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Name:

Kindergarten

April 7th- 11th

Reading Unit 5 Week 4

Topic:

Trade book: Trade Book The Little

Engine That Could

Learning Goals for this Lesson

Standards

Students will know:

Demonstrate comprehension of
non-fiction texts.
Identify what an author does and
what an illustrator does.
Understand that a nonfictional
text provides information.

Students will do:

Make ongoing predictions based on graphics
and text.
Relate pictures and illustrations to the text in
which they appear.
Link knowledge from their own experiences to
make sense of and talk about a text.
Identify the topic of a nonfiction selection.
Ask and respond to simple questions about
the content of a book.
Discuss simple facts and information relevant
to the topic.
Identify text features including titles, headings,
and pictures in the text.
Identify the author and illustrator of a text and
define the role of each in presenting the ideas
or information in a text.

Lesson Essential Question for Reading/LA:

Activating Strategy for Reading/LA:

Reading/LA: K.10

How does the plot in the story help us

learn how people travel around the
world?
Ask the class How do you travel to
school?
Make a t-chart on the smart board. On
one side write (ways that I travel to
school)
Then ask, How do you think students
around the world travel to school?
On the other side of the t-chart write
(students around the world)
-Fill in the T-chart as the students
answer the questions.

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Key vocabulary to preview and vocabulary strategy:

Comprehension target: Plot

High Frequency Words: what, said,

was

Phonics target: initial and medial /u/

Amazing words: engine, tracks, passenger,
roadhouse, mountain, valley

Academic words: plot, noun, formal

letter, preposition, folk tale

Lesson Instruction
Learning Activity 1 for Reading/LA
Text-Based Comprehension: Plot on page 331 in teacher edition
book.
Read LEQ and have children listen as you read aloud The EI
Model a close read - read blue text to the students.
Teach Plot
Reread story
Guide Practice
Use my skills buddy page 74-75 and ask the questions to the students
on page 231

Graphic Organizer:
Beginning, middle, and
end of the tortoise and
the hare on page 74 in
my skills buddy.

Assessment Prompt for LA 1 for Reading/LA:

Check for understanding and monitor progress.
Review what the plot is in a story.
Learning Activity 2 for Reading/LA:
Text-Based Comprehension: introduce the main selection: The little
engine that could. Do concepts of print section.
Explain the genre of the book: a classic is a book that has been read
and enjoyed for a long time.
Do the preview and predict section.
Set purpose and model section: 1st read of the big book with
expression to build interest in the text.
Check retelling: use page 86 in my skills buddy to put the story in
sequence.

Assessment Prompt for LA 2 for Reading/LA:

Check retelling by using page 86 in my skills buddy.
Assignment for
Reading/LA: the
students will fold a sheet
of paper into 3 columns
and will label each
section beginning,

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middle, and end, of The

Little Engine That Could
story.

Learning Activity 3 for Reading/LA:

Text-Based Comprehension: read main selection: retell the
selection, review plot.
-For additional practice with plot use reader and writers notebook page
364
-Re-read book and do 2nd read develop vocabulary section.
Assessment Prompt for LA 4 for Reading/LA:
Monitor progress and check for understanding the 2nd read develop
comprehension notes.

Learning Activity 4 for Reading/LA:

Text-Based Comprehension:
Review: characaters
Practice: have students turn to page 74 in my skills buddy. As students
look at the picture. Read blue text to the students in practice section.
Read Main selection: Guide comprehension with trade book and follow
the 3rd Read and use Develop Comprehension notes.
-For additional practice with plot: reader and writers notebook page 7475.
Assessment Prompt for LA 4 for Reading/LA:
Monitor progress and check for understanding using the 3rd read
develop comprehension notes.
Learning Activity 5 for Reading/LA:
Review content knowledge and amazing words
Build oral vocabulary on page 401
-monitor progress and check oral vocabulary on the bottom of the page
Assessment for plot, read Hiawatha passing in the read aloud
anthology and do assessment on page 409 in teacher edition as a
whole class.
Wrap up your week on page 412

Summarizing Strategy for

Reading/LA:
Exit slip (1): Use the amazing
words in a complete sentence.

Exit slip (2): name the plot of a story that we have read before
(max takes the train) (Trucks roll) (Crash Smash) (Then and
Now)

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