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Reading Foundations Skills Block
■ Display Enlarged Engagement Text: “New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary.”
■ Introduce the read-aloud of the Engagement Text: “New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary”:
1. Teacher says: “Listen carefully as I read today’s edition of the Sunnyside Gazette: ‘New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary.’ After I am nished reading, you will retell the story to a partner and answer some questions about it.”
2. Teacher reads text without interruption, pointing out the accompanying illustrations.
3. Students turn to an elbow partner and retell the events in the Sunnyside Gazette article: “New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary.”
Meeting Students’ Needs
■ For udents who need extra support, including ELLs: Consider providing picture cards of nouns in “New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary” to support comprehension.
■ Consider providing sentence frames or transition words and phrases to facilitate organization of retelling. Example:
— “Fir , _____. After that, _____. Next, _____. Then, _____. Finally, _____.”
B. Comprehension Conversation (optional)
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Teacher asks the following suggested comprehension questions:
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Recall:
“What happened today according to the article?” (It was the rst day of school.)
“What did James say excited him most about school?” (He read all the books from his summer booklist and is ready to read chapter books this year.)
Vocabulary and Language:
“In the article, it said, ‘When asked what excited him most, James replied...’ What must ‘replied’ mean?” (answered)
“What does it mean to be ‘enthusiastic’?” (very excited)
“If ‘enthusiastic’ means ‘very excited,’ what do you think it meant when the article said that Patricia said something ‘enthusiastically’?” (She said it in an excited way.)
Digging Deeper: Extension Questions:
“At the end of the text, Principal Pack says he is looking forward to meeting the wonderful students and families, and he says, ‘Together, we will work to make Sunnyside Elementary the best school it can be.’ Whom does he mean when he says ‘we’?” (teachers, families, students, all of the people involved in the school)
“What things can students, parents, and teachers do to make a school the best it can be?” (Answers will vary. Examples: work hard, help with homework, volunteer, make sure we have the materials we need.)
“How do we do that here in our school?” (Answers will vary.)
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