October+plans

Week One:
Monday: Talk about making predictions before you read using the cover (and title). Demonstrate with read-aloud. Talk about specific evidence / clues. Students do reader response with the cover of the chapter book.

Tuesday: Read Chapter 1, and students re-tell what happened and then predict what will happen in Chapter 2.

Wednesday: Check the prediction by retelling chapter 1; predict the next chapter. Talk about using the chapter titles.

Thursday: Continue checking prediction and predicting the next chapter.

Begin to remove structure from worksheet until the work is more independent.

Keep centers the same as last week but introduce rotating centers.

Week Two:
Tuesday: Use the last chapter to make predictions about the next chapter.

Wednesday: Finish chapter book. What things that you predicted came true, and what did not?

Thursday: Use a piece of artwork to make predictions / evidence about what's going on in the art.

Week Three:

 * Day 1:** Start Keats author study; powerpoint of his life; kids write about what they learned about him in Readers' Notebooks


 * Day 2:** Read __The Snowy Day__ and re-tell it across 5 fingers -- sketch the five parts only in pencil (turn-and-talk)


 * Day 3:** Continue practicing re-telling across 5 fingers (beginning, middle, middle, middle, end) with Keats stories (turn-and-talk)

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 * Day 4:** Talk about how in the beginning of the story you find out the characters and the setting. For the re-telling, they //write// about the beginning, then sketch the rest of it.

Week Four:
Monday: The problem -- you find it out in the second part of the story -- write in steps 1 and 2.

Tuesday: Revise yesterday's retelling / practice it more

Wednesday: Solution -- add it to step 5 -- write steps 1, 2, and 5, but draw steps 3 and 4. Begin rubric with kids of reader responses that get a 3 and a 4.

Thursday: Fix up one retelling to get graded.