Reading

MONDAY-FRIDAY- December 14-18,2009
- We will be reading chapter book Santa Paws and Elves Don't Wear Hard Hats

MONDAY: January 4, 2010
- Introduce story - Stealing Home
- make predictions
- Introduce vocabulary for story - pasttimes    bicker   grudge   irritably   
tutor   impose    glumly    disposition
- place in reading journal (using glossary) - will be tested on Friday
- use transperancy 116 and read vocabulary power pgs.- 300-301
- complete practice book pg.52 (vocabulary review)
- Homework - study vocabulary words and read the story - we will be reading 
chapters of this chapter book throughout the week
- complete sentences using vocabulary words and questions
- Remind fluency builder in intervention practice book 
- get signed every night and test on words and sentences on Friday

TUESDAY: January 5, Stealing Home orally and discuss
- Introduce Tested Skill - comparing and contrasting
- Meet the author and illustrator (pg.319)
- Read Aloud - The War With Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith (TM300G) discuss
- Homework - Reread with an adult and answer questions in theme book 
- Homework - Complete writing prompt about the story

WEDNESDAY:  January 6, 2010
- Reread the story orally and discuss
- Review tested skill- comparing and contrasting
- Teaching transparency (106)
- complete practice book pg.53 together in class (comparing and contrasting)
- Homework - Read story Sisters Forever pgs. 94-101 and 
intervention book  pgs. 48-49

THURSDAY: January 7, 2010
- Homework - Moving Ahead book - reread story Sisters Forever
- Invervention Book - pg. 50(comparing and contrasting)
- Read focus skill pages pgs. 
- Study for test

FRIDAY: January 8, 2010
- Listen to story on tape
- TEST - complete test for Stealing Home
- Read Books For All Learners