Interactive Read Aloud

Name: Jenna Komarin Grade: 5th Date: 9/29/11

Angelina’s island by jeanette winter

Lesson Procedure

Time / Teacher Actions / Student Learning Activities / Form of Assessment
3 minutes / 1. Connection
Sometimes families move from a place that they consider home to somewhere new and unfamiliar. When this happens, it can be difficult to adjust for children and grownups alike—whether it be to a new house in the same city or town, a new city or town in the same state, a new state altogether, or even a new country. When we leave our home for somewhere unfamiliar, it can feel like our world has been turned upside down. It can feel, look, sound, smell, and be so different from what we’re used to. But when we’re faced with life changes, it’s important to remember that we can still find ways to feel at home no matter where we are.
We’re now going to read Angelina’s Island, written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter. As we read, I want you to think about what home looks like, feels like, and sounds like to Angelina, and how she comes to understand what it means for her to be home.
17 minues / 2. The Read Aloud
Every day I tell Mama, I want to go home. Every day she tells me, We are home, Angelina. New York is home now.
But this is not home—it doesn’t sound like home, it doesn’t look like home, it doesn’t feel like home.
Every night I dream of my island in the sun.
I dream that the airplane that brought me here is taking me back home to Jamaica. I don’t want to wake up and leave my sunny dreams.
Q: What are you noticing about Angelina so far and what’s keeping her from feeling like she’s at home in New York City?
Every morning I tell Mama, I want to go home. Every morning she tells me, we are home, Angelina. Eat your breakfast. But I want my island food.
Q: When Mama says “We are home, Angelina. Eat your breakfast,” what message is she trying to send to Angelina?
I dream about mangos, guavas, papayas, green bananas, star apples, breadfruit, callaloo, chocho, johnnycake, sugarcane, ackee, and salt fish. And I wake up hungry.
Q: What does this tell you about Angelina’s dreams?
The tall buildings hide the sun and the sky.
In my dreams the sun warms my head, and the sand warms my feet, and the sky is always blue.
Q: In what ways does Angelina think differently about the sun and sky in New York as she does about the sun and sky in Jamaica?
I want this bus I ride to school to take me back home.
I close my eyes and feel my toes in the dust of a dirt road, walking to my island school. The bus stops and I open my eyes to the cold city.
The bird on my window ledge has gray feathers. Would his feathers turn red and yellow and green under the Jamaica sun?
I close my eyes and fly home. Rainbow-colored birds surround me. But when I open my eyes the gray bird still sits on the ledge.
What are you noticing about Angelina when she closes her eyes? Where does her imagination take her?
Mama and Papa tell me we have a better life here. But I miss Mama all day while she world. I miss Papa all night while he works.
Q: What are Mama and Papa trying to tell Angelina when they say they have a better life here?
And I miss my grandma all the time. I talk to her in my dreams.
I don’t know the new games here. I want to play the old games I know from Jamaica.
I close my eyes and remember dancing at Carnival with my friends, our costumes glowing like fire.
Then one day Mama sees something in the newspaper. Angelina will like this, she says to herself.
Angelina is missing home, she tells some ladies. Can she join in the parade? Yes, of course, but definitely, the ladies answer. I still want to go home, I tell Mama. Just wait, she tells me.
Q: What’s happening here?
Mama takes me to the costume place. The ladies measure me. Your costume must fit just so, they say.
I see ladies cutting cloth. You will glow like the sun, they say.
I see men bending wire. We are making your wings, they say.
I see ladies sewing shiny beads on the cloth. You will shine like the stars, they say.
Every day I practice dancing for the parade. I tell Mama, I still want to go home. Just wait, she says.
Q: When have you heard this before in the text?
At last Carnival day is here. Mama sprinkles glitter on my face. The music begins—this sounds like home!
This looks like home!
This feels like home!
Q: What’s happening to Angelina and how do you know?
I’m home, Mama.
This is my island in the sun.
5 minutes / 3. Turn and Talk
Q: Based on what we know now, what are some ways that Angelina has found a way to feel at home in New York City? How has Angelina’s definition of home changed for her by the end of the book? Have you ever struggled to feel at home somewhere? What was making it hard for you and what did you do to find ways to feel at home in a new place?
Anticipated Responses/Outcomes:
·  What range of responses are you looking for?
·  What kinds of strategies do you think students will use?
·  How will stronger and weaker students work through activity?
5 minutes / 4. Closing and recording
Anticipated Responses/Outcomes:
5. Follow Up
What will students do to practice what they learned during the read aloud?
What mini-lesson might be developed from this reading? / ·  How are students going to review/practice what they learned during the read aloud? / ·  How will you assess the application of the strategy or comprehension of the key element you wanted to demonstrate using the text?

Reflections:

How did the lesson plan work? What was effective? What did you learn? What would you change for tomorrow or the next time you will use this plan?

Jenna

This plan looks fine. There are some places in the text where you might probe for more understanding of the kind of person Alia is, based on her actions. I think ---for purposes of your first read aloud, your plan will work well

You might be tight for time in one session. We can definitely make it work in one session on Monday, so I think it would work out best for Monday.

The connection to Irag on map and globe is timely, as they worked with maps and the globe last week. It’s going to fit nicely. Also, the NY Times article can be shared in MM, so that sets a nice context for the read aloud.

Make sure you have your recorder tomorrow!

Let me know if you need anything else.