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Level 5 Sample Lesson – Day 2
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| Before Viewing | Review Book and Reader Characteristics for Levels 3-5, before viewing the teacher commentary clip. | Sequencing Books, Levels 4-5 (3:50) | ||
| Familiar Rereading (1:30) | Develop fluency Practice strategies independently Assess student strengths and needs |
Each child reads a previously-read book independently | What is accomplished by beginning the lesson with familiar rereading? |
Familiar Rereading (1:15) |
| Interactive Writing: Creating the Story (2:30) | Practice and support behaviors used while writing (sentence formation, sound/letter associations, concepts of print, punctuation, letter formation and spacing, high-frequency words); maximize reading/writing reciprocity | Teacher and students discuss the story or event they want to write about, and co-create the words of the story. | Why is the time for children to talk about the story so important, both in partners and with teacher guidance as a whole group? | Creating the Story (2:20) |
| Interactive Writing: Sharing the Pen (Part 1) (3:05) | Students “share the pen” to contribute letters, words, or punctuation they are ready to learn, and the teacher writes more advanced parts of the sentence. The teacher demonstrates strategies for writing words as needed, including quick recall of high frequency words, using the word wall, getting to new words through analogies to known words, using letter boxes to hear sounds, etc. | Jot down prompts the teacher uses with students. What strategies and skills is she reinforcing? | ||
| Interactive Writing: Sharing the Pen (Part 2) (4:30) | Note the prompts the teacher uses with students. What strategies and skills is she reinforcing? | Interactive Writing: Sharing the Pen (3:13) | ||
| Interactive Writing: Concluding the Lesson (2:18) | Students reread the story, and the teacher may review various strategies used in the lesson, such as identifying specific high frequency words or making new words by analogy. The teacher also reinforces how the same strategies are used in reading. | What does the teacher accomplish in the final segment of the writing lesson? | ||
| Complete Lesson (14:00) |