Transitional Guided Reading Lesson 2

Use pgs. 151-173 in your book as a guide

Text Level Range: J-P; 2nd-3rd

CC Standards Addressed
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Learning Targets
I can monitor for comprehension while reading.
I can use the chunking strategy to decode big words.
I can retell what happened in an article.

Materials Needed:
Families come together on spear-fishing day in Minnesota article
Word flash cards
White board
White board marker

Group Members: Student

Group Contextual Factors (Describe what you know about your students reading
abilities):

Book Title: _Families come together on spear-fishing day in Minnesota Level: _440L_
Lesson Number:2

Date:3/28/17

Introduction of New Book:

Gist Statement: Student, today we are going to read an article about spear-fishing in Minnesota. Its
about a type of spear-fishing technique called Darkhouse spearing. It tells about a man named Mike
and a boy named Brayden and their experience with spear-fishing.

During Reading-
Possible Teaching Points During Reading (Choose 1 or 2-Monitoring, Decoding, Fluency, or Retell):
Today we are going to work on comprehension monitoring. If you are reading a sentence and it doesnt
make sense I want you to go back and read it again to try to find your mistake. Say I am reading the
sentence, Jimmy took a wall to the park. That doesnt make sense so I would go back and read it
again Jimmy took a walk to the park. I want you to make sure that you are using this strategy while
you are reading.

List prompts you will say to support students with teaching points:
Does that make sense?
Go back and read that again.
Did you hear the mistake in that?

Teaching Points After Reading (Choose 1 or 2-Monitoring, Decoding):

Strategy: Chunk big words

Explanation: You chunk the word into smaller parts. Such as the word dinosaur you break it into di-no-
saur.

Lets try this with some words:

Disobedient
Photographer
Communication
Thermometer
Immediately
Tricycle
Spaghetti
Ketchup
Misunderstanding
Toothpaste
Calculator
Temperature
Dangerous
Kindergarten
Watermelon
America
Dictionary

Discussion Question: Can you tell me what the article was about?
Students Answers: Like Canadian spear fishing
They sit in the dark and wait for fish
The shack is warm
They use a spear but it has four spears on one

Word Study

Strategy: Writing Big Words

Explanation of Procedure: I am going to give you some words to write. Lets try.
 Words:
English
Contain
Bring
Know
Green
Person
Quickly

Reflection:
1) What went well with your lesson?
Student could read the article and use the comprehension monitoring technique. He
could read most of the words and needed minimal help to decode the rest. He could
write some of the words and did not get upset when I made him rewrite the ones he got
wrong.
2) What changes would you make if you could?
I would have more words about Spear-fishing. He seemed to be bored because the
words that I was having him read and spell didnt have anything to do with spear-fishing.

3) What information did you learn about your students? (Assess them against your
Learning Targets, Provide Specific Examples)
Student can monitor for comprehension when he wants to. He tends to get discouraged
when he makes a mistake and then tries to get through as fast as he can. This is when
he tends to make most of his mistakes. He gets discouraged with mistakes and needs
lots or praise when he does things right.

4) How will this information inform your next lesson?

I will add lots of praise into my next lesson I will also offer words of encouragement to let
Student know that he is doing a good job and that it is ok to make mistakes if you learn
from them.