1 Administrator’s Academy January 18, 2006

2 Class Description ELD 1- 1 ELD 2- 9 ELD 3- 2 ELD 4- 0 ELD 5 – 1 IFEP- 3 RFEP- 2

3 Framing the Context: The primary goal of the first read is for students to make meaning from text. The secondary goal is for students to learn how to become metacognitive when reading. This is done through Explicit Strategy Instruction.

4 Core Components Building Background Preview and Prepare Selection Vocabulary Reading Recommendations Using Reading Strategies Discussing Strategy Use Discussing the Selection

5 Second Grade Unit 4 – FOSSILS Title: The Dinosaur Who Lived In My Backyard. Genre: Fantasy

6 The Big Ideas For The Unit Fossils offer a gateway to the past. Fossils help us learn about life on earth long ago.

7 Concept/ Question Board In the previous selection, we learned: what fossils are how fossils help us to understand what life was like long ago. how fossils are formed

8 Clues and Problems Clues Title: The Dinosaur Who Lived In My Backyard Author: B.G. Hennessy Illustrated: Susan Davis Genre: Fantasy Fantasy: Dinosaur in today’s world Dinosaur playing hide-and- seek Reality: Hatched from an egg Feet were big Problems Dinosaur next to the car/bus Dinosaur playing with children. Vegetables One hundred pounds

9 Selection Vocabulary The purpose of the selection vocabulary is to teach students a strategy for figuring out the meaning of unknown words. Word structure Apposition Context Clues Cognates

10 Explicit Strategy Instruction Students make meaning from the text. Students become metacognitive with strategy use. This is done through a modeled read and think-aloud.

11 Using Reading Strategies Pre-identifies the strategies to be modeled. The teacher names, defines, and models the strategies to be used and tells why good readers use these strategies. Strategies are posted on the board for teacher to reference during the instructional period.

12 Focus Questions 1. What new facts are we learning about dinosaurs from this story? 2. *How do we know this information?

13 Comprehension Strategies Asking Questions Figuring out what part of the story you don’t understand. Visualizing Imagining what is happening in the story.

14 Focus Questions 1. What new facts are we learning about dinosaurs from this story? 2. *How do we know this information?

15 Discussing Strategy Use Is an opportunity for students to discuss how the strategies helped to make meaning from the text.

16 Clues and Problems Clues Title: The Dinosaur Who Lived In My Backyard Author: B.G. Hennessy Illustrated: Susan Davis Genre: Fantasy Fantasy: Dinosaur in today’s world Dinosaur playing hide-and- seek Reality: Hatched from an egg Feet were big Problems Dinosaur next to the car/bus Dinosaur playing with children. Vegetables (word) One hundred pounds (phrase)

17 Discussing the Selection Check for understanding through whole group discussion Make new learning public

18 Focus Questions 1. What new facts did we learn about dinosaurs from this story? 2. *How do we know this information? Answer on Concept/Question Board