Lesson Overview: Students and Plan

I have selected 3 students, one who is reading below grade level, one who is reading at grade level, and one who is reading above grade level. The students selected are not English language learners and do not qualify for special services such as speech. However, the students I have selected have varying abilities which makes our classroom so diverse and special. Each student has their "just right" leveled book. The students chosen range from "F" (High proficiency), C, and AA (Low proficiency). The topics selected are prediction and word recognition. The rationales for each are listen below along with a brief overview of each lesson.

Word Recognition
Rationale: Students often go to the library to select books. I have noticed that

many of them are coming back with books they need help reading. Thus,

when they have time to look at their library books they are often off

task. When approached about the situation, they explain that it is

because they cannot read it. Therefore, it is crucial the students

learn how to take a picture walk through the book so they can better

develop their reading and predicting skills.

Lesson Overview: Students will be able to predict what is going to happen in a story by

taking a picture walk and vocally expressing what comes next during the

reading.

Prediction: 

Rationale: One of the ongoing themes in the classroom is word recognition. Words

are introduced by using a letter, sound, blend technique. These skills

need to be reinforced because they will be entering first grade in a

few short months where reading strategies are crucial to keep them up

to speed and assist in comprehension.

Lesson Overview: Students will be able to recognize high frequency words by sight during

a group reading by highlighting it in their personal copy.