For alternate Leveled Reader lesson plans that teach
Realism and Fantasy, Monitor and Fix Up, and Lesson Vocabulary, see pp. LR28–LR36.
If You Made a Million Group Time
Retell Leveled Reader Earning Money My Own Way
Have students use illustrations as a guide to summarize the story. Prompt as needed.
Tell me what this story is about in a few sentences.
What is Andy like?
How does this story remind you of other stories?
for Fluency
MODEL Read aloud p. 4 of the Leveled Reader Earning Money My Own Way, showing how expressive reading and intonation help you tell an interesting and clear story. Help students recognize a question’s tone and an exclamation’s strong feeling. Discuss how expressive reading and intonation help readers understand the character’s feelings.
PRACTICE Have students reread passages from Earning Money My Own Way with a partner or individually. For optimal fluency, they should reread three or four times. As students read, monitor fluency and provide corrective feedback. Students in this group were assessed in Week 3.
Revisit Leveled Reader Mr. Grim and the Goose That Laid Golden Eggs
RETELL Have students retell the story in the Leveled Reader Mr. Grim and the Goose That Laid Golden Eggs.
LIBRARY RESEARCH Have students complete their mini-posters about how investors can carefully invest money. Students can present oral reports, using the posters, to you and to other students, reflecting facts and ideas they have learned from school or public library resources and from parents or other relatives.
for Fluency
PRACTICE Have students reread passages from the Leveled Reader Mr. Grim and the Goose That Laid Golden Eggs with a partner or individually. As students read, monitor fluency and provide corrective feedback. If students read fluently on the first reading, they do not need to reread three to four times. Students in this group were assessed in Week 1.
Have students use illustrations
for Fluency
RETELL Have students retell the story in the Leveled Reader
for Fluency
Realism and Fantasy,