Lesson Plan: Learning Plot, using Sushi!

The Fujimini Island Adventure Series provides fun, vibrant, Asian inspired stories for kids in pre-school up second grade.

Here is a lesson plan idea for teachers or parents for grades K-1. This lesson plan focuses on plot.
Supplies: The book Red Penguin and the Missing Sushi by Eileen Wacker (order here), crayons, ruler, pencils

Objective: Learn about plot

1. Read Red Penguin and the Missing Sushi to your child or students.
2. Discuss plot with your child or students. Plot describes what happens in a story or the events that place in sequence.
3. Discuss the plot of Red Penguin and the Missing Sushi with your child and students. Prompt them by saying, “And then what happened?”
4. On a board place events on a chart with the labels – beginning, middle and end.
5. Have your child or students copy the plot diagram onto a sheet of paper using crayons, pencils and a ruler. 

To learn more about the Fujimini Adventure Series books, click here.