For alternate Leveled Reader lesson plans that teach
Compare and Contrast, Predict, and Lesson Vocabulary, see pp. LR1–LR9.
Suki’s Kimono Group Time
Retell Leveled Reader Dressed for School Success
Have students use section headings as a guide to summarize important facts they learned from each section of the book. Prompt as needed.
What was this selection mostly about?
What was the author trying to teach us?
for Fluency
MODEL Read aloud p. 3 of the Leveled Reader Dressed for School Success, emphasizing accuracy, appropriate pace, rate, and expression. Have students note that you read all the words at the appropriate pace and rate. Point out that your voice changed at question marks. Discuss how a selection may be misunderstood if the words and sentences aren’t read correctly with accuracy, appropriate pace, rate, and expression.
PRACTICE Have students reread passages from Dressed for School Success 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 are assessed in Week 3.
Revisit Leveled Reader The Japanese Language
RETELL Have students retell what they learned from the Leveled Reader The Japanese Language.
NOW TRY THIS Have students complete and present their kanji character charts. Discuss what they learned about kanji by copying these characters.
for Fluency
PRACTICE Have students reread passages from the Leveled Reader The Japanese Language 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 or four times. Assess the fluency of students in this group using p. 169a.
Have students use section
for Fluency
RETELL Have students retell what they learned from the Leveled Reader The Japanese Language.
for Fluency
Compare and Contrast,