Reading: Unit One, Story #1: “A Royal Mystery”
Essential Question: How can art and performance help people understand text?
Target Skills: Theme, Elements of Drama, Characterization
Target Strategy: Question
Days 1 and 2: Vocabulary
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Introduce vocabulary organizer
Introduce vocabulary, Student Text, p.44-45
Teacher Read Aloud, “The Iron Princess”, T86-87
Discuss listening comprehension questions on p. T87
Apply Vocabulary, Use Vocabulary Comprehension cards to Think
About It and Talk It Over
Develop and Practice Gestures
Day 3: Read and Comprehend / Target Skill
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Review Vocabulary
Remind students that every fictional story has a theme
Ask Patricia Polacco book to class
Small groups will try to come up with a lesson or theme from this story
As a class, read page 46 and come up with a class theme
Discuss the difference between the topic, the main idea, and the theme
Day 3: Genre Review, Set Purpose
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Review Vocabulary (Gestures)
Preview Topic: Performance and Visual Arts p.47
Review Skill/Strategy: Theme/Question p.46
Preview Genre: Play p.48
Predictive Writing, T93
Begin first read of story modeling fluency
Days 4 and 5: Model Fluency
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Continue First Read (teacher models fluency) of selection
Dig Deeper p.63 and begin to identify details for the theme
Discuss Elements of Drama and Characterization
Days 6 and 7: Student Read
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Students will be assigned roles and read the play aloud
Day 8: Analyze the Play’s Ending
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List Clues activity p.64
Share dialogue and events that foreshadow the ending
Day 9: Comparative Texts
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Read “The Princess and the Pea” individually and answer Thinking
Through the Text questions as you go
Review answers as class
Go over three choices for Text Comparison
Day 10:
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Compare Text to Text (Student Text, p75) together as a class
Independently, compare text to self or text to world and share with partner
Introduce Centers
Day 11, 12, 13: Centers
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Centers
Day 14: Review Story
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Re-read story and review comprehension questions
Review important concepts
Day 15: Test
Centers
Read to Self:
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Students will complete Reader’s Notebook pages 1 and 2
Vocabulary:
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Quick write with vocabulary
Skill-Theme:
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Reading passage and questions on theme
Read with Teacher:
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Leveled Readers
Corresponding Leveled Reader comprehension pages
Literature Discussion:
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Discuss the question essential questions and follow-up questions
Students answer reflection questions