Week+of+Feb.+2,+2009+regular+group

Monday:

Learning Target: I can help my buddy when she gets stuck on a word. I can write questions for a character. Buddy Reading: __Frog and Toad Together__, Chapter 2: The Garden [|TheGarden.doc]

Tuesday:

Learning Target: I can write open-ended questions for a character.

Buddy Reading: __Frog and Toad Together__, Chapter 3: Cookies Sort questions into open and closed. Make a list of question words that start each kind of question. Write open-ended questions for either Frog or Toad. [|Cookies.doc]

Wednesday:

Students answer someone else's questions from the day before. Buddy Reading: __Frog and Toad Together__, Chapter 4: Giants and Dragons [|dragonsgiants.doc] [|frogandtoadquestions.doc]

Thursday:

Begin lessons on finding evidence in the text. Read Chapter 5: The dream. [|dream.doc] beginning work: [|frogtoadcharacters.doc] evidence worksheet: [|frogtoadevidence1.doc]

Future ideas:

Frog and Toad's characters: how are they different? Different groups read different Frog and Toad books and share with others form opinions about texts: teacher makes a statement (Toad is dumb) and students discuss. Learn to write a paragraph?

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