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Houghton Mifflin Reading

Second Grade

Delights

Talent Show — Theme 6 

                    Moses Goes to a Concert by Isaac Millman   FIRST READING 

Before reading — Teacher should lead a discussion about sign language.  

RIVET is a good strategy for introducing vocabulary words. See pages 328-329 for the selection about sign language including these vocabulary words:

  • deaf
  • hearing
  • vibrations
  • instruments
  • sign
 

Comprehension Strategy Focus — A boy who is deaf goes to a concert with his classmates. As you read, stop to summarize the important facts in the story. 

In the book, Guided Reading the Four Blocks Way, summarizing and concluding are described like this: "As you read, your brain synthesizes information from the words to comprehend the sentences, information from the sentences to comprehend the paragraphs, information from paragraphs to synthesize sections, and so on, as you move through the text. You make inferences. The text may not specifically say something, but you draw conclusions based on what you know so far. The text told you some things about the story, you drew conclusions that pulled together information you had read and what you know from your own life experiences. As you read, you constantly accumulate information, and you keep this information in mind by subsuming smaller facts into larger generalizations. You summarize, conclude, infer, and generalize, and then you read some more, incorporate the new information, and draw even bigger conclusions (pages 44-45)." 
 

During reading — Use the "say something" technique as the children are reading with a partner. 

After reading — Discuss what the story was about. Go through the book page by page and summarize the page.

 

Houghton Mifflin Reading

Second Grade

Delights

Talent Show — Theme 6 

                Moses Goes to a Concert by Isaac Millman SECOND READING 

Set purpose for reading — What does Moses mean when he says, "When you set your mind to it, you can become anything you want..."? 

During reading — Read with a partner to justify your answer. 

After reading — discussion of set purpose