Harcourt Reading Aug

Harcourt Reading, Language Arts, Writing, Read Alouds 12:30-12:45, 1:40- 1:50 Aug. 26-30

Monday---“Ants” Day 2 Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted. 1. Oral Language with Good Afternoon message---things that they can do and ants can do. After message has been written, read the sentences and discuss, track print to point out each spoken word to written word. Find any short i words. 2. Sharing Literature with poem, “Anthill”---teacher’s guide pg. 48P 3. Phoneme Isolation---teacher’s guide pg. 48P 4. Phoneme Blending---teacher’s guide pg. 48P 5. Word Building (short I words)---teacher’s guide pg. 48Q 6. Building Background—talk about ants---teacher’s guide pg. 48S 7. Discuss story word homes---teacher’s guide pg. 48S 8. High Frequency Words (make, they, walk)---textbook pgs. 48-49 9. Prereading Strategies (preview, predict, set purpose), discuss details and using decoding---teacher’s guide pg. 49A 10.Discuss story genre nonfiction---textbook pg. 50 11.Guided reading of story, “Ants” textbook pgs. 50-63. Teacher will ask guided comprehension questions on same pages in teacher’s guide. 12.Discuss Think and Respond questions textbook pg. 64 13.Meet Photographer Barry Runk---textbook pg. 65 14.Retell and Summarize story using main idea and details---teacher’s guide pg. 65A 15.Daily Language Practice—teacher’s guide pg. 65B 16.Grammar: Word Order Review---teacher’s guide pg. 65C 17.Science Read Aloud

Tuesday---Day 3 “Ants” Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pages noted. 1. Oral Language with Good Afternoon Message about ants---After message has been written, read the sentences and discuss, students point out short a words in message, read high frequency words is, in, a, and we. 2. Sharing Literature with finger play, “Ant Hill”---discuss vocabulary of the word about---teacher’s guide pg. 65E 3. Phoneme Isolation (beginning sounds)---teacher’s guide pg. 65E 4. Add Target Sonds to –in and –it---teacher’s guide pg. 65E 5. Word Building (short I and short a words)---teacher’s guide pg. 65F 6. High Frequency Words (make, they, walk)---teacher’s guide pg. 65I 7. Discuss story genre nonfiction---textbook pg. 50 8. Echo Reading “Ants” story and discuss---textbook pgs. 51-63 9. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 67A 10.Grammar: Word Order Review---teacher’s guide pg. 67B 11.Writing---Students will illustrate and write about My Favorite Animal, including talking about the animal color, size, and what it can do. 12.Science Read Aloud

Wednesday---Library 12:25-12:45, 12:45-1:30---PE, 1:30-1:40---Recess, 1:40-2:25---Lexia Reading in computer lab across from classroom. Username and password cards are in a small container close to computer by the classroom door. 2:25-2:50---Science Read Aloud

Thursday---Day 4 “Ants” Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted. 1. Oral Language with Good Afternoon message---about make believe things---After message is written and read, call attention to the spacing between the words in the message. Remind children that if words are too close together, a reader cannot tell where one word ends and another begins. Ask a volunteer to frame the word make in the message and discuss the 2 meanings with sentences: I make ___ for a snack. I make believe that I can ____. 2. Sharing Literature with song, “The Ants Go Marching”---recall details as to what the little ones (1-6) did in the song—make chart---teacher’s guide pg. 67D 3. Phoneme Blending---teacher’s guide pg. 67D 4. Listen for Phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 67D 5. Word Building (with short a and short I words)---teacher’s guide pg. 67E 6. Review story genre nonfiction---textbook pg. 50 7. Review high frequency words (make, they, walk) and story word homes 8. Partner Reading “Ants”---textbook pgs. 51-63 9. Reading Comprehension: Details---teacher’s guide pg. 67I and textbook pgs. 68-69 10.Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 69A 11.Grammar: Word Order---teacher’s guide pg. 69B 12.Writing---Teacher will pass out “Ants” story strips from teacher’s guide pg. T50 and display the words make, They, walk. Students will choose from those words to complete each sentence to complete the story. Afterward, class will cut out strips, place in story sequence and illustrate each to form their own version of the story, “Ants.”