Picking books Lesson 1

Grade Level: 6

Subject:

Reading

Date:

3-9-09

3-10-09

Teacher: Hawkins

Objective:

Learning the student’s strengths, interests, preferences, needs, readiness, and affect related to content skills. Also, we will choose a book and discover their willingness to read through the reading survey.

Methodology: I will get to know them better by figuring out what types of books they like to read and how well they like reading. This is my main content focus, picking a book and discovering reading willingness and ability (Running record). I don’t want to scare them off, so I will ask about their weekend and what their hobbies are. I want to get to know them and for them to feel comfortable with me and trust me, so we will mostly talk today and keep the atmosphere laid back and easy going. They will complete the survey, the book rating sheet and I will do a running record on both girls.

Materials/ Resources:

Several books, journals, Pencils, Rate the Book sheet, running record papers and Garfield survey.

Focus

Prior Knowledge:

Students need knowledge about popular books, what they are about and opinions regarding reading preference. If they do not know about the books I bring in then we will talk about them and their content.

Prerequisite Skills:

Students need basic reading skills

Practice/Assess

Guided Practice/ survey and discuss:

Hook- having the books with me to discuss and express my excitement over. Together we will talk in a group about the books I have on the list. We will discuss if they have heard of them and what they are about. We will discuss genres and focus on which books fit their personal genre preference. I will also ask them what they want to work on and how they want to structure the tutoring. Lit circles, journals, reading together, they will tell me their preferences and I will derive from that their strengths and needs. We will take about ten minutes after talking about what kinds of things they like to read to take the reading survey and the running records.

Assessment:

I will assess their willingness and ability to read 4 ways. 1 by observing their level of excitement toward the books I bring in, 2 from reading their rating sheets, 3 from their responses to the reading survey and 4 from their running records.

Closure

Wrap Up:

To wrap up we will choose a book that all parties want to read. We will read a short intro to get them excited about reading. We will talk about taking notes in our journals and about writing any questions or thoughts on sticky notes or in our journals if we want to discuss them as a group.

Independent Practice:

Independently they will rate each book according to the directions on the paper. Later in the session they will independently take the reading surveys.

Objective:

Addressing the strengths and needs of both students by using ones strength’s to address the others need’s, and vice versa. We will be looking at the big picture and the small picture within the text and using each other to explore all possibilities and listening to their ideas to help us draw conclusions we might not had found otherwise. I also want to see if they have improved since our first meeting with another running record.

Focus

Prior Knowledge:

They will have needed to read the next few chapters in the book and have an idea of near and far thinking.

Prerequisite Skills:

Reading and writhing.

Practice/Assess

Guided Practice:

Hook- Explanation of near and far thinking, I will have them ask me questions that have both ‘little’ and ‘big’ answers and we will talk about the difference between little or immediate events (near) and big or future events (far). Then I will ask questions to guide them in the right direction and think about the process of their thinking. They will write their questions that come up in the conversation in their journals in a graphic organizer. Then they will discuss their questions and use each other to explore all possibilities. I will need to take them separately to do another running record to see where they stand. While I am with one student, the other will write down more ideas in their chart to share with the other once they get back together.

Assessment:

This lesson will again be assessed mostly through the observation of their participation. I will also look at their graphs and read what they wrote to see if they are getting better at their weaknesses and also to check to see if they are using their strengths to help the other with their weaknesses.

Closure

Wrap Up:

We will look at their charts and talk about all of the possibilities they came up with. We will talk about how we gave each other good ideas and how by listening to each other we gained incite. We will also talk about how there is no wrong answer because we are just speculating about the characters current intentions and future actions.

Independent Practice:

While I am doing a running record with one student the other will have time to write down ideas that they can share with the other when they get back together. During this time they can come up with their own ideas.