Fourth Lesson

Day 4 Objectives:

Good readers can read the words on a word sort.

Good readers can complete two family word sorts

Good readers can read a story and answer questions to check comprehension

Day 3 Procedures:

Greet student and ask her how her weekend was. Have the students read the words for the family word sorts. Let her put the words in the correct family. Once she is finished, go over the words with her to make sure she put them in the right spot. Once finished with that word sort let her start the other family sort. Let her read each word and put them in the category she thinks they belong in.

Have her choose a story from the Classic Storybook collection to read for her close read on Thursday. Tell the student that we are going to work on comprehension. Ask her if she knows what comprehension is. Comprehension means that she is understanding what is happening in the story.

While she is reading have her stop every two pages to talk about what is happening in the story. When finished ask

1.      who some of the characters were

2.      where the story took place

3.      what were some events

4.      what was the problem in the story

Walk back through the book together to get a summary of the book. Have her write the answers in the notebook to help put them in her long term memory. After she has written the answers, have her write three sentences about the book (likes or dislikes and one event).

Cindy did a great job as always with her word sorts. She completed her word sorts on word families today and did a fantastic job reading the words and putting them in the correct spot. Today we read Mortimer by Robert Munsch. We stopped throughout the story to check for comprehension and to talk about the pictures. Cindy would often stop to say, "I predict that Mortimer will get in trouble again!" We talked about who was mad at Mortimer and why. We talked about where the setting was and why we think Munsch used the colors that he did for the pictures. Cindy always had a great response and really enjoyed reading the new book.

I let her read all by herself today. The words she did not know I gave her time to sound them out instead of helping her figure them out. I think I have gotten much better at asking the right questions and waiting for her response instead of giving her the answer and moving on. I still need to work on making sure she is comprehending the text. I also need to work on having her write some of the answers. She does not always like to write but sometimes she asks for a pencil and paper to "help her think about the answers."