Week+of+May+17,+2009

=Wednesday, May 20, 2009 = =Reader's Workshop=
 * Read the Text Talk book __Wolf__
 * Have students read Invitation and then finish the sheet below.
 * [|Invitation.doc]

=Thursday, May 21, 2009 = =Reader's Workshop=
 * Do the Text Talk exercises for the words from the book __Wolf__!
 * Re-read the poem "Invitation"
 * Have students do more directed work around this poem - visualizing it line by line! The main question on this sheet asks what the author's message is. This lesson is repetitive from the previous one, but this lesson is more drawn out. You could skip the lesson from the previous day if you feel like this is too much.
 * [|InvitationVisualize.doc]
 * Visualize the poem line by lineThis would be a great poem to memorize. Start working on this this week and talk to students about enunciating. Create some body movements for the poem.
 * Students can finish the work from yesterday
 * Debrief: Re-read the poem "Invitation"
 * Ask kids what they visualized for each line and what they thought the author's message was
 * Preform the poem and add body movements to the poem
 * Tell students you want them to memorize the poem


 * A Note About Reading Groups: ** This week I am going to finish my ORFs with all students during this time. Starting Monday Keshia is going to do advanced work with 11 students. They will be reading the book __My Name is Maria Isabel__ by Alma Flor Ada. They will be doing Literature Circle type of work with Keshia. I can plan this for both classes if the Bumblebees would like to do the same thing. For the students who are not reading on grade level I will be doing something slightly different. I will take my L students first. We will have a Guided Reading group and they will have applied work to take back to their seats. If they finish they will have the poetry work that we went over during the mini-lesson to do. The K group will start Reader's Workshop with a listening center book and then they will do applied work that has to do with the listening center. After they will come meet me for a Guided Reading. I will use the Listening Center book for their Guided Reading group. I will tape myself reading the chapters of the books they'll be reading. I will still create the poetry work that students can do - but they will do that work when they finish up with their reading work.

=Friday, May 22, 2009 = =Reader's Workshop=
 * Do the second part of the Text Talk exercises for the words from the book __Wolf!__

=Thoughts About the Week of May 26, 2009 =
 * Do a poetry study on Eloise Greenfield
 * Do a poetry study on Shel Silverstein the first week of June
 * Students will read a lot of poems by these poets and they will learn about these poets
 * Also - students will be exclusively writing poetry next week during writing time. If students ever finish their work in Reader's Workshop early then they can go into their writing to do Poetry writing.