Day 1: Initial reading of story
- Build vocabulary background
- Vocabulary, especially proper nouns
- Interest
- Purpose (Predictions/questions are best if set by the children readers)
- SILENT reading of the story
- Return to purpose questions and have students prove answers from predictions/questions by reading to provide closure
Day 2: Reread (oral/silent) for a specific comprehension skill.
- Determine skill (sequencing, literacy feature, elements of a story…)
- Set purpose for rereading : includes a mini lesson where students can read orally (ie. story elements)
- Explain expectations : Reread to …
- Allow time for both rereading and assignment. (can be in pairs)
- This is probably an assignment you will collect and grade
- Favorite parts, readers theater and partner read
Day 3: A Skill
- Direct explicit instruction works well if a particular skill is being taught, but i must be based upon the story read to the previous days.
- Examples might include: phonics, quotation marks, tense, prepositional phrases, pronouns, genres, context clues…
- This can take two days with many lessons.
Day 4 or 5: Follow UP
- Based upon the story, the teacher creates a lesson to further extend the story.
- Excellent time to bring in science, theater, art, singing, physical eucation
- multiple intelligences
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