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December 19th, 2017

Learning Intention: Students will read fluently and comprehend a folktale genre book

Success Criteria:
Comprehension: 

1. Understand the genres of realist fiction and folktales
2. Use background knowledge and personal experience
3. Understand character and events using evidence to support statements
4. Infer cause/effect that influence character's feelings and motivations
5. Understand the lesson in a traditional tale

Fluency: 

1. Read dialogue with expression that demonstrates understanding

Word Study: 

1. Recognize and use words with the long -O- sound
2. Use context to derive meaning of words

Activity:

Book Discussion: Hodja and the Robber
Close Reading: Infer
Independent Writing: None

Introduce new text "Bea Prepared"

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December 18th, 2017

Learning Intention: Students will read fluently and comprehend a folktale genre book

Success Criteria:
Comprehension: 

1. Recognize a traditional tale and understand the genre.
2. Infer character traits and motivations in a traditional tail.
3. Predict what will happen next or what a character will do, and confirm or disconfirm predictions.
4. Articulate key understandings related to a folktale.
5. Understand the lesson learned in a story.

Fluency: 

1. Read with appropriate stress on words

Word Study: 

1. recognize and use words with a long -u- sound pattern
2. use the parts of a word to derive meaning of the word
3. notice and use word parts to decode words

Activity:

Reading
Close Reading
Independent Writing: Writing about The Hen and the Dove Identifying the significance of elements in the structure of a story.

Introduce new text "Hodja and the Robber!"

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December 18th, 2017

Learning Intention: Students will read fluently and comprehend a folktale genre book

Success Criteria:
Comprehension: 

1. Recognize a traditional tale and understand the genre.
2. Infer character traits and motivations in a traditional tail.
3. Predict what will happen next or what a character will do, and confirm or disconfirm predictions.
4. Articulate key understandings related to a folktale.
5. Understand the lesson learned in a story.

Fluency: 

1. Read with appropriate stress on words

Word Study: 

1. recognize and use words with a long -u- sound pattern
2. use the parts of a word to derive meaning of the word
3. notice and use word parts to decode words

Activity:

Reading
Close Reading
Independent Writing: Writing about The Hen and the Dove Identifying the significance of elements in the structure of a story.

Introduce new text "Hodja and the Robber!"

September 25th, 2017

Objective:  SWBAT............

Comprehension: 

1. Infer the message 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!"

September 18th, 2017


Objective:  SWBAT............

Comprehension: 

1. Notice the problem in the story and how the character acts to solve it
2. Infer a character's feelings and motivations from what they say and how they act.
3. Understand the setting
4. Infer the big Idea

Word Study/Vocabulary:

1. Recognize and use short vowel sounds and consonant clusters.
2. Notice unfamiliar words and use context to make meaning

Fluency:

1. Notice and use phrases to read for meaning
2. Phrased, fluent, expressive reading

Activity:

Introduce and Read "Thunderstorm" 

August 29th, 2017


Objective:  SWBAT............

Comprehension: 

1. Notice character traits and how a writer shows them.
2. Infer characters' feelings.
3. Infer reasons for characters' actions.
4. Identify problems across a longer text.
5. Think deeply about a complex concept (lying).
6. Discuss a book conversatonally with others.

Fluency:

1. Read with integration of all elements of fluency. 
2. Reflect a character's voice.

Activity:

"A Very Good Lie" CLOSE chapter 3.
Read Chapters 4 and 5

August 28th, 2017


Objective:  SWBAT............

Comprehension: 

1. Notice character traits and how a writer shows them.
2. Infer characters' feelings.
3. Infer reasons for characters' actions.
4. Identify problems across a longer text.
5. Think deeply about a complex concept (lying).
6. Discuss a book conversatonally with others.

Fluency:

1. Read with integration of all elements of fluency. 
2. Reflect a character's voice.

Activity:

Discuss chapters 1 and 2 "A Very Good Lie" and read chapter 3.

August 22th, 2017


Objective:  SWBAT............

Comprehension: 

1. Notice character traits and how a writer shows them.
2. Infer characters' feelings.
3. Infer reasons for characters' actions.
4. Identify problems across a longer text.
5. Think deeply about a complex concept (lying).
6. Discuss a book conversatonally with others.

Fluency:

1. Read with integration of all elements of fluency. 
2. Reflect a character's voice.

Activity:

Discuss and reread chapters 1 and 2 "A Very Good Lie" and read chapter 3.

August 18th, 2017

Objective:  SWBAT............

Comprehension: 

1. Infer character traits
2. Thinks critically about a lead character and the believability of the character.
3. Search for and use information to understand a text

Fluency:

1. Derive the meaning of a word from context
2. Read Aloud with appropriate pausing

Activity:

Introduction of our first chapter book "A Very Good Lie" and read chapters 1 and 2.