Fifth Lesson

Day 5 Objectives:

Good readers will be able to complete a word sort

Good readers will be able to answer questions geared towards one story

I can complete a close read

 Procedures:

Greet student. Ask her to complete the word sort without any help. She will read every word and put them in the right column. Once finished, read over the words together to make sure they are all right.

Pull out Mortimer by Robert Munsch. Ask her to read it for the second time. At the end of the book ask different questions than we asked during the first read.

1.       When is Mortimer making noise?

2.       Why do you think Mortimer is making so much noise?

3.       Who is mad at Mortimer?

4.       Why is everyone mad at Mortimer?

Have her read the book for the third time. At the end of the book ask deeper thinking questions.

1.       What do you think Mortimer is trying to do by singing so loud?

2.       Do you think his song has any meaning?

3.       Why do you think he ended up falling asleep in the end?

Cindy did well for her last lesson. We read Mortimer again and she remembered the book from the last lesson. She did not struggle with the words this time and read the book straight through. She answered the questions I had prepared with no problem. I did not ask her the questions until she had finished reading the book so she was reading without looking for the answers. The third time through she really did not want to read the book again. I suggested that we make it fun and do something different for this read. In the book, Mortimer sings a song to get attention from his family members. For the third reading, we clapped and stomped our feet to the song. She thought that was fun. I had her write her answers down for the third set of questions. She resisted a little but I got her to finish them.

This lesson was a little harder because Cindy really was getting tired of reading the same book over and over. In the end I think I did a lot better of putting my foot down and having her finish her all that I had asked of her. I think I did a great job of redirecting and making reading the book for the third time fun. The song that Mortimer sings is repeated several times in the book so Cindy could clap and stomp often which made her read the book a little faster without as many breaks.