ENSURING ACCESS YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL TODAY is that students will understand that it’s critical to read all parts of the page—the text features as well as the paragraphs—in order to deepen their understanding of what a text teaches.
z Always, small groups provide you with a way to teach responsively. If you have some students who need help reading with more fluency, lead small groups to support this, drawing on the fluency small group progression in Bend III. Echo and repeated reading will help. If you have some readers who need reminders to apply their phonics skills as they read, lead small groups to support that. Help students slide across unfamiliar and multisyllabic words, reading them part by part. Encourage them to keep phonics charts out as they read. z During the minilesson, consider modeling how you iden- tify and label text features (e.g., heading, subheading, caption, diagram) while annotating the text. You could
also do this in small groups if additional support is needed. z One of the easiest and most helpful ways to lead a small group for students who are multilingual and for those needing additional support with their text selections is to gather a group and engage in a small-group shared reading. You can do this by reading the start of a text that you intend for students to continue reading in partner- ships or alone. Be sure that when leading shared reading, you don’t make your voice so dominant that you are actu- ally doing all the work and students are just echoing you (although that can also be helpful.)
Day at a Glance: Read Aloud, Word Study, and Vocabulary Let’s Gather: Read-Aloud and Close Reading 15–20 min.
Compare and Contrast Key Excerpts from Plants in Different Habitats in Partnerships You’ll lead students in partner discussions about sections of the text by rereading earlier passages from Plants in Different Habitats . Students will hold copies of two different sections of text and compare and contrast those sections while developing deeper ideas with their partners. Read a Decodable Text with Consonant -le You’ll demonstrate how you read sentences with consonant -le syllables, and you’ll coach students as they read a short decodable passage that contains words with consonant -le syllables. Sort Content Words into Categories, and Generate Related Vocabulary You’ll coach groups to sort new vocabulary words, discussing how words fit together. Then, you’ll invite students to add additional, related words to their sorts.
Word Study 15 min.
Vocabulary 5 min.
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Session 5 • Learn From the Text and the Text Features
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