Scott Foresman Reading Street

For alternate Leveled Reader lesson plans that teach

Main Idea and Details, Monitor and Fix Up,
and Lesson Vocabulary, see pp. LR19–LR27.

Prudy’s Problem
Group Time

Retell Leveled Reader
Katy’s Last-Minute Book
Report

Have students use the illustrations as a guide to retell Katy’s Last-Minute Book Report. Prompt as needed.

What is Katy like?
What is the problem in this story?
Has anything like this ever happened to you?

for Fluency

MODEL Read pp. 3–4 of the Leveled Reader
Katy’s Last-Minute Book Report, emphasizing
appropriate expression and intonation. Have
students note how your voice changes to convey expression and tone. Discuss how reading with appropriate expression and intonation makes the story and characters more understandable and enjoyable.

PRACTICE Have individuals reread passages from Katy’s Last-Minute Book Report with a partner or individually. For optimal fluency, they should reread three or four times. As students read, monitor fluency and provide corrective feedback. Assess the fluency of students in this group using p. 223a.

Revisit Leveled Reader
Collecting Dreams

RETELL Have students retell the Leveled Reader Collecting Dreams.

INDEPENDENT EXTENSION
ACTIVITY Have students complete the posters about toy collecting that they have been working on throughout the week. You may wish to review their sources and see whether they need additional resources. Have them share their posters.

for Fluency

PRACTICE Have students reread passages
from the Leveled Reader Collecting Dreams 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.