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Houghton
Mifflin "Treasure" Invitations to Literacy"
A Chair For My Mother
Vera Williams
Day one
Setting purpose for
reading:
What are the plans
for the chair? How will everyone use the chair once they own it?
Read story
Day two
Setting purpose for
reading:
How are the ways that
the little girl earns money for the jar?
Read story
Day three
Setting purpose for
reading
Class discussion before
reading: Has anyone in your family saved for a special item? Have you
saved up to buy something?
MATH extension
Bring in a jar filled
with coins. Depending on your grade level, you could sort by coins, then
add them up. You could give everyone a handful of coins, then add the
totals together.
Another idea * start
a jar in your classroom. Once it is full, donate the amount to a good
cause, or pay for a field trip, or buy books for the classroom library....
My Trip to Shay Lake
By Stephanie Davis
Read this story as
connected to writing workshop. Point out all the good components. See
if the children can write including the beginning, middle, and end.
Now One Foot, Now
the Other
Tomie dePaola
Day one:
Set purpose for reading:
How are all the ways
that Grandpa Bob helps Bobby?
Read from the beginning
of the story until just before Bobby*s fifth birthday.
Day two:
Set purpose for reading:
How are all the ways
that Bobby helps Grandpa Bob?
Read the rest of the
story.
Too Many Tamales
Gary Soto
Ed Matinez
Set purpose for reading:
What are the ways
that Maria acts grown up?
What are the ways
that show that Maria is still a kid?
Read up to the page
where Maria screams, "The Ring!"
Set purpose for reading:
Maria has a big problem.
What are the different ways she tries to fix her problem?
Read the rest of the
story.
What Happened to Patrick*s
Dinosaurs
Carol Carrick and
Donald Carrick
Set Purpose for Reading
What did the dinosaurs
do to help people? Why did they leave?
An Octopus is Amazing
Patricia Lauber
Before reading start
a KWL. Divide the story into thirds. Add to the KWL each day. After reading
the story, I would have the kids make an octopus and record their favorite/most
interesting octopus facts on the arms.
Two of Everything
Lily Toy Hong
Math Extension
After reading the
story, have the students make a class book. Each child contributes one
page
I put _____ (number)
_________ item in the pot, and _______ (doubled number) ________ items
came out.
Day one:
Set purpose for reading:
How does doubling
help the Haktaks?
Day two:
Set purpose for reading:
How does doubling
harm the Haktaks?
A Mother*s Love by
Ramon, Andrea, and Isreal Mosqueda
Set purpose for reading:
How does the mother
see her cub? How does the coyote see the cub?
The Legend of the
Indian Paintbrush
Tomie dePaola
Set purpose for reading:
Little Gopher has
a gift for his people. What is the gift? How does he help his people?
Houghton Mifflin
Friends
Invitations to Literacy
Arthur*s Pet Business
Set Purpose for Reading:
What are all the ways
that the pictures and words show Arthur taking care of the dogs?
Julius By Angela Johnson
and Dav Pilkey
Day one:
Set purpose for reading:
Julius causes all
kinds of problems. Make a list of them.
Day two:
Set purpose for reading:
Julius helps Mara.
What are the things that they do together?
What Lives in a Shell?
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Set purpose for reading:
What kinds of homes
are there and who lives in them? How do their homes make them safe?
I would organize a
graphic organizer with these headings:
Watch Out, Ronald
Morgan!
Patricia Reilly Giff
Day one
Set Purpose for reading:
What are the ways
that Ronald*s life is a mess?
Day two
Set Purpose for reading;
If Ronald was in our
classroom, what would the kids do different to help him, instead of teasing
him?
What kind of Baby-sitter
is This?
Dolores Johnson
Set purpose for reading:
Kevin hates baby-sitters.
But he doesn*t hate Aunt Lovely. What are the things that Aunt Lovely
does to entertain Kevin?
Ruby the Copy Cat
By Peggy Rathmann
Day one
Set purpose for reading:
What are all the ways
that Ruby copies Angela?
Day two
Set purpose for reading:
What are the ways
that her teacher helps Ruby to feel better?
Tacky the Penguin
Day one * Read aloud
Tacky the Penguin for enjoyment during SSR time. I like to read the books
to the kids before they read for other reasons when we aren*t going to
read the whole book in one sitting. Sometimes I don*t, but usually I try
to read the book the day before I use it. There isn*t a right or wrong.
Also it isn*t a hard, fast rule.
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Day two * today only
read to PAGE 13 (before the hunters come)
Set purpose for reading
as finding the ways that Tacky acts tacky compared to the companions.
some possibilities:
Tacky
His name is "Tacky".
Hearty slap on the
back and loud "What*s happening?"
Marched all over the
place 1-2-3 4-2 3-6-0 etc.
Splashy cannonballs.
Sings songs like "How
many toes does a fish have?"
Companions
Their names are Lovely
Goodly Angel Perfect and Neatly.
Greeted each other
quietly and politely.
Marched 1-2-3-4.
Graceful dives.
Sing songs like "Sunrise
on the Iceberg"
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Day three * to finish
the book set the purpose for reading as listing all the ways that Tacky
saves the day. How did Tacky being different help the other penguins?
I give the kids sticky
notes to put into the book to mark their places. Another option is to
give them a book mark with a penguin clip art at the top and have them
write their findings on the bookmark.
Reading Response follow
up -----
I have the kids write
about a time they were different from their friends and how that was good
or bad and why. Reread the last page "Tacky was an odd bird, but
very nice to have around." Can the students think of a time they
were the odd bird or someone else was, and still nice to have around????
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Day four and five
--- the kids read Tacky the Penguin Reader*s Theatre.
The Day Jimmy*s Boa
Ate the Wash
Before reading
Discuss Cause and
Effect
Set Purpose for reading:
Figure out why things
happen
After reading
Put the events on
sentence strips and have the children work together to put them in order.
Snake Stuff
Start a KWL about
snakes
Read and add to the
chart.
SNAKES
All About Rattlesnakes
by Jim Arnosky 0-590-46795-6
Great Snakes!
By Fay Robinson 0-590-26243-2
My Little Book
of Snakes by Gina Ingoglia 0-307-02475-X
Snakes By Patricia
Demuth 0-448-40513-X
Snakes By Golden
Books 0-307-20402-2
Verdi By Janell
Cannon 0-590-11749-1
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SSR day one
* Read aloud
Verdi by Janell Cannon. I bought the tape with the story on it
from Scholastic. It is definitely worth the money.
* Show the
kids all the snake books. I remind the kids that they are allowed to
read these books during the SSR time.
The other days during
SSR the kids pick books from book baskets and the teacher can read aloud
snake books if she desires.
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Guided Reading day
one
* I put the
books on different tables. I divide the kids into as many different
book titles that I have available. Each child gets to picture walk,
read a bit, and look at the books. Then I have the kids write down a
first choice and a second choice and a third of the book they want to
read. See book clubs pages 58-61 for better directions.
* We predict
what we will learn about (see teacher*s guide to 4 blocks page 67) I
try to get the kids to generate some of the following questions:
Where
do snakes live?
What
do snakes eat?
What
are the names of snakes?
What
are the special characteristics of snakes?
How
do snakes move?
When
do snakes.... eat, breed, die,...?
Why
are snakes important to our environment?
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Guided Reading day
2
* I assign
book club books reminding the kids that the other books will be available
for their use during SSR time.
* For 20 minutes,
the kids read the first section together. I look at the books and decide
where each break should be. Then the kids work together to add to the
graphic organizer. I have each group work on a group graphic organizer.
Guided Reading day
3 and 4
I repeat day 2.
Focused Writing----
When we are done learning about snakes the children will be using "Safe
Topic" Sentences to Write about Snakes.
Students will be pick
one topic sentence from the following list:
Let me tell you about
______
Have you ever wondered
about ______
Have you ever wondered
why ______
I think was for many
reasons.
I just learned facts
about ______
Let me tell you how
and are alike.
Let me tell you how
and are different.
Many changes happen
to as they grow.
People used to think
, but now we know...
Partner one tells
everything he knows about what was read. Switch. Partner two tells everything
she knows about what was read. Pick a Safe Topic sentence. Write details
from the snake books that was read.
Bringing Up The Rain
to Kapiti Plain
By Verna Aardema
Clean Your Room, Harvey
Moon!
By Pat Cummings
I would use these
stories for rounding up the rhymes in words block
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