Monday, Sept. 21

Periods 1-5
Task or objective: Students will use reading strategies to comprehend grade-level text, specifically lesson 1 of the “Impact” book
Method(s) or strategies: In groups of three, students will, by drawing a color picture on a notecard they have been given, summarize the main idea of the paragraph they have been assigned. On the back of the notecard, students also will answer the essential question “What does it mean to be a professional by experience?”
Evaluation: The students will present their notecards. We also will discuss the essential question as a class
FCAT activity: Main idea

Task or objective: Students will become more fluent by attempting a reading probe (from the Jamestown fluency book used in class)
Method(s) or strategies: Students will pair and read a fluency passage. The first read is known as the cold, the second read is the whisper, the third read is led by the teacher, and the last read is the hot. By the end of the year, students should have improved their words-per-minute totals while also becoming more accurate.
Evaluation: Pairs grade each other depending on the number of words read in one minute, circling the mistakes for those words that have been mispronounced, dropped, etc.
FCAT activity:

Task or objective: Students will review important vocabulary words they will most likely see on the FCAT
Method(s) or strategies: Word wall review
Evaluation: Teacher will call on random students to tell him the definition of each of the words on the word wall
FCAT activity: