Comprehensive Literacy
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Guided Reading Lesson
Title: A Town in Trouble
Level: P
Author’s Purpose/Genre: Fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Classifying
Teaching Point: Long and Short Vowels
Essential Question:
What are the sounds of the long and short vowels?
Activating Strategies:
Word Splash
All short vowels (let, will, hot, cups, tell, clock, sit, past, man, such)
All long vowels (day, heat, giant, protest, shade, week, like, road, used, huge)
~have them find the rule that the words are sorted by
Teaching Strategies:
Review the sounds of long and short vowels. Complete a word sort with words they
come up with. Introduce G.O.
Pre-Reading: (picture walk, book introduction, prior knowledge, review)
Book intro about a giant who is coming to destroy a town
Vocabulary:
(pg 2) “Bolliver” (pg 7) “tremendous” (pg 8) “Sallis” (pg 8) “ruins” (pg 9)
“obvious”
During Reading: (shared, paired, independent)
Partner reading—model first
Purpose/Teaching Point: Read words accurately using knowledge of vowel
sounds. With your
partner, find one word for each vowel sound from the story.
After Reading:
Questions: (#1,2 strategy, #3 author’s purpose/genre, #4 review, #5 inference or connections)
Pg ___ 1. How will knowing vowel sounds help you read?
Pg ___ 2. Name 4 words that you found in your sort.
Pg ___ 3. Why is this a fantasy book?
Pg ___ 4. How did Madison and the clockmaker help the town?
Pg ___ 5. Why would the town keep the wooden man?
Graphic Organizer:
A
E
I
O
U
Long
Short
Summarizing Strategies: (answer essential question, turn to your partner, ticket out the door)
Turn to your partner and tell a word with a short vowel, your partner will tell you a long
vowel word.