Reading Lesson Plan Hottest Coldest Highest Deepest

Literature Standards: #1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding. #4: Determine meaning of words as they are used in a text. #6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator. #7: Explain how illustrations contribute to what is conveyed. #10: Read and comprehend literature.

Informational Standards: #2: Determine the main idea of the story. #3: Use language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause and effect.

Foundation Standards: #3: Phonics #4: Fluency

Student statements: 1. I can ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding. 2. I can describe use vocabulary strategies. 3. I can determine the author’s purpose for writing a story. 4. I can tell the meaning of words used in context. 5. I can tell who is telling the story. 6. I can use illustrations to help me understand the story. 7. I can determine the main idea of a story. 8. I can sequence the story. 9. I can figure out compound words and use them correctly. 10. I can sound out unfamiliar words using phonics strategies. 11. I can read without difficulty. 12. I can compare and contrast. 13. I can use a venn diagram.

Activities: Discuss 'author's purpose': why does an author write a story? Discuss the reasons: *to inform or teach the reader about something *to entertain the reader *to persuade the reader to do something *to give us their opinion, ideas, and feelings about something Read “The Two Largest U.S. Cities” on page 37. Discuss the two cities: New York and Los Angeles. Complete a venn diagram to compare and contrast the two cities. Discuss why the author wrote the passage, determine the purpose. Vocabulary strategy page 38, Compound Words. Read “Geography Bee” on page 39 and discuss how each vocabulary word is used in text. Students learn new vocabulary for Hottest Coldest Highest Deepest. Students will use glossary to find meaning, part of speech, syllables, suffix/prefix for each new vocabulary word.

What is the story genre? What does an expository nonfiction story tell us? Students will read Hottest Coldest Highest Deepest and get reading log signed. We will read the story out loud in class. Ask and answer questions as we read. What kind of information is the author giving the reader? Determine the author's purpose for writing the story: (inform or teach a lesson, persuade, entertain, give opinion.) Discuss compare and contrast. How do these extreme environments compare to my environment? Look at each illustration and discuss how it helps us understand parts of the story. Discuss the main idea of the story. What are some supporting details for the main idea? How do the graphs and text features of the story help the reader understand? We will listen to this story on CD before our test. Each student will take an AR test on this story sometime during the week. We will complete corresponding workbook pages.

Modifications: Altered or modified assignment as decided on by spec. ed teacher. Summarize Extended Time Reader as needed

Assessment: Formative Vocabulary Formative Comprehension