All students in this second grade class need to improve their knowledge of adjectives and how to use them

in sentences. Its
important to note that English and Spanish have different syntactic structures when it comes to adjectives. Beginning
Childrens Needs
speakers can learn new color adjectives; intermediate speakers will use other adjectives; advanced speakers will put two
adjectives together with a noun in a short phrase, advanced high speakers, will use correct sentence structure with adjectives
in place. All students will be provided with picture/text support.

Focus
Identify adjectives.
Indentify correct adjective placement.

Purpose of
Reading
We want the children to enjoy this humorous book and join in the reading, which is facilitated by repetitive text. We will also
use the illustrations to find the meaning of unknown words and prompt discussions on the function of of these words
(adjectives) and their meaning.

Share Reading Book:

The Napping House
Grade Level:
2nd grade

Objective: Adjectives
2.21A understand and use the following parts of speech in the context
of reading, writing, and speaking: (iii) adjectives (e.g., descriptive: old,
wonderful; articles: a, an, the)
Genre:
Fiction

Shared Reading

BALANCE APPROACH TO READING PROTOCOL

 The teacher will encourage students to write a different version of the book by using a different adjective to describe the
house. Each student will then contribute a page for the new class big book by creating their own character and descriptive
phrase.

The teacher will encourage students to come-up with their own adjectives to describe the characters. Record the new
adjectives on post-its and place on T-chart. List other animals not listed in the book and ask students to come up with new
descriptive phrases using nouns and adjectives.

Possible Follow
Up

After Reading

On chart paper, draw a T-Chart with the word Character on the right and the word Adjective on the left. As the teacher
reads the story, the students will identify each new character as they appear in the story. As the characters are identified, the During Reading
teacher will write their names on the T-Chart. The students will then be asked to identify the adjective that is used to
describe each character. The teacher will ask students to use pictures to help define each new adjectives. The teacher will
then write the adjective on the T-Chart. The teacher will emphasize the placement of the adjective before each noun. As the
teacher reads the story, the students will join in by reading the repetitive phrase that appears throughout the story.

We begin to engage the students by reading the title of the book to the students. We will then ask students if they know what
the word napping means. The students will then be asked to look at the picture of the house in the first page of the book.
As they look closely at the picture, they will be asked to describe it using one word. The students responses will be written
on chart paper. The words used to describe the house will be referred to as adjectives. We will define adjectives as words
that describe.

Introduction