Core Reading Program Leah Haley by EDRDG 400 Sec 002 Mrs. Lamb Second Grade CORE READING PROGRAM FIVE-DAY PLAN DAY 1 CORE TEXT-RELATED ACTIVITY Story Title- Mrs. Brown Went to Town by Wong Yee Summary- This story explains why Mrs. Brown lives in the barn outback. One day she goes into town and gets bitten by a dog. While she is in the hospital the farm animals move into her house. When she returns to her house the floor collapses and destroys it. Now the farm animals and Mrs. Brown live in the barn out back. Theme – Silly Story Common Core Standard – RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Strategic Action Focus Beyond: Make predictions using information from the text About: Recognize and identify some aspects of text structure, such as beginning, events in sequential order, most exciting point in a story, and ending Essential Elements – See Appendices E Comprehension Objective - Readers will learn about the plot of the story in order to make predictions Description of the Lesson – Before During After Questions Just by looking at the cover what do you think this story is about? I wonder why the animals are misbehaving why Mrs. Brown is gone? Why are they living in the barn? Do you think that Mrs. Brown forgives her farm animals? I wonder/ I notice I notice that they are on a farm. I wonder what the animals are going to do while Mrs. Brown goes into town. I noticed that the bed looks like it is getting ready to break from all the weight of the animals. I noticed that even though Mrs. Brown lost her house, she is still happy. Assessment/Check for Understanding – Students will get in groups of three and discuss what they learned from this lesson. After the students have had time to talk, they will present to the class. 1 Reference - Core Story page T191 WORD STUDY MINI LESSON Principle - Long vowel /a/, /i/ Explain the Principle - The students will be introduced to long /a /and /i/ Common Core Standard – Lit.RF2.3. Know and apply grade level phonics and analysis skills in decoding words. Essential Elements - Phonics Description of the Lesson – The stundents will do an activity where they glue pictures on chart paper that have the correct long vowel in it. Teach/Model - I will start the lesson by explaining the long vowel can be shown in many different ways. The vowel sound can change dependending on the letters before and after it. I will write example on the board and we will pronounce the words together. Apply - The class will cut out the words and put it next to the corresponding picture on the chart paper. They will place it next to that has either picture with a long /a/ or /i/. Assessment –The teacher will supervise the students. She will assess them by asking questions and analyzing the student’s response. Reference - Core text GUIDED READING ABOVE LEVEL GROUP Book Title: The Magic School Bus “ Butterfly and the Bog Beast” By Joanna Cole Genre: Fiction, humor Level: P Summary of the Story: The students decide to name their soccer team the “Walkersville Elementary Butterflies. The other students disagree and think that it is a boring name. Mrs. Firzzle decides to take her class on a field trip to show them that butterflies are not boring. They go to a bog and discover what butterflies really do. 2 Theme or Author’s Message: Animals and insects can be fun Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts. In grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Teaching for Strategic Action: Interring: Infer and talk about characters’ feelings, motives, and attributes. Predicting: Predict the ending of a story based on reading the beginning and middle Pre-reading: Have the students look at the cover of the book. Ask them is they know anything about butterflies or bogs. Reading the Text: Why did the teacher bring her students here? What do the students discover? Responding/Discussing the Meaning: How did the students return to the school? What did they learn about butterflies? Word Work: Take apart muilti-syllable words. Reference: Appendix D ON LEVEL GROUP Book Title: Red Fox Running By Eve Bunting Genre: Fiction Level: M Summary of the Story: The red fox struggles to find food for his family. The story takes place in the middle of the winter. After many attempts to find food, he is finally relieved to catch a bob cat. He is able to feed his family. Theme or Author’s Message: Animal’s perseverance to help his family Common Core Standard:CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.2.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts. In grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Teaching for Processing/Strategies/Strategic Action/Teaching Point: Predict what characters will do based on traits revealed by the author. Prereading:Just by looking at the cover what season do you believe this takes place in? Why do you think the sky is red on the front cover? 3 Reading the Text: The fox is very hungry, what do you think he should eat? What do you think the wildcat will do to the fox? Responding/Discussing the Meaning: How did foxs friends help him? How did fox take care of his family? Exploring/Teaching for Processing Strategies: On page 6, how do you think the fox felt? Word Work: Find different meaning to words that are spelled the same. Reference: Bracken Library BELOW LEVEL GROUP Book Title: Come and Play, Hippo By Mike Thaler Genre: Fiction Level: J Summary of the Story: This book is composed of four short stories about Hippo. In the first story Hippo struggles to tell his friend “no”. In the second story Hippo is fearful of Friday the 13th. In the third story Hippo starts a band with his friends. In the fourth story Hippo puts on a magic show for his friends. Theme or Author’s Message: Having good friends is important Common Core Standard: Literacy.RI.2.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts. In grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Teaching for Processing: Beyond: Predict what characters will do based on traits revealed by the author. Prereading: What type of animals are on the front cover? Do you recognize any of they instruments they are playing? Reading the Text: Why does Hippo want to start a band with his friends? Why does the music hurt their ears? Responding/Discussing the Meaning: How did Hippos friends help him with his problem? Have you ever helped someone when they had a problem? Exploring/Teaching for Processing Strategies: Look back to page 38, what are Hippos friends reactions? Word Work: Find different meaning to words that are spelled the same. 4 Reference: Bracken Library 5 LITERACY STATIONS 1 Station 1 Independent Reading Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature leveled text Grouping small group Objectives The students will be able to identify key elements while reading that they can use in their writing. CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what ,when, why, and how to demonstrate Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment I will read the students writing to make sure they understand the concept Reference leveled text Station 2 Word Study Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature individual leveled reading text Grouping individual Objectives The students will be able to decode new words by using different sounds CCSS CCSS.ELAR-LiteracyRF.2.3d Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment I scan the room to make surethe studnets are working on the lesson and do not need any help 1 See Appendix for further support 6 Reference leveled reading text Station 3 Fluency Connected to the CRP Yes No Literature Come and Play, Hippo By Mike Thaler Red Fox Running By Eve Bunting The Magic School Bus “ Butterfly and the Bog Beast” By Joanna Cole Grouping small groups Objectives readers will read their leveled texts to discover their reading level CCSS CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b Read grade level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression on successive readings. Essential Elements Fluency Assessment I will observe the students by making sure they are reaidng their leveled texts Reference Come and Play, Hippo By Mike Thaler Red Fox Running By Eve Bunting The Magic School Bus “ Butterfly and the Bog Beast” By Joanna Cole Station 4 Connected to the CRP Yes No Reading Response Yes 7 Literature Red Fox Running By Eve Bunting Grouping small groups Objectives Readers will be able to remember the key details of a story and create a new ending CCSS CCSS.ELARL2.7 Explain how specific images contribute to clarify a text Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment I will read the students journal summarys to make sure they understand the lesson Reference Red Fox Running By Eve Bunting CLOSURE ACTIVITY DAY 2 CORE TEXT-RELATED ACTIVITY Story Title- Chicks and Salsa Summary- This story is about a group of farm animals that are hungry. The rooster wants to take care of his family by cooking for them. However the entire farm has to work together in order to make the festive meals. In this silly story, the farm aniamls have to rely on the farmer in order to accomplish their goal. Theme – Silly Story: Variety is important in life Group Type – Whole Common Core Standard – RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Objective – Readers will learn about the characters of the story so that they will be able to understand the story in a sequential sequence. Description of the Lesson –I will place six sentence strips on the board and a picture of each animal mentioned in the story. Each strip will show an event that happened in the story. The strips will be out of order. 8 As a class, we will read the strips aloud. The students will recall the events from the story and put them into sequential order. Before the Reading (Prereading/Opening) – This book is used to connect farm animals to the story from my basal text. Start by asking if the students have ever been to a farm. Read: Chicks and Salsa . Essential Elements – See Appendices E Assessment/Check for Understanding –The students will then write a letter to the farmer summarizing the story. They can use the sentence strips and animal pictures as references. This will help me know if they understood the story. 9 Reference - Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds WORD STUDY MINI LESSON Group Type – Small Common Core Standard –CCSS.ELA-Literacy RF.2.3b Know spelling sound correspondence for additional common vowel terms Objective – The students will learn how the spelling of word effectss how the wordis pronouced Essential Elements – Phonics Description of the Lesson –What: There will be a twister board on the floor and spelling words will be taped to each dot of the twister board. The students will take turns spinning the spinner. When the spinner lands on a color, the student will pick an index card from that colored section and then the student will read the word aloud and spell it. Materials needed – Twister board, index cards, markers, tape, spinner Teach/Model - I will explain how the spelling different words is easier when you break the word into sections. I will then write words on the board to help the students Practice - What: There will be a twister board on the floor and spelling words will be taped to each dot of the twister board. The students will take turns spinning the spinner. When the spinner lands on a color, the student will pick an index card from that colored section and then the student will read the word aloud and spell it. Apply - The students will work on this lesson in small groups Assessment - I will walk around and observe that the students are understanding the lesson. I will answer any questions that they may have. Share/Closure –“Today readers we learned about the characters on the farm and how they solved their problem. We put the events of the story in correct order on the board. Next time you are reading a story think about the order of the events that happen in the book.” Reference - Scholastic 10 GUIDED READING 2 ABOVE LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Why do Wolves Howl? Genre: Non- Fiction Level: P Summary of the Story: The book discusses wolf facts and life behaviors. This book has many question and answer information. The illustrations help tell the story. Theme or Author’s Message: Wolves everyday lives Book Annotation: ON LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Horses! By Gail Gibbons Genre: Non-Fiction Level: M Summary of the Story: This is an all about horses factual book. The book tells you what horse eat, how they sleep, and their body parts. It tells you how to care for a sick horse and how to take care of baby horses. It also groups the horses into different breeds. Theme or Author’s Message: Horses are good companions and require a lot of care BELOW LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Skyfire By Frank Asch Genre: Fiction Level: J Summary of the Story: This story is about Bear who finds a rainbow but thinks it is a fire in the sky. He tries to find the end of a rainbow to diminish the fire. He takes a pot of water and throws it at the 2 For Days 2-5 only give annotation, summary, and theme for each of the levels each day 11 rainbow. The rainbow then fades away. His friend bird convinces him that the honey in a near by tree is the gold found at the end of the rainbow. They then make honey cakes with the honey. Theme or Author’s Message: Don’t believe every thing you see is real LITERACY STATIONS 3 Station 1 Independent Reading Connected to the CRP Yes No No,the student will write a summary of the story in their journal Literature Students chose book corresopinding with their own level Grouping small group Objectives The students will identify important points of the story to use in their journal writing CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment I will walk around the room and ask the students questions Reference Level texts Station 2 Word Study Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature Leveled text Grouping small group Objectives The student will identify key points in the story a use them in their writing Common Core Standard: Literacy.RI.2.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts. In grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. CCSS 3 See Appendix for further support 12 Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment I will walk around the room making sure the students are understanding the material Reference leveled texts Station 3 Fluency Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature Skyfire By Frank Asch Grouping small groups Objectives The students will read aloud in their small groups CCSS CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b: Read grade level text orally with accuracy appropriate rate, and expression Essential Elements Fluency Assessment I will observe the students to make sure they understand the lesson Reference Skyfire By Frank Asch Station 4 Reading Response Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature Horses! By Gail Gibbons Grouping small groups Objectives The students will create a new ending for the story CCSS CCSS.ELA-Literacy RF.2.3b Know spelling sound correspondence for additional common vowel terms 13 Essential Elements Phonics Assessment The Reference Horses! By Gail Gibbons CLOSURE ACTIVITY DAY 3 CORE TEXT-RELATED ACTIVITY 4 Story Title- Miss Nelson is Missing! By Harry Allard Summary-Miss Nelson’s class is misbehaivng and has no respect for her. In order to get the students to behave, she disguises hersself as the witch Miss Viola Swamp. Miss Viola Swamp is a strict substitue teacher who loads the children down with homework. The students behave for her and realize how much they miss their sweet teacher Miss Nelson. The class tries to find their missing teacher. Miss Nelson finally returns to the classroom. The students are grateful and behave for her, Theme – What is respect and who deserves it? Group Type – small Common Core Standard – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when,why and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in the text. Strategic Action Focus-Beyond- Infer characters feelings and motivations form the descriptions About: Notice and understand when the writer uses the temporal sequence Objective – Readers use the informatino in the tory to understand how the characters actions contribute to the sequence of events so that they understand the theme of the story. Essential Elements – Comprehension Before the Reading (Prereading/Opening) – During the Reading – (Questions you will ask and Wonderings or Noticings) After the Reading – (Reinforcing the objective) 4 This could be a rereading to reinforce, a new story, or poem 14 Assessment/Check for Understanding – I will observe the students to make sure they understood the plot and theme of the story. I would verify by asking questions Reference - Bracken Library ABOVE LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Tickle’s Tale By Stephen Cosgrove Genre: Fiction Level: P Summary of the Story: Tickle is a curious cat who gets into a lot of trouble. He is left alone for an afternoon and is left with a sticky situation. Tickle was very hungry and decided to read the wizards magic book in order to get food. He must come clean to his owner that he broke the rules. Tickle did not tell his owner the truth so his tail grew three feet long. Theme or Author’s Message: Telling the truth is good for you ON LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats By Ann Earle Genre: Non-Fiction Level: M Summary of the Story: This is story about bat life. Throughout the story it describes the bats features, habits, and how they are good for nature. At the end it describes different species of bats and how to build a bat house. Theme or Author’s Message: Bats are not scary, they are good. BELOW LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: The Bull and the Fire Truck by R.W Alley Genre: Fiction Level: J 15 Summary of the Story: This story is about a bull named Benardo who was taken from his farm in a red truck. Ever since the color red has made him mad. One day a fire truck comes by his new field and he chases the truck through the town. Benardo crashes the truck and he has to go to the doctor. The doctor prescribes him to stay away from red. Theme or Author’s Message: Don’t get mad so easily, you make yourself look silly LITERACY STATIONS 5 Station 1 Independent Reading Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature Tickle’s Tale By Stephen Cosgrove Grouping 2 Objectives The students will answer questions in their journals that I have on a sheet of paper at the center CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what ,when, why, and how to demonstrate Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment The students will write one of their questions on a dry earse board Reference Tickle’s Tale By Stephen Cosgrove Station 2 Word Study Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature The Bull and the Fire Truck by R.W Alley Grouping individual Objectives Students will find long vowles so they can tell the difference between short vowels. 5 See Appendix for further support 16 CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what ,when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text Essential Elements Comprehension, Vocabulary Assessment The students will circle all of the long vowels they found Reference The Bull and the Fire Truck by R.W Alley Station 3 Fluency Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature The Bull and the Fire Truck by R.W Alley Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats By Ann Earle Tickle’s Tale By Stephen Cosgrove Grouping small groups Objectives Students will read a text according to their leveled reading CCSS Common Core Standard – RF.2.4b Read grade-level text orally with accuracy Essential Elements Fluency Assessment The students will get with a partner and buddy read Reference Station 4 Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature Tickle’s Tale By Stephen Cosgrove Grouping Small groups Reading Response 17 Objectives The students will understand how specific images add to the text of a story CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.7 Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text Essential Elements Comprehension assessment The students will draw images from the story Reference Tickle’s Tale By Stephen Cosgrove CLOSURE ACTIVITY DAY 4 Assessment/Check for Understanding – Reference - Bracken Library ABOVE LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Snakes by Seymour Simon Genre: Non fiction Level: P Summary of the Story: This story is about what snakes are, how they survive and the dangers they pose to people. It has fun facts throughout the book. It describes how the snakes hunt and the different snake species. It also goes into detail of hunting tactics. Theme or Author’s Message: Everyday snakes ON LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: “What do you do with a kangaroo?”by Mercer Mayer Genre: Fiction Level: M 18 Summary of the Story: A kangaroo jumps through a little girls window and starts to boss her around. Throughout the story several animals invade the girls home causing a ruckus. The animals chew up her clothes, break her things, and demand food. The little girl can not get rid of the animals and she ends up letting them sleep in her house. Theme or Author’s Message: Stick up for yourself. BELOW LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: To Market, To Market by Ann Miranda Genre: Fiction (song) Level: J Summary of the Story: A woman makes several trips to the market in order to cook a meal. She ends up bringing animals home from the market. To her dismay the animals cause trouble in her house. Fed up, the women takes the animals to a vegetable market and cooks a vegetarian meal instead. Theme or Author’s Message: Treat others as you want to be treated DAY 5 CORE TEXT-RELATED ACTIVITY 6 Story Title - No Sleep for Sheep 6 This could be a rereading to reinforce, a new story, or poem 19 Summary- The Sheep can not get any sleep on the farm. Different animals keep making noises such as pigs, ducks, and horses. They keep getting louder as the night goes on, the sheep have to devise a plan to quiet down the farm. Theme – Teamwork can lead to results Group Type – small Common Core Standard – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings Objective – The students will comprehend the characters motive in the story Essential Elements – Comprehensino Description of the Lesson –The students can check in or out books from the library, and participate in shared and independent reading. Before the Reading : Looking at the sheeps facial expression, how do you think it feels? During the Reading – How can the sheep quiet down the farm? After the Reading – How did the sheeps solve the problem on the farm? Assessment/Check for Understanding –I will walk around the room and ask the students questions Reference - Core Text ABOVE LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Keeping Warm! Keeping Cool! By Brian and Jillian Cutting Genre: Non fiction Level: P Summary of the Story: This story tells the reader about where animals go in the hot and cool weather. It also describes different kinds of animals and where they live. Theme or Author’s Message: Animals are similar to humans 20 ON LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: Lon Po Po by Ed Young Genre: Fiction Level: M Summary of the Story: Three daughters are lefrt home alone while their mom goes to visit their grandma. Lon Po Po poses as their grandma in attempts to trick them. They discover the wolfs true identity and they devise a plan to kill. They trick him into a basket and drop him from a tree. Theme or Author’s Message: Be aware of trickery BELOW LEVEL GROUP Book Annotation: The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Brown Genre: Fiction Level: J Summary of the Story: A bunny has fun and hides from his mother. The mother always chases after the bunny to bring him home. Theme or Author’s Message: Take care of your family LITERACY STATIONS 7 Station 1 Independent Reading Connected to the CRP Yes No No,the student will write a summary of the story in their journal Literature Students chose book corresopinding with their own level Grouping small group Objectives The students will identify important points of the story to use in their journal writing 7 See Appendix for further support 21 CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment I will walk around the room and ask the students questions Reference leveled text Station 2 Word Study Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes(word study) Literature Keeping Warm! Keeping Cool! By Brian and Jillian Cutting Grouping individual Objectives Students will find the long vowels CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what ,when, why, and how to demonstrate Essential Elements Comprehension, Vocabulary understanding of key details in a text Assessment The students will share their answers to the questions to the class. Reference : Keeping Warm! Keeping Cool! By Brian and Jillian Cutting Station 3 Fluency Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature Lon Po Po by Ed Young Grouping small groups Objectives The students will read a level book with their correct level CCSS CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings 22 Essential Elements Fluency Assessment The teacher will walk around asking quesitons and observing the students work Reference Lon Po Po by Ed Young Station 4 Reading Response Connected to the CRP Yes No Yes Literature Lon Po Po by Ed Young Grouping small groups Objectives The students will comprehend the characters motive in the story CCSS Common Core Standard – RL.2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. Essential Elements Comprehension Assessment The teacher will walk around asking quesitons and observing the students work Reference Core Text 131T and Lon Po Po by Ed Young CLOSURE ACTIVITY ASSESSMENTS 8 1. The teacher will supervise the students. She will assess them by asking questions and analyzing the student’s response. Journal: Students will write a reflective response on a station of their choice explaining what they learned and how they can use this method again. Group Time: Students will get in groups of three and discuss what they learned at each station and which station was the most helpful for them and why. After the students have had time to talk, they will present to the class. 8 See Core Planning Guide for support 23 BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 Mrs. Brown Went to Town by Wong Yee The Magic School Bus “ Butterfly and the Bog Beast” By Joanna Cole Red Fox Running By Eve Bunting Come and Play, Hippo By Mike Thaler Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds Why do Wolves Howl? by Aaron Earl Horses! By Gail Gibbons Skyfire By Frank Asch Tickle’s Tale By Stephen Cosgrove Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats By Ann Earle The Bull and the Fire Truck by R.W Alley Snakes by Seymour Simon To Market, To Market by Ann Miranda Lon Po Po by Ed Young xs Keeping Warm! Keeping Cool! By Brian and Jillian Cutting The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Brown 9 See Core Planning Guide for support 24