Mole and the Baby Bird

Day 4

Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011

QUESTION OF THE WEEK Tell children they will talk, sing, read, and writeabout Clever Solutions. Write and read the message and discuss thequestion.
CONNECT CONCEPTS Ask questions to connect to other Unit 5 selections.
  • How did the family in “It Could Always Be Worse” learn to see things
    differently?
  • Little Chick saw a new way to trick the dog. How did she do it?
REVIEW HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDSCircle the high-frequency words eyes and never in the message. Have children say and spell each word as they write it in the air.
Phonics
Lesson Essential Question: How do I identify, use, and segmentwords?
Connect Write now and down. You studied words like these already.
What do you know about reading these words? (The words bothhave ow. The letters ow stand for one sound, /ou/.) Today we willlearn about another pair of letters that can stand for /ou/.
Use Sound-Spelling Card Display Card 27. This isowl. The sound you hear at the beginning of owl is /ou/.Say it with me: /ou/.
Model Write loud. The letters ou stand for /ou/. This ishow I blend this word. Segment and blend loud. Let's blend this word together: /l/ /ou/ /d/, loud.
Group Practice Say each sound and blend theword together. Continue with out, ouch, sound,proud, slouch.
Review What do you know about reading thesewords? When you see the letters ou, they may stand for /ou/.
Fluency:
MODEL READING AT AN APPROPRIATE RATE WITH ACCURACY AND EXPRESSION
READ DECODABLE READER 51
  • Pages 18–19 Read aloud quietly with the group.
  • Page 20 Have the group read aloud without you.
  • Pages 21–24 Select individuals to read aloud.
CHECK COMPREHENSION AND DECODING
  • What happened after Rob fell down and cried? (He tried again.)
  • Why is Rob smiling at the end of the story? (He is able to ride his bike now.)
  • Point to a word in the story in which the letters ou stand for /ou/. What is
    the word? List words children name. Children may supply found, mouth, ouch,
    outside, and shouted.
  • Have the list read.

Vocabulary:
Fond-If you are fond of something you like it a lot.
Proper-Proper means “correct”
Scarcely-Scarcely means hardly.
Comprehension
Read Dr. Know it All Pgs. 68-69
PREVIEW AND PREDICT Have children preview the selection and describe ways that its features are different from those of a story. Explain that the selection includes letters that people wrote to each other. Read aloud the greetings and closings and have children predict what the letters will be about.
LETTERS AND NOTES Review with children that a letter begins with a greetingsuch as Dear (name), and usually ends with a closing such as Sincerely, (name) or Yours truly, (name). Explain that many magazines and newspapers publish letters in advice columns. The columns include letters from readers who want help with problems and letters answering the readers with advice.
VOCABULARY/DESCRIPTIVE WORDS Remind children that we use special wordsto describe feelings. Have children find the word on p. 68 that describes a feeling (mad). After children read the selection, ask them to think of a word to describe how "Getting Mad" felt after trying Dr. Know-It-All's advice.
Spelling:PARTNER REVIEW Diphthong ou/ou/
READ AND WRITE Supply pairs of children with index cards on which the spelling words have been written. Have one child read a word while the other writes it.Then have children switch roles. Have them use the cards to check their spelling.
Grammar
DEFINE EXCLAMATIONS
  • What kind of sentence is used to show very strong emotion? (exclamation) How do exclamations always begin? How do they end? (capital letter; exclamation mark)
PRACTICE
WRITE EXCLAMATIONS Write happy, sad, scared, and excited in a list on the board.
Have individuals suggest exclamations for each emotion.
happy / What a great day!
sad / This is terrible!
scared / We need to leave!
excited / I can't wait until tomorrow!
Differentiated Small Group Instruction
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Process Writing(30-45) Time: