Wednesday

Lesson 15, Day 3

Objective: To listen and respond appropriately to

oral communication.

Question of the Day:

Do you like to read books? Why?

On my signal, you will turn and talk to your partner to complete this stem:

I like reading books because __________.

Objective: To identify characteristics of concrete poetry.

Read AloudRead Aloud

“Books to the Ceiling”

*Why do you think the poet said “I’ll have a long beard by the time I read

them?”

Big Book of Rhymes and Poems

Objective: To read high frequency words.

Word Wallaboutbooksfamilynamepeopleread work

writing

Objective: To blend phonemes into words.

Phonemic

Awareness

Phoneme

Deletion

Word Buildingwhi z

Change wh to qu. What word did you make? quizChange z to ck. What word did you make?

quick

Change qu to th. What word did you make?

thick

thenChange th to wh. What word did you make?

when

Word Building

quackChange qu to wh. What word did you make? whack

whip

Change wh to qu. What word did you make?

quip

Objective: To build and blend words with /kw/ qu and other known letter-sounds.

Digraphs /kw/qu, /hw/wh, /th/ th

Quinn is my cat.

He is as quick as a wink!

He kicks his legs. Bump! Thud!

What upset the bucket?

Quinn did it!

Whiz! Which way did Quinn go?

There he is on my thick quilt.

This Week’s Spelling Words

quitquickquiz

whizwhichwhen

armpart

houseput

Objective: To blend sounds into words.

High Frequency Wordsaboutbooksfamilynamepeoplereadwork

writing

Objective- To read high-frequency words.

Sequence Objective: To ask questions and observe sequenceas a strategy for comprehension.

Events in a story happen in a sequence that makes sense. Think about the order of events in “The Best Apple Crisp in the World.”

*Can you eat apple crisp before you make it?

Listen to the directions and tell whether they are in a sequence that makes sense. If not, help make sense of the directions.

Put on your shoes, put on your socks, go outside.

Put cereal in a bowl, eat, pour in some milk.

Objective: To develop robust vocabulary by discussing ideas

and situations.

Robust Vocabulary

•accomplishment

•admire

•ambition

accomplishment

If you have had an accomplishment, you have worked hard to get something done.

accomplishment

A great accomplishment for Tomas Rivera was writing his first book.

Running a mile was an accomplishment for me.

Tell about one of your accomplishments.

admire

If you admire someone, you think that person is very special because of the things he or she does.

admire

When Tomas grew up, many people began to admire his books.

I admire Dr. Seuss because he wrote funny, clever rhymes.

Name a person you admire and tell

why.

ambition

If you have an ambition, you want to do something very much.

ambition

Tomas’s ambition was to tell stories like Grandpa.

My ambition is to learn to play a musical instrument.

Do you have this ambition too?

Using I and MeSam and I saw a squirrel.It was looking at Sam and me.

*Remember I is used in the naming part of the sentence and me is used in the telling part.

Todd and ____ went to the park.My dad went with Todd and _____.

Objective: To use I in the subject of the sentence and me in thepredicate; to use knowledge of basic rules of capitalization.

Objective: To compose coherent sentences in a personal narrative; to generate ideas before writing on assigned tasks; to select a focus for writing.

Personal Narrative

I was born in Texas. My family and I went from farm to farm picking crops. I helped pick crops all day. It was hard work. At night, I had fun with my grandpa and his stories.

Objective: To compose coherent sentences in a personal narrative; to generate ideas before writing on assigned tasks; to select a focus for writing.

Personal Narrative

A personal narrative tells about something that has happened in a person’s life.

It has a beginning, a middle, and an ending.

It has words like I and me.

Personal NarrativeWrite about one of your ambitions. Tellwhat you would like to do or be when yougrow up.

WILF:• Check to see if you told about something

that happened to you.• Use I and me in your writing.• Use capital letters where needed and

punctuation.

Objective: To compose coherent sentences in a personal narrative; to generate ideas before writing on assigned tasks; to select a focus for writing.