Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 1 Instructional Focus: Get Ready to Read (BEFORE)
GET READY to READ
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Activate Background Knowledge & Develop Oral Vocabulary
Concept Talk (Day 1 Red)
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Concept Talk and Anchored Talk
Big Question Video/Video de la pregunta principal (DD1)
Concept Talk Video/ Video de hablar del concepto (DD1)
Vocabulary (in context) (Day 1 Blue)
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Tested Vocabulary- Lesson Vocabulary
-Vocabulary Activities/Actividades de vocabulario (DD2)
-Vocabulary Flash Cards/Tarjetas de vocabulario (DD2)
Gallery Walk
Research and Inquiry (Day 1 Orange)
Main Selection (Day 2 Blue)
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Pre-reading strategies
Story Structure/Text Structure (Day 2 Red)
Writing (short time frame)
 Journal writing: reflection/prediction
BEFORE reading instructional strategies
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 2 Instructional Focus: Get Ready to Read (BEFORE)
GET READY to READ
BEFORE reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Activate Background Knowledge & Develop Oral Vocabulary
*Concept Talk (Day 2 Red)
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*Concept Talk and Anchored Talk
Big Question Video/Video de la pregunta principal (DD1)
Concept Talk Video/ Video de hablar del concepto (DD1)
*Gallery Walk
Main Selection (Day 2 Blue)
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Build Background
Lesson Vocabulary (in context) (Day 2 Blue)
Conventions (Day 1 Orange)
DAY 3 Instructional Focus: Read and Comprehend (DURING)
READ and COMPREHEND
DURING reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Main Selection (Day 2 Blue)- Teacher reads aloud selection while students follow along (half of selection)
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Guide Comprehension supplemented by Utah Core Standards Protocol
Extend Thinking
Vocabulary (Day 1 Blue)
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Tested Vocabulary- Academic Vocabulary
Vocabulary Strategy (Day 2 blue)
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 4 Instructional Focus: Read and Comprehend (DURING)
READ and COMPREHEND
DURING reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Read and Comprehend Text
Main Selection (Day 3 Blue)- Teacher reads aloud selection while students follow along (last half of selection)
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Guide comprehension supplemented by the Utah Core Standards Protocol
Extend Thinking
Model Fluency (Day 3 Blue)
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Model Fluency
Reread for Fluency
Spelling
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Spelling Pretest (Use to select words) (Day 1 Orange)
Spelling (Day 2, 3 Orange)
Writing (shorter time frame OR a stage of an extended time frame assignment)
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Menu of writing activities OR Four Squares Writing Method
-Journal: Word Bank/Diario de palabras (DD 2)
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 5 Instructional Focus: Read and Comprehend (DURING)
READ and COMPREHEND
DURING reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Read and Comprehend Text
Main Selection (Day 3 Blue)-Choral Read Portion of Main Selection (with CD or Teacher)
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Guide comprehension supplemented by the Utah Core Standards Protocol
Pair Reading of Main Selection
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Assign comprehension questions for specific pages
*Use Reciprocal teaching, Think Critically, Oral Guided Reading Questions
Check Comprehension (Day 1 Blue)
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Comprehension Skill and/or
Comprehension
-Imagine It!/Imaginalo (DD 1)
-Student Text
-*Readers/Writers Notebook
-*Graphic Organizers-Teacher’s Resource DVD
Literary terms (Day 2 Red)
Writing (shorter time frame OR a stage of an extended time frame assignment)
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Menu of writing activities OR Four Squares Writing Method
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 6 Instructional Focus: Read and Comprehend (DURING)
READ and COMPREHEND
DURING reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Read and Comprehend Text
Independent Reading of Main Selection
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With comprehension questions for specific pages, could use Reciprocal teaching, Think Critically, Oral Guided Reading Questions
Let’s Learn It (Day 4 Blue)
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Fluency
-Student Text
*Differentiated Instruction (skill based small group instruction)
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Centers for Everyone on reading street- Let’s Write!
Retelling (Day 3 Blue)
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Retelling
-Retelling Cards
-Story Sort/ Ordenacuentos (DD 5)
Writing (shorter time frame OR a stage of an extended time frame assignment)
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Menu of writing activities OR Four Squares Writing Method
Word Analysis (Day 2 Red)
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Word Analysis
Conventions (Day 2 Orange)
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Daily Fix-it
-* Readers/Writers notebook
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 7 Instructional Focus: Language Arts (AFTER)
LANGUAGE ARTS
AFTER reading instructional strategies
Whole group instruction 40-50 minutes
Purpose: Writing and conventions; differentiated Instruction; formative assessment & connection to Social Studies, Science and Culture
Conventions (Day 1 and 3 Orange)
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Conventions- Daily Fix-it
-*Let’s Practice It!-Teacher’s Resource DVD
-Grammar Jammer/GramatiRitmos
(DD 3)
-*Transparency- Teacher’s Resource DVD
Review- Comprehension Review (Day 5 Red/Green)
-*Let’s Practice It!- Teacher’s Resource DVD
Think Critically (Day 3 Blue)
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 8 Instructional Focus: Language Arts (AFTER)
LANGUAGE ARTS
AFTER reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Writing and conventions; differentiated Instruction; formative assessment & connection to Social Studies, Science and Culture
Let’s Write It (Day 3 Orange)
-Student Text
Concept Wrap-Up (Day 5 Red/Green)
Review- Vocabulary review (Day 5 Red/Green)
Research Skill (Day 3 Blue)
-*Readers/Writers notebook or other print source
Writing (shorter time frame OR a stage of an extended time frame assignment)
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Menu of writing activities OR Four Squares Writing Method
Research Skill (Day 3 Blue)
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Readers and writers notebook or other print source
Writing (shorter time frame OR a stage of an extended time frame assignment)
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Menu of writing activities OR Four Squares Writing Method
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 9 Instructional Focus: Small Group (DIFFERENTIATION)
SMALL Group Instruction
AFTER reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Writing and conventions; differentiated Instruction; formative assessment & connection to Social Studies, Science and Culture
Writing (shorter time frame OR a stage of an extended time frame assignment)
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Menu of writing activities OR Four Squares Writing Method
Formative assessment of language objectives (leading to language proficiency targets)
*Final Products & Centers
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Demonstrate comprehension of text and application of vocabulary orally and in writing through small groups
*Differentiated Instruction (skill based small group instruction)
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Centers for Everyone on reading street- Let’s Write!
*Connection to Social Studies, Science, and Culture
Daily Planning Template for 6th Grade Calle de la Lectura
DAY 10 Instructional Focus: Small Group (DIFFERENTIATION)
SMALL Group Instruction
AFTER reading instructional strategies
40-50 minutes
Purpose: Differentiated Instruction; formative assessment & connection to Social Studies, Science and Culture
Formative assessment of language objectives (leading to language proficiency targets)
Individual/pair/group presentation projects
*Final Products & Centers
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Demonstrate comprehension of text and application of vocabulary orally and in writing through small groups
*Finish writing assignment OR Differentiated Instruction
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*Centers for Everyone on reading street- Let’s Write!)
*Other options:
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Journal: Word Bank/Diario de palabras (DD 2)
Writer’s workshop
Technology integration
*Connection to Social Studies, Science, and Culture