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