Third Lesson

Day 3 Objectives:

Good readers can read the words on a word sort

Good readers can complete a word sort on ending -ub,-ug, -ut sounds

Good readers can complete a running record on a familiar book with few mistakes.

Good readers can recall events from a book.

Good readers can write a response to the book.  

 

Day 3 Procedures:

Greet students and ask how her day is going. Ask her what she did yesterday and what she plans on doing after our session together. Tell the student that we are going to work on another word sort with a focus on the ending sounds. The student struggled with ending sounds on the last running record so I would like to place the emphasis on ending sounds for this word sort.

I will model two of the words on the word sort with an emphasis on the ending sounds. Ask if she can hear a difference in sounds between the two words. Ask the student to read the rest of the words on the word sort out loud. Place the three categories on the top of the desk. Model each of the ending sounds. Tell the student that her task to is to put the words under the right category by herself.

Handing one word at a time to the student I will have her read each word to you and place it in a category. When she is finished, read the words in each category together and she if she will correct her mistakes (if she has made any). I really want the student to be able to place the words in the categories by herself to prove to herself that she can read the words and place them in the right categories. (5-10 minutes)

Next I will ask my student to read Are You My Mother to me while I complete a running record with the text. We have read this book each time so I believe this will go very well because she is familiar with the storyline and text. Let her do her best without giving her any hints. (10 minutes).

Once completed with the running record, I will have my student listen to me read a new book. I will ask if she knows what an “event” is in a book. In the Are You My Mother book model an event. The bird went to visit a snort and the bird visited a cat. Those are events in a story because it is something that happened in the book. I would like the student to give me at least three events from the book to make sure she can remember what happened in the book and that she is actually comprehending what I am reading to her to the point where she can respond to the text. (5 minutes)

Read the new book and have her look at the pictures to help build a mental image of the events in the story. Once finished, ask the student to write three sentences about the book. The sentences could include her favorite part or what she liked or did not like about the book. Remind her to use her best penmanship and to use capital letters and punctuation (15 minutes).


Cindy did even better with the second running record because she was familiar with the text. We had read Are You My Mother the last two times we had met. She only made on self correction and added words in three different spots. She scored 156/159. She read straight through the text without asking any questions. She did what was asked of her without questioning me. She completed her word sort quickly and perfectly. She did not make any mistakes.

I learned that I need to let her read to me more. She is capable of reading new material and enjoys the challenge. I also learned that I did a great job of stopping during the story to check for her comprehension. She is such a fast learner that I need to keep up with her. I had more planned for this lesson which helped because we did not have any spare time at the end.