Guided Reading Lesson Plan
Text: Baby Bear Goes Fishing PM Reader
High
Frequency
Word Review
Easy Reading
New book
New high
frequency
words
Letter
identification
Phonological
awareness
Other teaching
focus
Group/ Names
of students
Comments
Level: 7
come, here, said, going, not, little
Use the last book from the previous session.
 Help students to work out unknown words from meaning: “What would make
sense there? What would look right and sound right?”
 Get students to check any errors: “Did that make sense?” “You said
_________ . Does that look right?” “Can we say it that way?”
 Get students to reread parts for fluency and phrasing.
Orientation:
 The title of this book is Baby Bear Goes Fishing. Point to the title. The title tells
us what the story inside will be about. When we think about the title and look at
the picture of the front cover what predictions do we have about what this book
might be about? Why might a bear go fishing? GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW: In
this story Father Bear decides he is going fishing and Baby Bear says he likes
fishing and that he will go and help Father Bear. Mother Bear is not happy
about this. But Baby Bear goes to the river and catches his very own fish.
Walk Through /Talk Through Book:
Introduce new words and concepts: high frequency words as you go through the
book, use of bolding as an authorial device
Title Page: Discuss use of a title page. Why might the illustrator draw a picture of fish
in a net here?
 (P2) When Father Bear is at the door he looks very happy. Explain why Mother
Bear is not so happy? How might Baby Bear be feeling and why?
 (P4) How do we know Mother Bear is very worried and give reasons why she
would be worried.
 (P6) How are the two bears fishing? Who do you think will catch a fish and
why?
 (P8) In the picture Baby Bear is still fishing but Father Bear has stopped. Why?
 (P10) What do you predict will happen now and why? How is Father Bear
feeling?
 (P12) Why is Baby Bear excited? How might Father Bear be feeling?
 (P14) What might Baby Bear be saying to Mother Bear? What do you think his
parents would be thinking?
 (P16) What do you think they are going to do with the fish and how do you
know this?
Finding words using initial letters after articulating clearly. What can you hear in the
middle, at the end of...?
Prompt children to practise strategies.
Each child reads the text independently.
 Reinforce where children used reading strategies & prompt for strategies as
needed.
Comprehension Questions
Fluency Practise: p 13
I’m, will, coming, today, too, coming
b: baby, bear, big, etc
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Onset and rime: ig/ big/ wig.pig/ rig/ dig/fig/jig etc
Onset and rime: ill/will/ spill/ hill/ pill/ fill/ gill/etc
Use of speech marks for talking
Use of exclamation marks