1 Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply About Books : Reading Clinic Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades PreK–4 Professional Commentary: This resource describes two activities for using prediction to help students comprehend texts more fully. The activities, designed for primary and intermediate classrooms, encourage students to use evidence from the text to support their predictions.... 2 Readers Theatre With Jan Brett Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grade 1 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Reader's Theatre experience that is performed for other groups of students. Students make predictions about the story prior to reading, listen to the story being read aloud, and then make observations about the characters, setting, and plot.... 3 Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students become familiar with the pattern book format using I Went Walking by Sue Williams. Next, they collaborate to create their own digital pattern book.... 4 The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students examine their prior knowledge, make predictions, and verify their predictions through research on the Internet. This lesson uses the topic of frogs to teach students strategies for reading electronic informational texts.... 5 Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Science, Reading Grades: Grade 1 Professional Commentary: This lesson presents a framework for using a variety of reading comprehension strategies in a scaffolded manner. Using the book Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, students learn about worms by reading and examining the book in layers.... 6 Comparing Tales through Performance Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grade 2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students identify the similarities and differences between a traditional and contemporary version of The Three Little Pigs. Students demonstrate comprehension by acting out scenes from each of the stories.... 7 Integrating Language Arts Using If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine key reading skills with prediction and sequencing practice. Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues.... 8 Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson encourages students to participate in read-alouds about bears. The teacher reads and uses the questions provided for the fiction book Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky.... 9 Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use images and texts to explore the familiar character, Curious George. After reading and discussing the book, students create a web with insights about George's character.... 10 Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: After exploring the organizing structure and writer’s craft of picture books, students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories. “Reading like writers,” students explore the ways that stories are structured; then, “writing like writers,” students apply organizational structures to their own writing.... |