So, I rushed to grab a piece of paper and I drew an outline of a jacket, telling the student to make his own jacket "new" just like Iris did.

Student's "new" jacket creation!

Once he finished with his jacket, he looked at me and said, "I want to draw a picture just like the jacket in the story!" (Happy teacher moment!) So, we grabbed another piece of paper and drew our own interpretation of the character's new jacket!

New jacket!