Using+Multiple+Reading+Strategies

Week One

 * DAY 1**

__Learning Target__ I can identify which reading strategy I use to help me think.

__Materials:__
 * Reading Strategies Chart: [|ReadingStrategiesChart.doc]
 * The teacher should have this document but not give it to students the first day. Students will get it the second day.
 * Chart paper that is set up just like the Reading Strategies Chart
 * Pencils at rug
 * Clipboards

__Book: The Paper Crane__ by Molly Bang (Annie has two copies of this book - one is in a Scholastic compilations called __Literacy Place__)

__Connect:__ For many weeks we have been working on making inferences. And before that we worked on identifying the main idea of a story - we call that determining importance. Before that we worked on asking questions and wondering. Before that we worked on making predictions. And before that we worked on making connections and visualizing. The secret is this: good readers us ALL of these strategies all of the time. And all you readers sitting in front of me do that too. But sometimes I think you don't realize that you are using these strategies. And the truth is, sometimes I don't realize that I am using these strategies. So here's what we are going to do today. I am going to have a piece of paper here where I am going to chart the strategies that I use while I read and I am going to write down my thinking.

__Guided Practice__ Read the story and start filling out the chart that you created on big chart paper. Here are some good stopping points and some good strategies to add: Page 1: Questioning Page 4: Questioning Page 4: Making inferences Page 4: Making Predictions Page 7: Questioning Page 8: Visualizing Page 27: Questioning
 * I wonder where the man learned to cook?
 * Why did the stranger come in?
 * I wonder if the stranger is poor.
 * I infer that the stranger is poor because his clothes are old and worn out.
 * I predict the restaurant owner will feed the old man.
 * I wonder how the old man will "pay" the owner of the restaurant?
 * I am visualizing the man clapping his hands and this crane coming to life. (Draw you visualization in the third box)
 * I wonder what happened to the crane and the old man?
 * I wonder who that old man was?


 * DAY 2**

__Learning Target__ I can identify which reading strategy I use to help me think.

__Materials:__
 * Reading Strategies Chart: [|ReadingStrategiesChart.doc]
 * Pencils at rug
 * Clipboards

__Book: The Paper Crane__ by Molly Bang (Annie has two copies of this book - one is in a Scholastic compilations called __Literacy Place__)

__Connect:__ Yesterday we read a book by Molly Bang called __The Paper Crane__. You watched as I charted my reading strategies on the board. Today we are going to read this book again. But you are all going to have your own chart on clipboards on the rug. Your job is going to be to record the reading strategies you use as I read this book to you again. This is your time to really practice this strategy because during Reader's Workshop you all are going to get an opportunity to do this with the books you have been listening to.

Review the reading strategies.

__Guided Practice:__ You read the book and stop every few pages for students to record their thinking. Students can Turn and Talk to a partner a couple of times or share out to the teacher. Do what makes sense in the moment.

__Teach:__ Today you are going to do this during Reading Groups. You are going to get little pieces of paper like this: You will read the book you have been listening to during your reading center and you will write a strategy down and then do an excellent job explaining it. If you finish it then you can get a second sheet and explore a different reading strategy. We will be posting excellent work on the board!

Do the same lesson as Day 1 but do it with __Sadako and the Paper Crane__. This lesson will take two days.
 * Day 3 - 4**

__Learning Target__ I can identify which reading strategy I use to help me think.

__Materials:__
 * Reading Strategies Chart: [|ReadingStrategiesChart.doc]
 * The teacher should have this document but not give it to students the first day. Students will get it the second day.
 * Chart paper that is set up just like the Reading Strategies Chart
 * Pencils at rug
 * Clipboards

__Book:__ __Sadako and the Paper Crane__ by Eleanor Coerr

__Connect:__ For two days we have been reading "The Paper Crane" by Molly Bang. We have worked on using lots of different reading strategies when we read and we have been charting our thinking. Let's take a look at the chart we made together when we read this book. Today - you all are going to continue to chart your connections, predictions, inferences, visualization, etc. etc. I will stop at various parts of the book and give yo a second to think. You can chart any reading strategy you are using at that time...

__Good places to stop and ask students to think:__ Page 1: Questioning
 * Where is Hiroshima?
 * Why is Sadako looking for a good luck sign?

Page 3: Connections
 * The smell of good food cooking makes me get up from bed too.

Page 4: Questioning
 * What is the atom bomb?
 * What is peace day?

Page 5: Connection
 * Chizuko and Sadako remind me of Chester and Wilson. In that book it says that they were two peas in a pod and in this book it says that Sadako and Chizuko were two pine needles on the same twig.

Page 5: Visualizing:
 * I am visuzualizing the spun cotton candy. I think it's pink and huge. I can hear music playing in the background and I can see fireworks in the sky above me. They are red and green and orange.

Page 6: Connection
 * The Peace Park reminds me of the Peace Rock we saw in O'Day park in Villa Victoria.