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Below 2nd Grade: three students

Title: On the Ball


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.

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