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Daily Plan AT A GLANCE
Reading
Whole Group
  • Oral Language
  • Phonics
  • Comprehension/Vocabulary
Group Time
Differentiated
Instruction
Meet with small groups to
provide:
  • Skill Support
  • Reading Support
  • Fluency Practice
Tops and Bottoms
The Hare and the Tortoise
Growing Vegetables
Our Garden
The Magic of Coyote
Decodable Reader 9: His Biggest Fan
Read
This week's lessons for daily group time can be found
behind the Differentiated Instruction (DI) tab on
pp. DI•32–DI•41.
Whole Group
  • Fluency
Language Arts
  • Grammar
  • Writing
  • Spelling
  • Research/Inquiry
  • Speaking/Listening/Viewing
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Street for Tier III intensive
reading intervention.
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Connie Juel
For activities to build oral vocabulary, see the article "Walking with Rosie" by Scott Foresman author Connie Juel and others.
TEACHER TALK
An affix is a prefix, suffix, or inflected ending attached to a base word.
Be sure to schedule
time for students
to work on the
unit inquiry project,
"A Book of Solutions." This week
students combine information to
develop answers to their inquiry questions.
Group-Time Survival Guide
Group-Time Survival Guide
  p. 26, Weekly Contract
Looking Ahead
Small Group Plan for Differentiated Instruction
1
2
3
Begin with whole class skill and strategy instruction.
Meet with small groups to provide differentiated instruction.
Gather the whole class back together for fluency and language arts.
DAY 1
Independent Activities
Advanced
Strategic Intervention
On-Level
Independent Activities
 While you meet with small groups, have the rest of the class…
  • Visit the Reading/Library Center
  • Listen to the Background Building Audio
  • Finish Write to Read, p. 224
  • Complete Practice Book 3.1 pp. 83–84
  • Visit Cross-Curricular Centers
Teacher-Led
Page DI•33
  • Develop Concept Vocabulary
  • Read On-Level Reader Our Garden
Teacher-Led
Page DI•32
  • Preteach Consonant Blends
  • Read Decodable Reader 9
  • Read Below-Level
    Reader Growing Vegetables
Teacher-Led
Page DI•33
  • Read Advanced Reader The Magic of Coyote
  • Independent Extension Activity
DAY 2
Independent Activities
Advanced
Strategic Intervention
On-Level
Independent Activities
 While you meet with small groups, have the rest of the class…
  • Visit the Reading/Library Center
  • Listen to the AudioText for Tops and Bottoms
  • Finish Words to Write, p. 227
  • Complete Practice Book 3.1
    pp. 85–86, 89
  • Write in their Strategy Response Logs, pp. 228, 237
  • Visit Cross-Curricular Centers
  • Work on inquiry projects
Teacher-Led
Pages 230–237
  • Read Tops and Bottoms
Teacher-Led
Page DI•34
  • Practice Lesson Vocabulary
  • Read Multisyllabic Words
  • Read or Listen to Tops and Bottoms
Teacher-Led
Page DI•35
  • Extend Vocabulary
  • Read Tops and Bottoms
DAY 3
Independent Activities
Advanced
Strategic Intervention
On-Level
Independent Activities
 While you meet with small groups, have the rest of the class…
  • Visit the Reading/Library Center
  • Listen to the AudioText for Tops and Bottoms
  • Write in their Strategy Response Logs, p. 244
  • Finish Look Back and Write,
    p. 246
  • Complete Practice Book 3.1
    p. 87
  • Visit Cross-Curricular Centers
  • Work on inquiry projects
Teacher-Led
Pages 238–245
  • Read Tops and Bottoms
Teacher-Led
Page DI•36
  • Practice Author's Purpose and Predict
  • Read or Listen to Tops and Bottoms
Teacher-Led
Page DI•37
  • Extend Author's Purpose and Predict
  • Read Tops and Bottoms
DAY 4
Independent Activities
Advanced
Strategic Intervention
On-Level
Independent Activities
 While you meet with small groups, have the rest of the class…
  • Visit the Reading/Library Center
  • Listen to the AudioText for "The Hare and the Tortoise"
  • Visit the Writing and Vocabulary Centers
  • Finish Writing Across Texts,
    p. 249
  • Visit Cross-Curricular Centers
  • Work on inquiry projects
Teacher-Led
Pages 248–249
  • Read "The Hare and the Tortoise"
Teacher-Led
Page DI•38
  • Practice Retelling
  • Read or Listen to "The Hare and the Tortoise"
Teacher-Led
Page DI•39
  • Read "The Hare and the Tortoise"
  • Genre Study
DAY 5
Independent Activities
Advanced
Strategic Intervention
On-Level
Independent Activities
 While you meet with small groups, have the rest of the class…
  • Visit the Reading/Library Center
  • Complete Practice Book 3.1
    pp. 88, 90
  • Visit Cross-Curricular Centers
  • Work on inquiry projects
Teacher-Led
Page DI•41
  • Reread Leveled Reader Our Garden
  • Retell Our Garden
Teacher-Led
Page DI•40
  • Reread Leveled Reader Growing Vegetables
  • Retell Growing Vegetables
Teacher-Led
Page DI•41
  • Reread Leveled
    Reader The Magic
    of Coyote
  • Share Extension Activity
Grouping Place English language learners in the groups that correspond to their reading abilities in English.
Use the appropriate Leveled Reader or other text at students' instructional level.
Tip Send home the appropriate Multilingual Summary of the
main selection on Day 1.
ELL