Unit Plan Template s6

Intel® Teach Program Thinking with Technology Course

JillJill Giesler’sGiesler’s ParentParent ReadingReading UniversityUniversity UnitUnit PlanPlan

Unit Author First and Last Name Jill Giesler School District Bonduel School District School Name Bonduel Elementary School School City, State Bonduel, WI Unit Overview Unit Title Bonduel Parent Reading University Unit Summary The parents of kindergarten thru second grade students will be invited to a reading university where they will be learning about how their child learns to read. The workshop will be broken down into 5 different sessions; phonics/phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and summer reading. The parents will become aware of different reading strategies and skills that could help their son or daughter become more successful as a reader. They will be given the opportunity to ask questions, practice strategies, and connect with other resources to help in the reading journey. At the end of every session they will leave with a variety of activities to work on with their child at home. Subject Area Reading/ Title 1 Grade Level Kindergarten thru 2nd grade parents Approximate Time Needed Five 60 minute sessions over the entire year Unit Foundation Habits of Learning Taxonomy Bloom’s Taxonomy: Understanding, Applying, Analyzing Marzano’s: Positive Attitudes and Perceptions About Learning, Acquisition and Integration of Knowledge 16 Habits of Mind (Costa & Kallick): Thinking About Thinking, Questioning and Posing Problems, Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks Reading A.4.1.1 Use a variety of strategies and word recognition skills, including rereading, finding context clues, applying their knowledge of letter-sound relationships, and analyzing word structures A.4.1.3 Demonstrate phonemic awareness by using letter/sound relationships as aids to pronouncing and understanding unfamiliar words and text A.4.1.4 Comprehend reading by using strategies such as activating prior knowledge, establishing purpose, self-correcting and self-monitoring, rereading, making predictions, finding context clues, developing visual images,

Copyright © 2008 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Page 1 of 9 Intel® Teach Program Thinking with Technology Course applying knowledge of text structures, and adjusting reading rate according to purpose and difficulty A.4.1.5 Read aloud with age-appropriate fluency, accuracy, and expression A.4.1.8 Identify a purpose for reading, such as gaining information, learning about a viewpoint, and appreciating literature A.4.2.1 Recognize and recall elements and details of story structure, such as sequence of events, character, plot, and setting, in order to reflect on meaning A.4.2.3 Summarize ideas drawn from stories, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, interpreting events and ideas, and connecting different works to each other and to real-life experiences A.4.2.4 Extend the literal meaning of a text by making inferences, and evaluate the significance and validity of texts in light of prior knowledge and experience A.4.3.2 Identify and summarize main ideas and key points from literature, informational texts, and other print and nonprint sources

Technology E.4.1.5 Generate, send, and retrieve electronic messages

Research and Inquiry F.4.1.3 Recognize, record, organize, and acknowledge information pertinent to a project, accurately blending discoveries into answers

Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes Parents will use the Visual Ranking Tool to discuss and organize reading activities from most important to least important with helping students become more successful readers. Parents will discover different reading skills and strategies to help their child at home. Parents will discuss struggles with reading that their child is going through. Parents will gain resources to help instill good reading habits at home. Curriculum-Framing Questions Essential How can I help my child become a more successful reader? Question

What impact does reading at home have on a child? Unit Questions What is a reading rich environment?

What are the five areas of reading? What are some reading strategies to implement at home? Content What can I do during summer to keep the reading going? Questions What can I do to help with fluency? How do I get me child to read at night? What are some computer activities to help strengthen reading strategies? Assessment Plan Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins Students work on projects and After project work is completed complete tasks

 Parents will fill out a  Parents will keep a journal  Parents will reading inventory. to reflect on their child’s reading implement the strategies  Discussion of parent’s behavior, attitude towards at home and post feelings and experiences as reading, and skill development. questions, comments, and readers. (Based on the reading feedback on the sessions on the reading wiki page. inventory)  Parents will implement the Visual Ranking Tool strategies at home and post questions, comments, and feedback on the sessions on the reading wiki page.

Assessment Summary Reading Inventory: Parents will fill out a reading inventory about how they feel about reading now and experiences they had with reading in school. Observation: We will share feelings and experiences about how our children are coping with their reading struggles and how we can help them become more successful readers. The teacher will observe the parents role playing using the strategies and activities taught. Observation Journal: The parents will reflect on reading observations they see throughout the school year with their child and reading progress. Wiki Page: The parents will communicate questions, share concerns, reflect on observations, discuss how strategies are working, create feedback on how the session is helping their child’s needs, and get support with other resources. Reading Success Sort: Using the visual ranking tool, parents will rank various reading activities from most successful to least successful.

Parent Reading University Evaluation: Parents will participate in an evaluation on how they felt about the five parent reading sessions. Reflection Discussion: Parents will participate in an end of the year discussion on the reading university and if the strategies have helped their child with reading.

Visual Ranking Elements (Complete this section if this tool will be used in the unit) Visual Ranking Project Name (For the Visual Ranking workspace) Reading Activity Sort Project Description (For the Visual Ranking workspace) Using the Visual Ranking Tool, the parents will organize the listed reading activities from most successful to least successful. Prompt (For the Visual Ranking workspace) What reading activity will help my child become a more successful reader? Sorting List (For the Visual Ranking workspace) Reading every night Practice sight words Books on tape or MP3 Reading store signs Talking about favorite books Retelling stories they read Reading chapter books Mom or Dad reading to them Visualizing a story in their head while reading Reading a book over and over Reading many books Practice Ranking (For your future quick reference) Practice Team ID 1: parent01 Password: parent01 Practice Team ID 2: parent02 Password: parent02

Seeing Reason Elements (Complete this section if this tool will be used in the unit) Seeing Reason Project Name (For the Seeing Reason workspace)

Project Description (For the Seeing Reason workspace)

Research Question (For the Seeing Reason workspace)

Practice Map (For your future quick reference)

Unit Details Prerequisite Skills No Prerequisite skills needed. Instructional Procedures Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Phonics/phonemic Reading Reading Fluency Vocabulary Summer Reading Awareness Comprehension Development Welcome – Welcome Welcome Welcome Welcome Introductions of -Introductions -Introductions -Introductions -Introductions myself and parents attending -Review of past session -Review of past -Review of past -Review of past session -Reflections of past session session -Reflections of past Overview – quarter -Reflections of past -Reflections of past quarter Explanation of the quarter quarter Reading University Overview – Overview – Why and the five areas of Explanation of reading Overview – Overview – summer reading is reading. comprehension Explanation of reading Explanation of so important and statistics fluency vocabulary Description – to show how important Phonics and Powerpoint summer reading is. phonemic What do readers do Powerpoint Powerpoint awareness while they read? What is fluency and How do I help my why is it important? child with building Powerpoint Jolly Phonics vocabulary? What will keep my child Comprehension PowerPoint and Activities (see sheet in Fluency Activities reading over the discussion (see binder) (See sheet in binder) Vocabulary Activities summer months? binder for alphabet -Think-Alouds (See sheet in binder) motions) -Read the house -word sorts -Questioning -Reader’s Theater Summer Reading -multiple meaning Tips and Tools for techniques -Fluency with Activities words Parents to -Visualizing punctuation (See sheet in binder) implement at home -synonyms and -Retelling -Short fluency phrases -Visit the library (see binder) antonyms -Rereads -Eyerobics -Set aside a special Explain activities -Phonics Pathways reading time every day for strengthening Model and -Fieldtrips to build Practice Model and Practice Phonics Model and Practice background knowledge development and Strategies Strategies Strategies -Talk about stories phonemic -Role playing -Role playing -Role playing awareness (see -Read books to your binder) Child Good computer Site Good Computer Site

- Alphabet Activities: Good Computer Site Activities: -Record your child reading Tree -Into the Book Activities: -Vocabulary Games – and have them hear - Picture -Fluency Games Play Kids Games.com Dominos -Book Adventure themselves read - Bag Full of -4you4free Fluency -Vocabulary.com -Design a fort and read Activities Vowel Underneath it. Discussion and Sounds Discussion and Discussion and -Create a family reading Model and Practice explore time on explore time explore time on Night Strategies websites websites onwebsites -Role playing

Wrap Up – Questions Wrap Up – Questions Good Computer Wrap Up – Questions and Concerns and Concerns Site Activities: and Concerns -Clifford Concentration Exit Sheet – Questions Exit Sheet – Questions Exit Sheet – Questions -Starfall or concerns Model and Practice or concerns or concerns -Reading Rockets What are you going to What are you going to What are you going to Strategies -Reading Wiki Page try at home? try at home? try at home? -Role playing -PBS: Between the Lions Good Computer Site Discussion and Activities: explore time on -Book Adventures.com websites -Interactive Story Books Wrap Up – Hand Online out Reflection Journals and explain Exit Sheet – Questions or Questions and Concerns concerns What is something you Exit Sheet – gained out of these reading Questions or sessions? concerns What are you going to try at home? Binder- Including Binder – Including Binder – Including Binder – Including Binder – Including sheets on phonics sheets on reading sheets on reading sheets on reading sheets on summer and phonemic comprehension, activity fluency, vocabulary, reading, activity awareness, activity sheets, lists of websites activity sheets, lists activity sheets, lists sheets, lists of websites of websites of websites sheets, lists of Computer lab websites Computer lab Computer lab Computer lab Computer lab

Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction

Resource Design a binder containing all of the worksheets needed (strategies, skill strengtheners, resources, etc.) Student

Nonnative Put worksheets in other languages that would be needed by parents. English Speaker

Gifted Not Applicable Student

Materials and Resources Required For Unit

Binder containing informational sheets on the five reading areas, reading strategies, and Printed Materials resources. Books from various lexiles.

Supplies Games to play at home.

Technology -Hardware Computers, smartboard, projector

Technology -Software Wiki, visual ranking tool

Intel: http://www.intel.com/education/tools/index.htm Clifford Concentration Game: http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/concentration/index.htm Starfall: http://www.starfall.com/ Reading Rockets: http://www.readingrockets.org/ Between the Lions: http://pbskids.org/lions/ Reading Comprehension Powerpoint: http://buildingblocksofed.com/ppt.html Into the book: http://reading.ecb.org/ Think-Alouds: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/102 Book Adventure: http://bookadventure.org/ 4you4free: http://languageartsgames.4you4free.com/print_fluency_phonemic.html Internet Resources Fluency Powerpoint: http://www.cde.state.co.us/coloradoliteracy/crf/downloads/resources/presen tations/Fluency.pdf Fluency Activities: http://www.squidoo.com/FluencyActivities#module53667502 Abc teach: http://abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension/k2/ Tim Rasinski: http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=142267&title=Tim_Rasinski_on_Building_Vocabulary Play Kids Games: http://www.playkidsgames.com/vocabularyGames.htm Vocabulary.com: http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ You tube summer reading video: http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=159726&title=Gotta_Keep_Reading Summer fun with reading: http://www.kpirc.org/uploads/summerrdg.pdf

Other Resources Possibly students to show how to work on the strategies and skills.

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