Read Aloud Lesson Plan
Grade: 4th
Subject: Reading
Objective: The student will be able to participate in an interactive reading using comprehension and vocabulary strategies followed by a writing activity.
TEKS: b.18.a: create brief compositions that: (i) establish a central idea in a topic sentence; (ii) include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; and (iii) contain a concluding statement.
b.20.a: use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: (i) verbs (irregular verbs); (ii) nouns (singular/plural, common/proper); (iii) adjectives (e.g., descriptive, including purpose: sleeping bag, frying pan) and their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., fast, faster, fastest).
b.21.a: write legibly by selecting cursive script or manuscript printing as appropriate.
Title: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
Before Reading:
Connecting Activity/Question:
- Remember when we wrote in our journals about the word “nostalgia”? (Review definition: a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former time or place.) Who can tell me what they wrote in their journals?
Genre Set –Up & Bridging Conversation:
- This is a story about a little boy named Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge who helps his friend, Miss Nancy, find her memory. How could you help someone remember something?
Vocabulary
Word |
Contextualize Word In the story.... |
Definition |
Example beyond story |
Bridge to story |
Organ
|
He liked Mrs. Jordan who played the organ. |
a musical instrument consisting of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air. |
There is a huge organ at my church. |
|
Cricket |
He played with Mr. Tippett who was crazy about cricket. |
a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players |
I’ve never played the game cricket. |
|
Porridge
|
She had laughed with a mouth full of porridge. |
a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk. |
My grandmother makes me porridge when I visit. |
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Comprehension Strategy (Cover of Book):
- Make a Connection
- Make Inferences
- Prediction
- Self-Monitor
- Prior Knowledge
- Questioning
- Identify Important Information
- Visualize
- Synthesis
Comprehension Strategy |
Language |
Prior Knowledge
Make a Connection
Visualize
Prediction |
Let’s look at the cover. What’s on the cover of our story? What do you think this story is going to be about? What do you think the relationship is between the boy and the lady? Discuss… Does the cover illustration remind you of certain people or a time in your life? Picture in your head that certain person or time in your life. Does anyone want to share? As a good reader, I have lots of wonderings in my head before I read, and right now I’m wondering why there is a hen under the lady’s chair…. Let’s read & find out! |
During Reading:
Comprehension Strategy:
- Make a Connection
- Make Inferences
- Prediction
- Self-Monitor
- Prior Knowledge
- Questioning
- Identify Important Information
- Visualize
- Synthesis
Page # |
Comprehension or Vocabulary |
Language |
3
|
Visualize |
Can you visualize Mr. Hosking telling Wilfrid Gordon scary stories? |
3
|
Vocabulary |
There is the word organ again. Look at the picture and listen as I read it again, what do you think organ means? |
4
|
Vocabulary |
There is another vocabulary word. What do you think cricket is? Is the author talking about the insect? |
15 |
Prediction
|
After Wilfrid Gordon asked everyone what a memory was, what types of memories do you think he’ll try to help Miss Nancy find? |
21
22 |
Prediction
Self-Monitor |
Now that Wilfrid Gordon has collected the different items, do you think they will help Miss Nancy with her memory? Why or why not? Were you right? Does Miss Nancy remember anything? |
25
|
Vocabulary
|
We talked about what porridge is; does anyone remember what it is? |
Comprehension Strategy:
- Make a Connection
- Make Inferences
- Prediction
- Self-Monitor
- Prior Knowledge
- Questioning
- Identify Important Information
- Visualize
- Synthesis
Comprehension Strategy |
Language |
Identify Important Information |
What object caused Miss Nancy to remember funny, sad, precious, warm and old memories? |
Vocabulary Activity and/or Assessment Activity:
- Have students draw on a sheet of white paper something that resembles a funny, precious, warm and old memory (sad is optional). Along with each picture, the student should write 3-5 complete sentences explaining what the object is and what it reminds them of. If time permits, the students may share their work.
Planned Modifications:
- Students draw pictures and tell teacher about pictures instead of writing sentences.