Session 15 Most reading partners have completed this session already, however, I will post the lesson plans below in case it is helpful for those partners who have not taught this lesson yet. 3rd Grade Session 15: Lesson Plan and Graphic Organizer 4th Grade Session 15: Lesson Plan and Procedural Text to Read ("How to Build Your Paper Airplane") Session 16 Session 16 begins the week of Monday, February 13th. 3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will focus on describing causes and effects within informational text. Support your reader as they consider what happens (effect) and why it happens (cause). Use the prompts within the lesson plan to practice describing cause and effect outside of a reading context. You might also use the worksheet on the back of the lesson plan to practice matching causes and effects in isolation before doing this type of thinking while reading an informational text. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan and matching worksheet that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will focus on interpreting information found in charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and photographs. As your student reads an informational text, prompt them to interpret these text features by asking:
See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
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Session 13I apologize for the tardiness in posting session 13. Most reading partners have completed this session already, however, I will post the lesson plans below in case it is helpful for those partners who have not taught this lesson yet. 3rd Grade Session 13: 4th Grade Session 13: Session 14Session 14 begins the week of Monday, January 30th. 3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will focus on main idea, specifically the difference between a main idea and a topic. This builds off of session 13 when the focus was finding the topic, subtopic, and details. To support readers as they distinguish between the topic and the main idea, use the "What? So What?" graphic organizer included in the lesson plan. Students can record this chart and their thinking in their journals. Asking ourselves "What?" helps us identify the topic. Asking ourselves "So what?" pushes our thinking about what the author's perspective is on the topic. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will continue to focus on identifying the structure of a nonfiction text. Over the course of session 13 and session 14, all five text structures are reviewed (chronological, comparison, descriptive, cause/effect, and problem/solution). It is okay if you do not have examples of each text structure to show to your reader. Prompt students to talk about previous texts read in class or during reading buddy sessions that exemplify each type of text structure. Push your reader to explain how they identified the text structure and to consider how this organization adds to the meaning of the text. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
The calendar below reflects recent changes to the school calendar due to inclement weather. Due to recent snow days, Session 12 will be completed either the week of January 9th or the week of January 16th. 3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will ask and answer questions while they read a nonfiction book in order to form ideas about a topic. First spend some time comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction texts. Then foster a curiosity about the topic of your text and encourage your reader to ask questions as they read. Prompt your student to notice when the author has answered a question the reader asked. Use the graphic organizer on the back of the lesson plan as a template for the student's journal. Record questions and answers about the infomration in the text in the journal. After reading be sure to talk about lingering questions that went unanswered. Discuss ways readers might find answers to their lingering questions. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan and graphic organizer that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will determine the meaning of unknown words in a nonfiction text. Connect to the previous lesson about determining the meaning of unknown words in a fiction text. Point out how the same strategies can also be used while reading nonfiction texts. Discuss and demonstrate how nonfiction text features are an additional way readers might figure out the meaning of an unknown word in a nonfiction text. For example, use the glossary to look up a word. Use the chart in the lesson plan to structure your written response for this week. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
Due to winter break, Session 11 will be completed either the week of December 19th or the week we return from winter break (January 4th- Januardy 6th) depending on the day of the week you meet with your student. 3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will focus on figuring out the meaning of unknown words by looking for definitions, synonyms, or antonyms nearby. This builds on last session's lesson plan which focused on rereading nearby sentences in order to guess what a tricky word means. Help your reader understand that readers use a variety of strategies for figuring out unknown words – if one strategy doesn't work, they try another. There are examples within the lesson plan of using a defintion, a synonym, and an antonym to figure out tricky words. Talk through these examples with your reader. Then use the prompting questions as you read the book in your student's reading bag. Students can create a graphic organizer inside of their notebooks similar to the one referenced in the lesson plan. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will focus on summarzing nonfiction text by using the main idea and details. This lesson builds off of last session's lesson plan which focused on finding the main ideas and supporting details of a nonfiction text. Summarizing is an important skill across many contexts. Discuss various real-world instances that require summarizing (telling someone about your day, telling a friend about a movie, etc.). Use the prompting questions to support your reader as they summarize nonfiction text. Use the writing prompt and guide students as they write a summary of the nonfiction text they are reading. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
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3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will focus on figuring out the meaning of tricky words by rereading the sentences around them and looking at the illustrations for clues. Be sure readers understand that coming across tricky words is normal. It happens to readers of all ages. Help students understand the importance of noticing tricky words and doing something to figure them out. Practice the following process that readers might use to figure out the meaning of tricky words. 1) STOP! Notice that you are stuck on the word. 2) Reread the sentence before and look for clues. 3) Read the sentence after and look for clues. 4) Replace the unknown word with a “guess” word and see if it makes sense. Encourage students to also use the illustrations to help them figure out tricky words. Students can create the graphic oraganizer referenced in the lesson plan in their own notebooks. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan and graphic organizer that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will focus on identifying the main idea of a nonfiction text and supporting it with key details. The main idea is the overall idea that the author wants you to know about the section that you are reading. Readers can find a main idea for a paragraph, a section, or an entire book. Students can create the graphic oraganizer referenced in the lesson plan in their own notebooks. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan and graphic organizer that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
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3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will focus on noticing how illustrations can add detail to the retell of a story. Connect this week's lesson to the previous lessons focused on retelling (identifying parts of a story and using sequencing words). Spend time discussing with your reader the illustrator's choices and the impact they have on the reader. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will focus on using details from a non-fiction text to explain their thinking. After spending several weeks using fiction texts, we will spend time exploring non-fiction texts. Readers will now bring non-fiction text to read during sessions. Spend some time discussing this genre (type of text). This week readers will practice thinking while reading non-fiction text. Encourage your reader to notice new learning and to use facts to make inferences. Making inferences requires the reader to use what they already know about a topic and what the author tells them about the topic to come up with their own idea. Use the prompting questions and writing activity in this week's lesson plan to support your reader. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will focus on retelling a fiction story by using sequencing words (first, next, then, last). This builds off of Session 7 when they focused on retelling by identifying the setting, characters, problem, and solution. Help your reader understand the connection between the two lessons and the importance of both identifying story elements and using sequencing words when retelling fictional text. On the back of this week's lesson plan there is a graphic organizer that you can recreate in the notebook. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan and graphic organizer that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will focus on determining the meaning of unknown words or phrases in fiction text. It is important for readers to learn how to figure out the meaning of unknown words because as readers we all come across unfamiliar terms and phrases. Use the prompting questions and graphic organizer to help your reader gradually take on more responsibility for figuring out the meaning of unknown words and phrases. To increase ownership, ask the student to explain how they figured out the meaning. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
As always, we are thankful for each of our reading partners! Thank you for investing in our readers academically, socially, and emotionally. There will not be a new lesson plan in your reading bag this week since it is a short school week. Please use the time in your session on Monday or Tuesday to catch up on previous lesson plans or to revisit a skill from a previous lesson plan that will benefit your reader. Important Dates and Reminders
3rd Grade: This week 3rd grade readers will focus on retelling a fiction story by identifying the setting, characters, problem, and solution. The lesson plan includes important prompting questions to support readers with thinking about each story element. In your student's bag this week there will also be a graphic organizer that you can use or recreate in the notebook. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan and graphic organizer that will be in your student's reading bag. 4th Grade: This week 4th grade readers will focus on identifying one trait of a character and supporting it by giving examples of what the character does, says, and thinks. It is important for students to understand that a trait is a word that describes how a character acts over time (it is different than an emotional feeling). As you support your student, be sure to reveal the process of how to identify character traits. To do this use the prompting question in the lesson plan-- What is your character doing? Saying? Thinking? What do these things tell you about your character? Here is a list of character traits. This chart is intended as a resource-- trying to teach all of these traits to students at one time would be, of course, overwhelming. Instead you might consider choosing 1-3 traits that apply to the fiction text you are reading to teach your reader. See below for a sneak peek at the lesson plan that will be in your student's reading bag. Important Dates and Reminders
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