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The students The students must understand will develop and the following to answer practice skills to comprehension questions: answer comprehension characters questions based setting on what they plot read. sequencing how to make (General) connections

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES/ SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: Literature Discussion: Ask four-five questions from the questions list Have students share what they liked about the book the most and their reason Art Project: Students draw their favorite part of the story or events that occurred Writing: Students write a summary Students write letters to a character in the story

RESOURCES/ MATERIALS: Books: Refer to the librarian at school or public library Questions: http://www.lauracandler.com/f ilecabinet/literacy/PDFLC/resp onseq.pdf Art: Go to Grade Level chair for paper Go to Art teacher for extra paint/crayons/markers that are needed Technology Document Camera (if room is equipped) to show students pictures

ASSESSMENTS/ OBSERVATIONS Pre-K Pictures Running Record Teacher Observations Anecdotal Notes Oral Presentations Elementary Pictures Running Records Teacher Observations Anecdotal Notes Journals High School Wikis Blogs Participation Literature Reviews Anecdotal Notes Journals Art Portfolio

OBJECTIVES: The student will use oral communication skills. (General)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/ KNOWLEDGE: The students must have an understanding of Character feelings Text to text connections Text to self connections Text to world connections Problem/Solution Conflict

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES/ SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: Literature Discussion: Ask four-five questions from the questions list Have students share what they liked about the book the most and their reason Readers Theatre: Students act out a part of the story Students narrate their feelings while others act the story out Debate: Students assume the role of a character and argue a problem in the story

RESOURCES/ MATERIALS: Questions: http://www.lauracandler.com/f ilecabinet/literacy/PDFLC/resp onseq.pdf Readers Theatre http://www.thebestclass.org/rts cripts.html Costumes: Go to thrift store for cheap clothes or have students and parents donate costumes/clothes

ASSESSMENTS/ OBSERVATIONS Pre-K Pictures Running Record Teacher Observations Anecdotal Notes Oral Presentations Elementary Pictures Running Records Teacher Observations Anecdotal Notes Journals High School Wikis Blogs Participation Literature Reviews Anecdotal Notes Journals Art Portfolio

OBJECTIVES: The students will use language structure to expand their vocabulary when reading. (Second Grade)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/ KNOWLEDGE: The students must have an understanding of Prefixes and suffixes Contractions Singular possessions Abbreviations Antonyms and synonyms Word families Context Clues Figurative language

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES/ SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: Word Detective: Find words in the story they do not know and have student guess the meaning then look the words up to see if they were correct Have students find unknown words and have them make sentences- then give sentences to a partner and have them guess the meaning then look it up Mystery Words: Students are given words with the same prefixes and/or suffixes and they must figure out the meaning Highlighting Unknown Words: Instead of a book, give students a passage from an upper grade and have students read it- have them highlight unknown words and work with a partner to find meanings to the words

RESOURCES/ MATERIALS: Dictionary: Paperback or if equipped with computers go to http://dictionary.reference.com / Third Grade Reading Passages http://www.ncsu.edu/project/la ncet/third.htm

ASSESSMENTS/ OBSERVATIONS Pictures Running Records Teacher Observations Anecdotal Notes Journals

OBJECTIVES: The students will know the parts of a book. (Preschool)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/ KNOWLEDGE: The student must understand The difference between a picture and the text Title Author Page number

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES/ SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: Identification: Students point to a given part of a book Students circle parts of a book Students sort the parts of a book Project: Students make their own books, which includes all of the parts of a book Field Trip to Public Library/school library Take students and have the librarian read a book to the students and show students around the library Group discussion: Students pose questions to other students about the reading Blog entries Students create blogs about books they read and share with classmates Students participate in online discussions and post on each others blogs Journal entries Students write main ideas of a story in journal and teacher

RESOURCES/ MATERIALS: Magazines Books Technology: E-books Powerpoint: http://www.pppst.com/library. html

ASSESSMENTS/ OBSERVATIONS Pictures Running Record Teacher Observations Anecdotal Notes Oral Presentations

The student will use relevant details to support main ideas. (High School)

The students must understand Plot Summary Characters Climax Falling Action Minor details

Computer Lab Blog site: http://edublogs.org/ Journals: Michaels craft store will give teachers discounts with school ID Newspaper template: http://www.yourstudentnews.c om/

Wikis Blogs Participation Literature Reviews Anecdotal Notes Journals Art Portfolio

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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES/ SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: will keep the journal for book club next year to compare Newspaper reviews Students write their opinions of a book to publish in a school newspaper

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