Harcourt Reading, Language, Writing

Apr. 20-24

12:30-1:20, Special Class is from 1:20-2:10, continue lesson 2:10-3:00

Monday Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing— Day 4 “A Bed Full of Cats”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with poem, “I Would Like to Have a Pet” and pantomine---teacher’s guide pg. 33D
  2. Phoneme Matching 2 activities middle vowel sounds---teacher’s guide pg. 33D
  3. Word Building long e and long o words---teacher’s guide pg. 33E
  4. Story Words (eyes, hear, moves, newspaper, tears (noun), tries, wiggled
  5. Words to Remember (also, anything, know, moved, only, room, should, those, write)---textbook pgs. 8-9
  6. High Frequency Words and vocabulary words---teacher’s guide pg. 33H
  7. Discuss story genre: realistic fiction
  8. Reread and discuss the story, “A Bed Full of Cats” textbook pgs. 10-22.
  9. Decodable Book reading and accelerated reading testing

Tuesday Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing---Day 4 continued “A Bed Full of Cats”

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

1. Word Building long e and long o words---teacher’s guide pg. 33E

  1. Story Words (eyes, hear, moves, newspaper, tears (noun), tries, wiggled
  2. Words to Remember (also, anything, know, moved, only, room, should, those, write)---textbook pgs. 8-9
  3. Discuss story genre: realistic fiction
  4. Reread and discuss the story, “A Bed Full of Cats” textbook pgs. 10-22.
  5. Alphabetize---teacher’s guide pg.33I and textbook pgs. 34-35
  6. Daily Language Practice (lowercase letter and ending punctuation)---teacher’s guide pg. 35A
  7. Grammar: Names of Holidays Review—teacher’s guide pg. 35B
  8. Shared Writing: Extend the story---teacher’s guide pg. 35A
  9. Share a Rhyme “Three Little Kittens” big book of rhymes pgs. 36-37
  10. Decodable Book reading and accelerated reader testing

Wednesday Harcourt Reading, Language, Writing---Day 5 “A Bed Full of Cats”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with Hattie and the Fox book reading with expression---teacher’s guide pg. 35D
  2. Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 35D
  3. Contractions with matching phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 35D
  4. Contractions ‘s, n’t, ‘ll---teacher’s guide pg. 35D
  5. Story Words (eyes, hear, moves, newspaper, tears (noun), tries, wiggled
  6. Words to Remember (also, anything, know, moved, only, room, should, those, write)---textbook pgs. 8-9
  7. Discuss story genre: realistic fiction
  8. Reread and discuss the story, “A Bed Full of Cats” textbook pgs. 10-22.
  9. Daily Language Practice (spelling)---teacher’s guide pg. 35K
  10. Grammar: Names of Holidays---teacher’s guide pg. 35L
  11. Writing Cat Story---teacher’s guide pg. 35K

Thursday Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing---Day 1 “Me on the Map”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with big book On a Hot, Hot Day---teacher’s guide pg. 36H
  2. Rhyming Words---teacher’s guide pg. 36H
  3. Identify Initial long a phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 36H
  4. Word Building long a words---teacher’s guide pg. 36J
  5. Daily Language Practice (spelling and ending punctuation)---teacher’s guide pg. 36M
  6. Grammar: Using I or me---teacher’s guide pg. 36N
  7. Shared Writing Theme Word Chart---teacher’s guide pg. 36M
  8. Decodable book reading and accelerated reader testing

Friday Harcourt Reading, Language, and Writing---Day 2 “Me on the Map”

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

  1. Sharing Literature with poem, “Legs” teacher’s guide pg. 36P
  2. Phoneme Isolation ending sounds---teacher’s guide pg. 36P
  3. Identify Medial Phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 36P
  4. Word Building long a---teacher’s guide pg. 36Q
  5. Building Background talk about maps---teacher’s guide pg. 36S
  6. Discuss story words: countries, United States of America, everybody, giant, unroll
  7. Words to Remember: country, Earth, over, special, town, world textbook pgs. 36-37
  8. Prereading strategies---teacher’s guide pg 37A
  9. Discuss story genre: nonfiction
  10. Class will read and discuss the story, “Me on the Map” using teacher’s guided comprehension questions—teacher’s guide and textbook pgs. 38-58
  11. Decodable Book reading and accelerated reader testing