Room on the Broom Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans & Anchor Charts Worksheets
Room on the Broom Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans & Anchor Charts
Plot, Sequencing & Character Traits Activities | First Read
Make your Room on the Broom read-aloud meaningful, organized, and easy to teach with this first-read lesson plan and anchor chart set. Students practice essential reading comprehension skills as they identify plot, sequence important events, analyze character traits, and discuss the story using clear visual supports.
This low-prep literacy resource helps you guide a focused whole-group or small-group lesson without creating materials from scratch. Use the anchor charts to model thinking, support discussion, and give students a lasting reference for story elements and comprehension.
What’s Included
First-read lesson plan for Room on the Broom: A ready-to-follow instructional outline that helps you introduce the text, guide student thinking, and lead a purposeful comprehension discussion during the first reading.
Plot anchor chart: A visual teaching tool for identifying the story’s important events and discussing how the plot develops from beginning to end.
Story sequencing anchor chart: A student-friendly reference for organizing key events in the correct order and retelling the story using beginning, middle, and end language.
Character traits anchor chart: A visual support that helps students describe characters, identify traits, and connect those traits to actions and details from the story.
Comprehension discussion supports: Prompts and guidance designed to encourage oral responses, text-based thinking, partner talk, and whole-class conversation.
Response support: Structured guidance students can use to explain their thinking about plot, sequence, and character traits after reading.
Flexible teaching materials: Components that can be used together for a complete lesson or separately for whole-group instruction, small groups, intervention, review, or a literacy center.
Why Teachers Love It
Saves planning time with a ready-to-use lesson structure
Targets multiple reading comprehension skills in one familiar story
Provides visual support for emerging readers and diverse learners
Works for whole-group instruction, small groups, read-aloud lessons, or literacy centers
Makes student thinking visible through guided discussion and anchor charts
Skills Covered
Reading comprehension, plot, beginning-middle-end, story sequencing, character traits, story elements, oral language, and text-based discussion.
Perfect For
Halloween or fall read-alouds, October literacy lessons, story-element review, substitute plans, and book-based reading comprehension practice.