Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing

Sept. 8-12

12:30-1:10, Supervised Play is from 1:10-1:20, Special Class is from 1:20-2:10, then continue Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing 2:10-3:00

Monday Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing

Day 1 activities “Jack and Rick”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with big book, Let’s Go Visiting---teacher’s guide pg. 72H
  2. Phoneme Isolation (ending sounds)---teacher’s guide pg. 72H
  3. Identify Final Phoneme /k/--teacher’s guide pg. 72H
  4. Word Building with –ck words---teacher’s guide pg. 72J
  5. Daily Language Practice (capitalization, word order)---teacher’s guide pg. 72M
  6. Grammar: Telling Sentences introduce---teacher’s guide pg. 72N
  7. Share a Poem with rhyme, “Good Morning, Mrs. Hen” from Big Book of Rhymes pg. 14

Tuesday Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing

Day 2 activities “Jack and Rick”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with poem, “A New Friend”—pantomine actions---teacher’s guide pg. 72P
  2. Phoneme Isolation (beginning sounds)---teacher’s guide pg. 72P
  3. Identify /k/ phoneme location---teacher’s guide pg. 72P
  4. Word Building with –ck words---teacher’s guide pg. 72Q
  5. Building Background talking about working together---teacher’s guide pg. 72S
  6. Story Words---log, rope
  7. Words to Remember (help, now, play, too, want)---textbook pgs. 72-73
  8. Prereading Strategies (preview, predict, set purpose, sequence, make and confirm predictions)---teacher’s guide pg. 73A
  9. Discuss story genre fantasy—textbook pg. 74
  10. Class will read and discuss the story, “Jack and Rick” textbook pgs. 74-87 with guided comprehension questions given on teacher’s guide same pages

Wednesday Harcourt Reading, Language, Writing

Day 2 “Jack and Rick” activities continued

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

1. Story Words---log, rope

2. Words to Remember (help, now, play, too, want)---textbook pgs. 72-73

3. Discuss story genre fantasy—textbook pg. 74

Class will read and discuss the story, “Jack and Rick” textbook pgs. 74-87 with Think and Respond comprehension questions given on textbook and teacher’s guide pg. 88

4. Meet the Author—David McPhail—textbook pg. 89

5. Retelling using sequence---teacher’s guide pg. 89A

6. Daily Language Practice (sentence correcting capitalization, ending punctuation)---teacher’s guide pg. 89B

  1. Grammar: Telling Sentences Review---teacher’s guide pg. 89C
  1. Interactive and Journal Writing---First class will take a look at story response describing characters on teacher’s guide pg. 89B and f students will write about themselves. If they need help thinking or ideas, have them look in a mirror or think about their favorite activities.

Thursday Harcourt Reading, Language, Writing

Day 3 activities “Jack and Rick”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with poem, “Water” (discuss shallow)---teacher’s guide pg. 89E
  2. Phoneme Blending---teacher’s guide pg. 89E
  3. Distinguish Final Phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 89E
  4. Word Building with –ck---teacher’s guide pg. 89F

5. Story Words---log, rope

6. Words to Remember (help, now, play, too, want) and High Frequency Words teacher’s guide pg. 89I---textbook pgs. 72-73

7. Discuss story genre fantasy—textbook pg. 74

  1. Class will read and discuss the story, “Jack and Rick” textbook pgs. 74-87
  2. Reading Across Texts social studies article “Bridges Then and Now”---textbook pg. 90-91
  3. Daily Language Practice (sentence correction spelling and ending punctuation)---teacher’s guide pg. 93A
  4. Grammar: Telling Sentences Review---teacher’s guide pg. 93B

Friday Harcourt Reading, Language, Writing

Day 4 “Jack and Rick” activities

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

  1. Sharing Literature with poem, “Together”---teacher’s guide pg. 93D
  2. Phoneme Blending---teacher’s guide pg. 93D
  3. Blending Words---teacher’s guide pg. 93D
  4. Word Building short a and short I words---teacher’s guide pg. 93E

5. Story Words---log, rope

6. Words to Remember (help, now, play, too, want) and High Frequency Words teacher’s guide pg. 93H---textbook pgs. 72-73

7. Discuss story genre fantasy—textbook pg. 74

  1. Class will read and discuss the story, “Jack and Rick” textbook pgs. 74-87
  2. Reading Comprehension Sequence---teacher’s guide pg. 93I and textbook pg. 94-95
  3. Daily Language Practice---(sentence correction capitalization and ending punctuation)---teacher’s guide pg. 95A
  4. Grammar: Telling Sentences Review teacher’s guide pg. 95B
  5. Writing: Write invitations teacher’s guide pg. 95A and writing: have children write about and draw a picture of a party or event they would like to invite their friends to attend