Teacher: Harriet Cooper
Class: Reading Class
Date: June 04, 2012 - June 08, 2012

Goals and Objectives

Students will continue to work on short paragraph reading with related activities. Students will continue to spend at least 10 minutes reading silently and completing a reading log. Students will review the “Vowel Circle” and syllable rules. Students will continue to write sentences. Students will listen and follow along while teacher reads Golden Compass aloud; students will take notes. .
1.0 Students use their knowledge of word origins, letter-word relationships and context clues to determine meaning, sight words and new vocabulary.
2.0 Students will read grade-appropriate text to determine main ideas, arguments, and perspective. Students will use higher order thinking skills to make predictions and understand abstract concepts.
****This lesson plan is subject to change due to changes in classroom instruction.

ESLRs

This Reading class will help ensure students who are looking to master academic content and apply what they have mastered to real-life situations. We want our students to understand and execute tasks appropriately and use their time wisely. This class will guide students toward confidence in reading and oral expression to help resolve conflicts verbally. Our goal is to help develop responsible citizens who respect people, property and contribute freely to the community.
Day Classwork Homework
Monday Activity: Students will read silently for 10 minutes and take notes
Activity: Students will continue to read from the “Language Program”
Activity: Review past spelling, vocabulary words and prefixes from the reading and prior quizzes
Activity: Students will review the syllable rules
Students will use 8 of the spelling words in a sentence

Tuesday Activity: Students will read silently for 10 minutes and take notes
Activity: Students will review the Vowel Circle
Activity: Collect spelling and vocabulary words from the reading
Using the vowel circle highlight those vowels that are in the spelling words

Wednesday Activity: Continue reviewing spelling words, vocabulary and prefixes for final
Activity: Put spelling words in sentences to review

Come up with 1 synonym for each of 5 different vocabulary words
Thursday Activity: Read silently for 10 minutes and take notes
Activity: Continue reading aloud Golden Compass/take Notes
Activity: Review spelling and vocabulary words for quiz tomorrow
Combine spelling and vocabulary words in sentences

Friday Activity: Spelling and vocabulary quiz
Activity: Read silently and take notes
Read 20 minutes at home every night

Long-term assignments and projects

My long term goal for this class is to have each student feel confident to read with fluency, intonation and accuracy at their independent level. Each student will increase their sight vocabulary and improve their comprehension as well as improve their essay writing using all the components of the writing process.