Interactive Read Aloud Sample

Interactive Read Aloud Sample

1st Nine Weeks - 1st Row

3-1.5 Analyze the relationship among characters, setting, and plot in a given literary text.

3-1.8 Classify work of fiction, including fables, tall tales, and folk tales and non-fiction including biographies by characteristics.

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3-5.7 Summarize the rights and responsibilities that contemporary South Carolinians have in the schools, the community, the state, and the nation.

3-3.4 Outline the current structure of state government, including the branches of government; the names of the representative bodies; and the role that cities, towns, and counties play in this system.

Book: The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison

Book Introduction: This book is about the journey of a wooden figure that travels form South Carolina to California. We keep up with his journey through the postcards and letters sent back to South Carolina from the different people who take him on his journey.

Day 1 Questions:

Interactive Read Aloud Questions / Correlation to Standard / Testing as a Genre Item
Prior to reading the teacher needs to project or copy the map found at the back of the book.
With each letter that is read it will be necessary for the teacher and students to refer to the map at the back of the book to follow his journey. / 3-2.6 Use graphic features (including illustrations, graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, and graphic organizers) as sources of information. / What is the main problem in the story?
a. Nobody knew if Oliver would make it to California.
b. The Native American grandfather helped Oliver get to Utah.
c. The bull could have sat on Oliver and broken him.
d. The whole family went back to South Carolina along with Oliver.
Test Strategy: Isolating main problem from smaller events.
3-1.5 Analyze the relationship among characters, setting, and plot in a given literary text.
Read to the end of the page where Oliver is sitting on a rock.
Point out the illustration of Oliver sitting on a rock holding a sign that says “California or bust”
If you and your family were driving would you want to stop and pick him up? Why or why not? Turn and talk. / 3-1.2 Analyze a given literary text to make, revise, and confirm predictions and draw conclusions.
Read to the end of the June 8th Letter
What evidence from the text lets us know how Cherry and Sherry feel about Oliver?
Turn and Talk
Does the illustration add to that? Explain. / 3-1.5 Analyze the relationship among characters, setting, and plot in a given literary text.
Read to the end of the June 11th Letter –
Of all the people who have given Oliver a ride today which one might he have enjoyed the most if he were real?
Turn and Talk
Which one do you think he might have enjoyed the least?
Discuss / 3-1.5 Analyze the relationship among characters, setting, and plot in a given literary text.
3-1.2 Analyze a given literary text to make, revise, and confirm predictions and draw conclusions.
Read to the end of the June 28th letter –
Did the writer or the illustrator give us any clues as to why it has been so long since Uncle Ray has heard from Oliver?
Discuss
Do you think anyone will find him and pick him up?
Turn and Talk / 3-1.2 Analyze a given literary text to make, revise, and confirm predictions and draw conclusions.

Day 2 Questions:

Interactive Read Aloud Questions / Correlation to Standard / Testing as a Genre Item
Read to the end of the July 1st letter -
How does Tamika’s mother probably feel about her younger brother, Uncle Ray?
Turn and Talk
What evidence do we have from the text?
Discuss / 3-1.5 Analyze the relationship among character, setting, and plot in a given literary.
3-1.2 Analyze a given literary text to make, revise, and confirm predictions and draw conclusions.
Read to the end of the page where Oliver is in the desert.
Point out the illustration of the desert and Native American -
What is it about the setting that makes it so important for this Native American to have found Oliver? / 3-1.5 Analyze the relationship among character, setting, and plot in a given literary.
3-1.2 Analyze a given literary text to make, revise, and confirm predictions and draw conclusions.
Read to the end of the July 28th Letter-
If Oliver had not been there to protect the family what might the family have done to protect themselves? / 3-1.2 Analyze a given literary text to make, revise, and confirm predictions and draw conclusions.

Day 3 Questions:

Read to the end of the August 1st Letter –
What might have made the family change their mind about going to South Carolina? / 3-1.10 Analyze cause and effect relationships in literary texts.
Today we are going to read a newspaper article that is printed after Oliver returns to South Carolina. Newspaper articles always have facts and the language sounds different from letter writing.
Listen for the facts you think are important for someone who wants to see Oliver.
Read September 15th Newspaper Article
Discuss / 3-1.1 Analyze the details that support the expression of the main idea in a given literary text.
Finish reading the book.
How many different states did Oliver K. Woodman stop in on his way to California?
Why do we see three places marked on the map when Oliver did not travel through them?
If we were adding arrows to the map to show his trip over to California and then his trip back to South Carolina, which way would each arrow be pointing? / 3-2.6 Use graphic features (including illustrations, graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, and graphic organizers) as sources of information.