Harcourt Reading/Language Arts/Writing/Read Aloud

April 7-11, 2014 (12:45-1:30)

Common Core Content: RL.1.3, RL.1.9, RI.1.7, RF.1.2b, RF.1.3e, SL.1.2

Monday-Day 2 “Tomas Rivera”

  1. Sharing Literature with poem, “How to Eat a Poem” discuss figurative language---teacher’s guide pg. 62P
  2. Phoneme Segmentation---teacher’s guide pg. 62P
  3. Identify Initial Digraphs (qu, wh)---teacher’s guide pg. 62P
  4. WordBuilding (qu, wh)---teacher’s guide pg. 62Q
  5. Building Background—talk about families---teacher’s guide pg. 62S
  6. Read and Discuss story words (Grandpa, library, name, stories, teacher, Texas, Tomas Rivera)---teacher’s guide pg. 62S
  7. Read and discuss words to remember (about, books, by, family, grew, read, work, writing)---textbook pgs. 62-63
  8. Pre-reading (preview, predict, set purpose, discuss character and sequencing/summarizing)---teacher’s guide pg. 63A
  9. Discuss story genre: biography textbook pg. 64
  10. Students will read and discuss the story, “Tomas Rivera” textbook pgs.64-80 and teacher will ask guided comprehension questions pertaining to story---questions provided in teacher’s guide pgs. 66-80
  11. What does Tomas do?
  12. Why do Tomas and his family go from farm to farm picking crops?
  13. How do you know that Tomas is a hard worker?
  14. Why does Grandpa call the children together?
  15. How do you think Tomas feels about Grandpa?
  16. What kinds of things did Tomas read about?
  17. What do you think Tomas will tell stories about?
  18. How did reading lots of books help Tomas think of his own stories?
  19. What job does Tomas have when he is a grown-up?
  20. Why do you think the author wrote about Tomas Rivera?
  21. Why do you think people remember Tomas Rivera?
  22. Why do you think Tomas Rivera’s name is on a library?
  23. Decodable Book 15 story 2: “The Whiz” read and accelerated reader test
  24. Writing---“Fun With Paint” begin writing the story about the kittens’ day with the paint

Tuesday-Day 2 “Tomas Rivera” continued

  1. Read and Discuss story words (Grandpa, library, name, stories, teacher, Texas, Tomas Rivera)---teacher’s guide pg. 62S
  2. Read and discuss words to remember (about, books, by, family, grew, read, work, writing)---textbook pgs. 62-63
  3. Discuss story genre: biography textbook pg. 64
  4. Students will read and discuss the story, “Tomas Rivera” textbook pgs.64-80
  5. Think and Respond questions textbook pg. 81

*What did Grandpa do at night for the children?

*Why did Tomas want to tell his own stories?

*How did Tomas learn to tell stories?

*Why do you think Tomas Rivera wrote stories about people picking crops?

*What kinds of books do you look for in the library?

  1. Discuss Social Studies: Tomas Rivera---teacher’s guide pg. 80-81
  2. Discuss Meet the Author and Illustrator---teacher’s guide and textbook pgs. 82-83
  3. Retelling---discuss character and retelling and summarizing the story---teacher’s guide pg. 83A
  4. Daily Language Practice (spelling, Mr. capitalization)---teacher’s guide pg. 83B
  5. Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg. 83C
  6. Decodable Book 15 story 4: “Cluck! Quack! Wham! Whack!” read and accelerated reader testing
  7. Writing---“Fun With Paint” finish notebook paper story about the kittens and the paint

Wednesday- Lexia Lab (12:45-1:30)

Students will be taken into computer lab and signed into Lexia Reading Core5 computer program. The computer program is an individualized reading curriculum to help students practice and learn foundational reading skills by interacting with the online program, receiving teacher-led Lexia Lessons, and continuing with independent, paper-based practice activities using Lexia Skill Builders. The data will then be captured and reported to the teacher for planning instruction and helping students reach grade-level benchmarks.

Thursday- Day 3 “Tomas Rivera”

  1. Sharing Literature with poem, “Story Time” (discuss fantasy)---teacher’s guide pg. 83E
  2. Phoneme Isolation (beginning sounds)---teacher’s guide pg. 83E
  3. Phoneme Substitution (qu, wh)---teacher’s guide pg. 83E
  4. WordBuilding (qu, wh)---teacher’s guide pg. 83F
  5. Read and Discuss story words (Grandpa, library, name, stories, teacher, Texas, Tomas Rivera)---teacher’s guide pg. 62S
  6. Read and discuss words to remember (about, books, by, family, grew, read, work, writing)---textbook pgs. 62-63
  7. Discuss story genre: biography textbook pg. 64
  8. Students will read and discuss the story, “Tomas Rivera” textbook pgs.64-80
  9. Daily Language Practice (spelling, ending punctuation)---teacher’s guide pg. 85A
  10. Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg. 85B
  11. Decodable Book 16 story 1: “Dr. Kern” read and accelerated reader testing
  12. Writing---“Tree FortFun” teacher introduce prompt and thinking: The squirrels are spending the day in their new tree fort! What will they do?

Friday-Day 4 “Tomas Rivera”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with “Grandma’s Lap”---discuss meanings for rock---teacher’s guide pg. 85D
  2. Phoneme Substitution (changing beginning)---teacher’s guide pg. 85D
  3. Phoneme Blending---teacher’s guide pg. 85D
  4. WordBuilding (th, qu, wh words)---teacher’s guide pg. 85E
  5. Read and Discuss story words (Grandpa, library, name, stories, teacher, Texas, Tomas Rivera)---teacher’s guide pg. 62S
  6. Read and discuss words to remember (about, books, by, family, grew, read, work, writing)---textbook pgs. 62-63
  7. Discuss story genre: biography textbook pg. 64
  8. Students will read and discuss the story, “Tomas Rivera” textbook pgs.64-80
  9. Reading Comprehension: Discuss characters---teacher’s guide pg. 85I and textbook pgs. 86-87
  10. Daily Language Practice (name capitalization, ending punctuation)---teacher’s guide pg. 87A
  11. Grammar: Review Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg. 87B
  12. Writing---“Tree FortFun” write plan—narrative writing

12. Read and Discuss Decodable Book 18 stories---accelerated reader testing on these stories