Harcourt Reading Jan. 7-11
Monday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 1
Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide
pgs. noted.
1. Sharing Literature with Big Book, From Head to Toe---recognize
action words (verbs)---teacher’s guide pg. 62H
2. Identify Initial Phonemes---teacher’s guide pg. 62H
3. Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 62J
4. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 62M
5. Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People (Proper Nouns)--teacher’s guide pg. 62N
6. Read Decodable Book 11 story, “Mort’s Trip To the Store” and
accelerated reader testing
Tuesday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 2
Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide
pgs. noted
1. Sharing Literature with poem, “How To Eat a Poem”---figurative
language---teacher’s guide pg. 62P
2. Identify Initial Digraphs qu, wh---teacher’s guide pg. 62P
3. Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 62Q
4. Discuss story words (Grandpa, library, name, stories, teacher, Texas,
Tomas Rivera)----teacher’s guide pg. 62S middle
5. Word Power (about, books, by, family, grew, read, work, writing)--teacher’s guide and textbook pgs. 62-63
6. Prereading (preview, predict, set purpose, character,
sequence/summarize)---teacher’s guide pg. 63A
7. Discuss story genre biography---teacher’s guide and textbook pg. 64
8. Class will read the story, “Tomas Rivera” and teacher will ask guided
comprehension questions---teacher’s guide pg. 65-80
9. Retell and Summarize the story---teacher’s guide pg. 83A
10.Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 83B
11.Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg.
83C
Wednesday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 3
Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide
pgs. noted.
1. Sharing Literature with poem, “Story Time” (imaginary and fantasy)--teacher’s guide pg. 83E
2. Phoneme Isolation---teacher’s guide pg. 83E
3. Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 83E
4. Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 83F
5. High Frequency Words---teacher’s guide pg. 83I
6. Discuss story genre biography and reread and discuss story, “Tomas
Rivera”---textbook pgs. 64-80
7. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 85A
8. Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg.
85B
9. Read Decodable Book 11 story, “The Fort” and accelerated reader
testing
Thursday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 4
Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide
pgs. noted
1. Sharing Literature with poem, “Grandma’s Lap” (multi-meaning
words)---teacher’s guide pg. 85D
2. Phoneme Substitution---teacher’s guide pg. 85D
3. Word Building---teacher’s guide pg. 85E
4. High Frequency Words---teacher’s guide pg. 85H
5. Discuss story genre biography and reread and discuss story, “Tomas
Rivera”---textbook pgs. 64-80
6. Comprehension: Character (practice and apply recognizing character
traits)---teacher’s guide pg. 85I, 86-87, textbook pgs. 86-87
7. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 87A
8. Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg.
87B
Friday---“Tomas Rivera” Day 5
Class will complete the following activities, details given on teacher’s guide
pgs. noted
1. Sharing Literature with Big Book, From Head to Toe---listening
comprehension discussing character traits and extending the pattern--teacher’s guide pg. 87D
2. Phoneme Isolation---teacher’s guide pg. 87D
3. Phoneme Addition---teacher’s guide pg. 87D
4. Inflections –es---teacher’s guide pg. 87E
5. Words to Remember---teacher’s guide pg. 87H
6. Reread and discuss story, “Tomas Rivera”----textbook pgs. 64-80
7. Daily Language Practice---teacher’s guide pg. 87K
8. Grammar: Special Names and Titles for People---teacher’s guide pg.
87L
9. Read Decodable Book 11 story, “More Corn” and accelerated reader
testing