Kaela Sakorafis

Shared Reading Weekly Overview

Text: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
Day of the
Week

Monday
Pragmatic

Tuesday
Semantic

Wednesday

Teaching Point

Demonstration/Learning
Activity Notes
Talk about different methods
including grabbing a snack,
finding an interesting book,
getting comfortable. *Shows
students to preview the books
and may show by example how
to settle in
Blue Horse Show image of the
horse
Red Crocodile Show image of
the crocodile *More challenging
word

CCSS

Repetition

Use of the word and.. and is

repeated after every new
animal is introduced.
Ex: Last page.. anda polkadotted donkey

Craft and
Structure.
5.
Literature

Demonstrate
Understanding of
sounds-orally
produce sinflesyllable words

Ex: a blue horse

Phonologi
cal
Awarness.
2b.Found
ational
Skills

Retelling the story

in regards to the
characters and
how they are
depicted. Uses
the illustrations to
describe their
character.

Child 1 is the artist, acts out

the image in the picture
Child 2 is a blue horse, acts
out the actions of the horse
*Children could also draw their
own illustrations while the story
is being retold.

Strategy for
getting settled
into reading.

Using the images

in the stories to
help make sense
of the text on the
page.

Syntactic

Thursday
Graphophonic

Friday
Fluency
Practice/Respons
e Activities

Blue = 1 syllabul
Buh -loo

Range of
Reading
and Level
of
Reading.10
.Literature

Integratio
n of
K&I.7.Lite
rature

Key Ideas
and
Details.2.
Literature

The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse

Mini-Lesson Teaching Point: Using the illustrations to understand
context
Part of the Reading Process Model:
Yesterday we learned how to get ourselves to settled into
Connection

reading, so today we are going to get settled in by getting

comfortable, and finding a cozy spot so that we can dig deeper
into the reading.

Teach

Active
Engagement

Link

Remember when we read Hungry Catepillar last week, and

sometimes we found it difficult to say the word catepillar
Well, we can use the pictures to help us figure some of these
trick words out.
Today, I am going to show you all a strategy for understanding
the text in a story when a word is too difficult to pronounce.
So lets take a look at some of the words that we read in The
Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse today. If we flip to the first
page we see the text a blue horse *Puts phrase written on
the board. So we may find this text a little tricky when we first
look at, but what if we scan the page in the book and look at
the illustrations.
However, when we look at the image we see that there is a
horse that is blue on the page. So when we get to the word
blue, we start with the sounds b
Steps:
1. Read a phrase (try your best)
2. Look at the illustrations
3. What do you see?
4. Put the sounds together in the words based on what we
recognize
Have the child try it- turn to the person next to you and
describe how you would use this strategy? What would you be
using in the book?
Read together with the class .. a red crocodile Then flip to
the image we see that the picture shows us a crocodile. Can
we use this image to help us decode the text in the story?
How to do it:
1) Tried to read the phrase and it was tricky
2) Scan the page
3) Look for helpful illustrations
4) Refer back to the words and the sounds we know using
the images to explain the context
So, when do you guys think that we can use this strategy?
During our independent reading time, this is a great strategy
to help us understand what is going on in the story and to help
us through some of those tricky words. So remember to follow
the steps when you come across something you dont
understand to help you sound out words and know more about
the story. Repeat the steps..
1)

Tried to read the phrase and it was tricky

Scan the page
Look for helpful illustrations
4)
Refer back to the words and the sounds we know using the images

2)
3)

to explain the context

Sharing (individual,
partner, group)

Share with your reading groups how you have used this
strategy or how you think you might use it.
*What did you learn about yourself as a reader?