Harcourt Reading Jan. 7-11

Monday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 1

Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted.

1.  Sharing Literature with Big Book, From Head to Toe---recognize action words (verbs)---teacher’s guide pg. 62H

2.  Identify Initial Phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 62H

3.  Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 62J

4.  Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 62M

5.  Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People (Proper Nouns)---teacher’s guide pg. 62N

6.  Read Decodable Book 11 story, “Mort’s Trip To the Store” and accelerated reader testing

Tuesday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 2

Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted

1.  Sharing Literature with poem, “How To Eat a Poem”---figurative language---teacher’s guide pg. 62P

2.  Identify Initial Digraphs qu, wh---teacher’s guide pg. 62P

3.  Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 62Q

4.  Discuss story words (Grandpa, library, name, stories, teacher, Texas, Tomas Rivera)----teacher’s guide pg. 62S middle

5.  Word Power (about, books, by, family, grew, read, work, writing)---teacher’s guide and textbook pgs. 62-63

6.  Prereading (preview, predict, set purpose, character, sequence/summarize)---teacher’s guide pg. 63A

7.  Discuss story genre biography---teacher’s guide and textbook pg. 64

8.  Class will read the story, “Tomas Rivera” and teacher will ask guided comprehension questions---teacher’s guide pg. 65-80

9.  Retell and Summarize the story---teacher’s guide pg. 83A

10. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 83B

11. Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg. 83C

Wednesday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 3

Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted.

1.  Sharing Literature with poem, “Story Time” (imaginary and fantasy)---teacher’s guide pg. 83E

2.  Phoneme Isolation---teacher’s guide pg. 83E

3.  Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 83E

4.  Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 83F

5.  High Frequency Words---teacher’s guide pg. 83I

6.  Discuss story genre biography and reread and discuss story, “Tomas Rivera”---textbook pgs. 64-80

7.  Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 85A

8.  Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg. 85B

9.  Read Decodable Book 11 story, “The Fort” and accelerated reader testing

Thursday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 4

Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted

1.  Sharing Literature with poem, “Grandma’s Lap” (multi-meaning words)---teacher’s guide pg. 85D

2.  Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 85D

3.  Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 85E

4.  High Frequency Words---teacher’s guide pg. 85H

5.  Discuss story genre biography and reread and discuss story, “Tomas Rivera”---textbook pgs. 64-80

6.  Comprehension: Character (practice and apply recognizing character traits)---teacher’s guide pg. 85I, 86-87, textbook pgs. 86-87

7.  Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 87A

8.  Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg. 87B

Friday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 5

Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted

1.  Sharing Literature with Big Book, From Head to Toe---listening comprehension discussing character traits and extending the pattern---teacher’s guide pg. 87D

2.  Phoneme Isolation---teacher’s guide pg. 87D

3.  Phoneme Addition---teacher’s guide pg. 87D

4.  Inflections –es---teacher’s guide pg. 87E

5.  Words to Remember---teacher’s guide pg. 87H

6.  Reread and discuss story, “Tomas Rivera”----textbook pgs. 64-80

7.  Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 87K

8.  Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg. 87L

9.  Read Decodable Book 11 story, “More Corn” and accelerated reader testing