'On the ball' is a historical fiction novel about a boy playing baseball. Students will practice decoding the words and understanding what they have read. They will also build hard, sport, yard, storm, porch with magnetic letters.
'On the ball' is a historical fiction novel about a boy playing baseball. Students will practice decoding the words and understanding what they have read. They will also build hard, sport, yard, storm, porch with magnetic letters.
'On the ball' is a historical fiction novel about a boy playing baseball. Students will practice decoding the words and understanding what they have read. They will also build hard, sport, yard, storm, porch with magnetic letters.
Day 1 (20 minutes): 5 minutes Hand students the book: Essential Question: How can one person change the way you think? Title: On the Ball Look at Cover: Picture of boy playing baseball. Another person playing baseball in a small illustration Students will make a prediction based on these three things. 2 minutes Review of Genre and Skills for this week: Genre: Historical Fiction Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect Vocabulary Skill: Idiom will not get to this in text but I will go over this objective 2 minutes Table of Contents: Read through chapter titles. Students will make an additional prediction now that they know the chapter titles. 1 minute Build Background Knowledge: Open up to page 2. Chapter 1 is titled Baseball Tryouts What does it mean to tryout for something? 3 minutes Vocabulary: There are some important words that you need to know and understand before you begin reading. (Find, define, talk about) Nervous Separate Attack Temporary 7 minutes Reading: We will read pages 2 and 3 today. I let students read softly to themselves as I go around and check decoding, along with simple questions about the text. For example: Who are the main characters? (James and Bella)
How is James feeling? (unhappy, sad, not happy)
Day 2 (20 minutes):
3 minutes: Review what was learned yesterday. Genre, Essential Question, Skill, Characters, Important information we learned while reading. 15 minutes: Today we will read pages 4, 5, and 6. Not only will we practice decoding the words, but we will also need to understand what we have read. I let students read softly to themselves as I go around and check decoding, along with simple questions about the text. Example Questions: Who is Jackie Robinson? Who is Darnel Fenton? Would you want to be friends with Darnel Fenton? Day 3 (20 minutes) 1 minute: Model Spelling objective This week: R-controlled vowels with a and o. ar = star, or = corn. Remind them that the vowel is in front of the r. Model with car, bark, and farm 5 minutes: Together the students will build hard, sport, yard, storm, porch with magnetic letters. These are tough for them but I make them talk through it. 12 minutes: Students will be handed a premade writing frame. Sometimes the writing frame is on the comprehension skill and other times it relates the to essential question. This week I choose the skill. Writing frame is read with blank being said whenever there is a blank. Students fill in blanks themselves after going back in the text to find evidence. Writing frame: James wasnt happy because he was _____________________________ about baseball __________________________________. Since he was nervous, his sister told him to think about ______________________________________. She hoped that her advice would _________________ him at tryouts.