Harcourt Reading Apr

Harcourt Reading Apr. 29-May 3

This week, during the Morning Project Read time 8:40-10:00, students will be completing end of year Think Link testing. Monday---first half of Reading test Tuesday---second half of Reading test Wednesday---first half of Math test Thursday---second half of Math test Friday---makeups

Monday---“Busy Buzzy Bee” Days 2 activities Class will complete the following activities, details given in teacher’s guide pgs. noted. 1. Sharing Literature with poem, “Alone”---teacher’s guide pg. 216P 2. Phoneme Isolation---teacher’s guide pg. 216P 3. Blend Segmented Sounds---teacher’s guide pg. 216P 4. Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 216Q 5. Building Background---Talk about bees---teacher’s guide pg. 216S 6. Discuss Story Words which the teacher will write on notebook paper (crawl, female, grains, honey, lays, narrow, spreads, thousand, tongues)---teacher’s guide pg. 216S 7. Words to Remember---textbook pgs. 216-217 8. Prereading Strategies (preview, predict, set purpose), discuss cause/effect---teacher’s guide pg. 217A 9. Discuss story genre nonfiction---textbook pg. 218 10.Class will read the story, “Busy Buzzy Bee” textbook pgs. 219-243 and teacher will ask guided comprehension questions on the same pages in teacher’s guide 11.Discuss Think and Respond questions textbook and teacher’s guide pg. 244 12.Retelling Comprehension Focus: Cause/Effect---teacher’s guide pg. 245A 13.Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 245B

Tuesday---“Busy Buzzy Bee” Day 3 activities Class will complete the following activities, details given in teacher’s guide pgs. noted 1. Sharing Literature with poem, “To Walk in Warm Rain” (explore the word drenched)---teacher’s guide pg. 245E 2. Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 245E 3. Word Work o_e---teacher’s guide pg. 245F 4. Discuss Story Words which the teacher has written on notebook paper (crawl, female, grains, honey, lays, narrow, spreads, thousand, tongues) 5. Vocabulary and High Frequency Words---teacher’s guide pg. 245I 6. Class will discuss the genre nonfiction and reread the story, “Busy Buzzy Bee” textbook pgs. 218-243 and discuss 7. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 247A 8. Grammar: Describing Adjective Words: Weather words---teacher’s guide pg. 247B 9. Writing---Students will help make a chart with work that Busy Bee does on one side of the chart and chores that they do on the other side of the chart. Then they will divide a piece of paper in half. On one side they will pick one work job that Busy Bee does, write about it, and illustrate it. On the other side they will do the same with a job they do.

Wednesday---“Busy Buzzy Bee” Day 4 activities Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pages noted. 1. Sharing Literature with poem, “ Pie in the Sky” discuss taste adjectives---teacher’s guide pg. 247D 2. Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 247D 3. Distinguish Middle Phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 247D 4. Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 247E 5. Words with o_e---textbook pgs. 248-249 6. Discuss Story Words which the teacher has written on notebook paper (crawl, female, grains, honey, lays, narrow, spreads, thousand, tongues) 7. Vocabulary and High Frequency Words---teacher’s guide pg. 249B 8. Students will discuss genre nonfiction, reread, and discuss the story, “Busy Buzzy Bee” textbook pgs. 218-243 9. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 249C

Thursday---“Busy Buzzy Bee” Day 5 activities Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted. 1. Sharing Literature using Big Book, Hattie and the Fox (discuss cause/effect in the story)---teacher’s guide pg. 249F 2. Count Syllables---teacher’s guide pg. 249F 3. Phoneme Addition---teacher’s guide pg. 249F 4. Initial Blends with l---teacher’s guide pg. 249G 5. Discuss Story Words which the teacher has written on notebook paper (crawl, female, grains, honey, lays, narrow, spreads, thousand, tongues) 6. Vocabulary and High Frequency Words---teacher’s guide pg. 249J 7. Students will discuss genre nonfiction, reread, and discuss the story, “Busy Buzzy Bee” textbook pgs. 218-243 8. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 249M

Friday---“The Story of a Blue Bird” Day 1 activities Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide pgs. noted 1. Sharing Literature with big book, To Market, To Market---teacher’s guide pg. 8H 2. Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 8H 3. Phoneme Isolation---teacher’s guide pg. 8H 4. Teach –igh---teacher’s guide pg. 8I 5. Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 8J 6. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 8M 7. Writing: Make a chart of interesting places to visit, pick one and write about how you would travel there 8. Grammar---Describing Words Adjectives with –er and –est suffixes