READING
Monday: February 13, 2012
-Lon Po Po
-Read Aloud - A Lesson Well Learned (94G)- Create Mental Images
-Introduce Focus Skill- Compare and Contrast (use teaching transparency 172)
-Building Background (94K)
-Introduce Vocabulary - delighted, dusk, embraced, latch, tender, brittle,
cunning
Read Aloud -Read Vocabulary Power pages 94-95
-use glossary to place definitions in vocabulary journal
-Introduce and make predictions for Lon Po Po
-Homework - Read Lon Po Po pages 96-112
Tuesday: February 14, 2012
-Take the Did You Read AR Test
-Read Lon Po Po pages 96-112
-Homework - Complete Practice Page 16
Wednesday: February 15, 2012
-Discuss Focus Skill - Compare and Contrast pages 116-117
-Complete Practice page 17
Thursday: February 16, 2012
-Listen to story on tape
-Complete Selection Test
-Review Focus Skill - Compare and Contrast
Friday: February 17, 2012
-Focus Skill Quiz
Tues. Wed. Thurs.
Classes will work in 30min centers. Centers will incorporate an I-Pad/I-Pod,
computer, writing, and PSSA Prep station.
I-Pad/ I-Pod Station- Zander's Adventures and Grammar Jammers applications.
-Zander's Adventures-Practices reading comprehension skills, main idea,
summarizing, compare and contrast and sequencing
-Grammar Jammers- practices the differnt parts of speech.
This week we are working with adjectives
Computer- Unique Reader
Writing- Practice Summarizing Short Stories
PSSA Prep- Working in Math and Reading Coach books