Tuesday, December 2, 2014

December 2nd-3rd, 2014
Reading: 
Objective:   SWBAT............
Comprehension:
  • Infer the cause of problems or outcomes in fiction texts.
  • Search for and use information to confirm or refute predictions.
  • Justify predictions using evidence.
  • Notice and use information in sidebars.
  • Recognize problem/solution.
  • Infer the larger idea of an informational text.
Fluency:
  • Read dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflect an understanding of a character's emotions.
Word Study 
  • Recognize and form present and past tense by adding the endings -s, -ed, and -ing.
  • Use multiple sources of information to decode words

Activity:
Close reading: Analyze and critique
Vocabulary - expect, expected, expectations
Word Study - ending -s -ed -ing
Introduce new text "Go Away Geese!"
Revisiting the Text Discussion

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

November 25th, 2014
Reading: 
Objective:   SWBAT............
Comprehension:
  • Infer the cause of problems or outcomes in fiction texts.
  • Search for and use information to confirm or refute predictions.
  • Justify predictions using evidence.
  • Notice and use information in sidebars.
  • Recognize problem/solution.
  • Infer the larger idea of an informational text.
Fluency:
  • Read dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflect an understanding of a character's emotions.
Word Study 
  • Recognize and form present and past tense by adding the endings -s, -ed, and -ing.
  • Use multiple sources of information to decode words

Activity:
Close reading: Analyze and critique
Vocabulary - expect, expected, expectations
Word Study - ending -s -ed -ing
Introduce new text "Go Away Geese!"
Revisiting the Text Discussion

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

November 19th, 2014
Reading: 
Objective:   SWBAT............
Comprehension:
    • Realize that illustrations carry a great deal of meaning
    • Infer Characters' feelings and 
    • motivations through reading 
    • their dialogue
    • Notice a surprise ending.

    Fluency:

    • Reading dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflect an understanding of the characters and events.


    Activity:
    Close reading: Analyze
    Writing about Reading...... Describe characters' feelings and motivations, inferring them from the text
    Introduce new text "The Neighbor's Dog"
    Revisiting the Text Discussion

    Monday, November 3, 2014

    November 3rd, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension:

    • Summarize part of a text.
    • Identify the problem in the story and make predictions about the solution.
    • Infer traits of the subject of a biography.
    • Use evidence to support thinking.
    • Follow and remember a series of events

    Fluency:
    1. Read with phrasing, intonation, and attention to punctuation
    Word Study 
    1. Use word parts to understand word meaning.
    2. Read words with long vowel sounds
    3. Use multiple sources of information to decode words
    Activity:
    Close reading: Summarize and Synthesize
    Word Work
    Introduce new text "Remya Jose's Great Idea"
    Revisiting the Text Discussion

    Tuesday, October 21, 2014

    October 21th, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension:

    • Notice use of comparison.
    • Identify the problem in the story and make predictions about the solution.
    • Infer character traits.
    • Justify predictions with evidence.

    Fluency:
    1. Demonstrate appropriate stress on words.
    2. Read silently and orally at an appropriate rate
    Word Study 
    1. search for and use patterns to take words apart..
    Activity:
    Write about Reading
    Word Work
    Introduce new text "Saturday Plans"

    Friday, October 17, 2014

    October 17th, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension:

    Notice use of comparison.
    Identify the problem in the story and make predictions about the solution.
    Infer character traits.
    Justify predictions with evidence.

    Fluency:
    1. Demonstrate appropriate stress on words.
    2. Read silently and orally at an appropriate rate
    Word Study 
    1. search for and use patterns to take words apart.
    Activity:
    Write about Reading
    Word Work
    Introduce new text "Saturday Plans"

    Thursday, October 16, 2014

    October 16th, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension:

    Infer the cause of the problem
    Provide evidence to support thinking
    Use section headings to foreshadow content

    Fluency:
    1. Read dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflect an understanding of characters and events
    Word Study 
    1. Use word parts to derive the meaning of new words
    2. Recognize and use words with the -ing -s endings
    Activity:
    Readers Theater
    Word Work
    Introduce new text "The Aye-aye"

    Tuesday, October 7, 2014

    October 8th, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension
    1. Notice aspects of a writer's craft in a memoir and a mystery.
    2. Notice and interpret clues in a mystery.
    3. Infer a writer's message from the text.
    Fluency:
    1. Read with phrasing to interpret a writer's meaning.
    2. Notice and use punctuation to guide reading.
    Word Study
    1. Notice the features of high frequency words. 
    2. Use context and word parts to derive the meaning of new words
    3. Read High Frequency words quickly and easily
    Activity:
    Analyze the text through close reading

    Introduce new text "The House at the Edge of the Woods!"

    Thursday, October 2, 2014

    October 7th, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension

    1. Notice aspects of a writer's craft in a memoir and a mystery.
    2. Notice and interpret clues in a mystery.
    3. Infer a writer's message from the text.

    Fluency:

    1. Read with phrasing to interpret a writer's meaning.
    2. Notice and use punctuation to guide reading.


    Word Study
    1. Notice the features of high frequency words. 
    2. Use context and word parts to derive the meaning of new words
    3. Read High Frequency words quickly and easily
    Activity:
    Analyze the text through close reading

    Introduce new text "The House at the Edge of the Woods!"

    Monday, September 22, 2014

    September 22nd-23rd, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension
    1. Infer the massage and the important ideas from the text
    2. Use evidence to support thinking
    3. Predict what characters will do based on traits revealed by the writer.
    4. Think critically about a character.
    5. Show awareness of cause and effect
    6. Recognize a character's decisions and the consequences
    Fluency:
    1. Demonstrate awareness of the full range of punctuation.
    Word Study
    1. Recognize and use short vowel sounds in the middle of words that include a consonant cluster. 
    2. Notice unfamiliar words and use context and word parts to derive the meaning
    3. Decode words with two or three syllables
    Activity:
    Independent Writing: Two column Writing....Allie's needed to make some decisions to help solve some problems she faced in the story.  In the left column Identify the decision she made and in the right column describe how her decision solved the problem and whether you think it was the correct decision. 

    Introduce new text "Eggs for Gram!"

    Wednesday, September 17, 2014

    September 18th-19th, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............
    Comprehension
    1. Infer the massage and the important ideas from the text
    2. Use evidence to support thinking
    3. Predict what characters will do based on traits revealed by the writer.
    4. Think critically about a character.
    5. Show awareness of cause and effect
    6. Recognize a character's decisions and the consequences
    Fluency:
    1. Demonstrate awareness of the full range of punctuation.
    Word Study
    1. Recognize and use short vowel sounds in the middle of words that include a consonant cluster. 
    2. Notice unfamiliar words and use context and word parts to derive the meaning
    3. Decode words with two or three syllables
    Activity:
    Independent Writing: Two column Writing....Allie's needed to make some decisions to help solve some problems she faced in the story.  In the left column Identify the decision she made and in the right column describe how her decision solved the problem and whether you think it was the correct decision. 

    Introduce new text "Eggs for Gram!"

    Monday, September 15, 2014

    September 15th-18th, 2014
    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............


    Comprehension
    1. Notice how a writer communicates humor
    2. Infer a character's traits, feelings, and motivations.
    3. Predict what will happen, using background knowledge.
    4. Infer the big idea in a story.
    Fluency:
    1. Read the punctuation and sentence structure to interpret a writer's specific meaning.
    2. Read silently at an appropriate rate.
    Word StudyRecognize and use short vowel sounds in the middle of words that include a consonant cluster. Notice unfamiliar words and use context and word parts to derive the meaning

    Activity:
    Independent Writing: Write about why Emma's dad was important to the story.  Use the pages you marked to give examples from the story. 
    Introduce new text "Nothing But Trouble!"

    September 15th-18th, 2014
    Math:  
    Objective: SWBAT........ Identify the number of tens and ones that are used to compose a two digit number.

    Warm Up: Regrouping ten 1's and trading for one 10.
    Mini-Lesson: Regrouping chips
    Activity:  Regrouping using number cubes,  SWB Pg. 8-9
    Debrief: Discuss student's reflect prompt

    Wednesday, September 10, 2014

    September 10th, 2014

    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............

    Comprehension

    1. Notice the problem in a story and how the Character acts to solve it.
    2. Infer a character's feelings and motivations from what the character says and does.
    3. Understand the setting.
    4. Infer the big idea in a story
    Fluency:

    1. Notice and use phrases to read for meaning
    2. Demonstrate all aspects of phrased, fluent, expressive reading
    Word StudyRecognize and use short vowel sounds in the middle of words that include a consonant cluster. Notice unfamiliar words and use context and word parts to derive the meaning

    Activity:
    Write about "Thunderstorms"
    Introduce New Book......"Nothing But Trouble!"

    September 10th, 2014


    Math:  
    Wednesday is.......

    Differentiation Day:  Using MobyMax, Students will work on individual skills needing improvement as identified through placement testing. 

    Monday, September 8, 2014

    September 8th-9th, 2014

    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............


    Comprehension


    1. Notice the problem in a story and how the Character acts to solve it.
    2. Infer a character's feelings and motivations from what the character says and does.
    3. Understand the setting.
    4. Infer the big idea in a story
    Fluency:

    1. Notice and use phrases to read for meaning
    2. Demonstrate all aspects of phrased, fluent, expressive reading
    Word StudyRecognize and use short vowel sounds in the middle of words that include a consonant cluster. Notice unfamiliar words and use context and word parts to derive the meaning

    Activity:
    Reread "Thunderstorms"....Introduce new text "Nothing But Trouble!"

    Math:  
    Objective: SWBAT........ Identify combinations of three one digit numbers that make 10

    Warm Up: What Makes 10?
    Mini-Lesson: Skip Count by 10
    Activity:  3 different colors, Eggcellent,  SWB Pg. 4-5
    Debrief: Discuss student's reflect prompt

    Wednesday, August 27, 2014

    September 2, 2014

    September 3rd-5th, 2014

    Reading: 
    Objective:   SWBAT............


    Comprehension


    1. Notice the problem in a story and how the Character acts to solve it.
    2. Infer a character's feelings and motivations from what the character says and does.
    3. Understand the setting.
    4. Infer the big idea in a story
    Fluency:

    1. Notice and use phrases to read for meaning
    2. Demonstrate all aspects of phrased, fluent, expressive reading
    Word Study: Recognize and use short vowel sounds in the middle of words that include a consonant cluster. Notice unfamiliar words and use context and word parts to derive the meaning

    Activity:
    Introduce new text "Thunderstorm!"

    Math:  
    Objective: SWBAT........ Identify combinations of two one digit numbers that make 10

    Warm Up: What Makes 10?
    Mini-Lesson: Skip Count by 10
    Activity: Groups of 10 Card Game, Towers of 10 Building Blocks, SWB Pg. 2-3
    Debrief: Discuss student's reflect prompt