2nd Grade Reading Block

Unit 1 Week 3 Fighting the Fire

MONDAY: 8/29/11 Warm up: (vocabulary, phonics, pa) Phonics Worksheet 8 Morning Message: (vocab, fluency, comprehension) Write morning message on chart paper: Have you ever been camping? First you go into the forest and set up a tent. Then you build a nice camp fire. The flames will glow red hot and you can feel the heat. You can cook hot dogs on a stick and maybe eat marshmallows. After you eat, you can sit around the camp fire and tell scary stories. Finally you will crawl into your tent and fall asleep, safe and sound! y y Echo read the morning message. What happened in this little story? (sequence)

Phonics Time: (pa/phonics) Review long a and short a with Tucker. Look at morning message. y Underline short a words in red. y Circle long a words in blue Whats the difference between short a and long a words? MAGIC E show them wand and examples: Cap cape Tap tape Hat hate Man mane Sam same Rat rate Mat mate Give students 2 post it notes. One saying long a, the other saying short a. Stick them on their palms. Read words aloud to students on pg 71a &b. Tell students to raise the correct hand when they hear the long or short a sound. Word Wall Practice: (vocab, fluency) Read pg 72-73 as intro to words of the week. y Ask students to read the highlighted words. Write them on the board. Discuss words. Have each student make a sentence with the words. Assessment: (pa, phonics, vocab, comprehension) Do WBO 17 and 18 Game time;. (fluency, vocabulary, pa, phonics) Sight word memory (2 groups of 4 students)

2nd Grade Reading Block

Unit 1 Week 3 Fighting the Fire

Reading time: (vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, pa, phonics) y Go back to page 72-73. Talk about main ideas. Do main idea organizer together (pg 73A-B)

Reading book pg 74 Fighting the Fire y Preview/Predict y Echo read y Comp questions # 2, 3 y Do story map together y Do main idea organizer together (see pg 76/77) Extra time activity: (vocab, pa, phonics) Play Sparkle with weekly spelling list, sight words, and decodable words. ______________________________________________________________________ TUESDAY: 8/30/11 Warm up: (vocabulary, phonics, pa) Short a/Long a Worksheet Morning Message: (vocab, fluency, comprehension) Look at the morning message on chart paper: y Choral read the morning message. y Who was the main character? Setting? What happened in the beginning? Middle? End? Word Wall Practice: (vocab, fluency) Look at morning message. Have students help remember which words are the words of the week. Then make a green square around the words of the week. Do cloze reading of vocabulary words on chart paper (see pg 73h) Begin word study booklet (if time) Phonics Time: (pa/phonics) Review sound and Tucker sign for short a and long a Work with magic e again. Use pg 73F as guide. Check Warm Up Phonics worksheet together in class (trade and grade!) Assessment: (pa, phonics, vocab, comprehension) Do 15 pt worksheet Reading time: (vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, pa, phonics) 3 Ring Circus y Read with CD and Firefighter Response Worksheet:

2nd Grade Reading Block

Unit 1 Week 3 Fighting the Fire

Read with partner and do sequence strips:

Read with teacher with focus on fluency & punctuation:

Game time;. (fluency, vocabulary, pa, phonics) One group do sight word pancakes, the other group do Bean Words Extra time activity: (vocab, pa, phonics) Play Around the World with sight word cards or decodable cards. ______________________________________________________________________ WEDNESDAY: 8/31/11 Warm up: (vocabulary, phonics, pa) Photograph response Work on response worksheets from Tuesday. Morning Message: (vocab, fluency, comprehension) Look at the morning message on chart paper: y Choral read the morning message. y Review: Who was the main character? Setting? What happened in the beginning? Middle? End? y Draw a picture of what happened in the story. Word Wall Practice: (vocab, fluency) Look at morning message. Review words in green squares. Continue and finish word study booklet Phonics Time: (pa/phonics) Review sound and Tucker sign for long a, short a Long A, Short A word sort whole group Long a Short a word short individual ws Reading time: (vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, pa, phonics) 3 Ring Circus y Read with CD and Firefighter Response Worksheet: Read with partner and sequence strips:

Read with teacher with focus on fluency & punctuation

2nd Grade Reading Block

Unit 1 Week 3 Fighting the Fire

Game time;. (fluency, vocabulary, pa, phonics) Bang! 2 groups of 4 Extra time activity: (vocab, pa, phonics) Play Sparkle with weekly spelling list, sight words, and decodable words. ____________________________________________________________________ THURSDAY 9/1/11 Warm up: (vocabulary, phonics, pa) Phonics Worksheet 7/9 Work on response worksheets from previous days Morning Message: (vocab, fluency, comprehension) Look at the morning message on chart paper: y Choral read the morning message. y Who was the main character? Setting? What happened in the beginning? Middle? End? Word Wall Practice: (vocab, fluency) Look at morning message. Review the words with green squares around them. Use page 81h orally WBB pg 18 Phonics Time: (pa/phonics) Review sound and Tucker sign for long a, short a Check over phonic warm up worksheets together (trade and grade!) Letter tiles to spell long a & short a words. Also word wall, spelling and decodable. Reading time: (vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, pa, phonics) 3 Ring Circus y Read with CD and Firefighter Response Worksheet: Read with partner and sequence strips:

Read with teacher with focus on fluency & punctuation

Game time;. (fluency, vocabulary, pa, phonics) One group do sight word pancakes, the other group do Bean Words Extra time activity: (vocab, pa, phonics) Play Around the World with sight word cards or decodable cards. ______________________________________________________________________

2nd Grade Reading Block

Unit 1 Week 3 Fighting the Fire

FRIDAY 9/2/11 (1 hour only, additional 30 minutes will be spent in homeroom.) Warm up: (vocabulary, phonics, pa) Word puzzle Work on response worksheets from previous days Phonics Time: (pa/phonics) Review sound and Tucker sign for short a, long a, magic e ASSESSMENT: Selection Test Reading time: (vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, pa, phonics) Take Home Story Read Aloud y Do not tell them the title. After you read it, they make book cover and create their own title. Game time;. (fluency, vocabulary, pa, phonics) Play Trash Ball with sight words and decodable word cards.