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Lesson 22 - Setting Purpose: From Engagement Text to Decodables

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teaches Common Core State Standards RF.2.3.c http://corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RF/2/3/c
teaches Common Core State Standards RF.2.3.f http://corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RF/2/3/f
teaches Common Core State Standards RF.2.3.d http://corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RF/2/3/d
teaches Common Core State Standards RF.2.3 http://corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RF/2/3
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Lesson 22 - Setting Purpose: From Engagement Text to Decodables

About this lesson

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Daily Learning Targets 

  • Opening A: I can retell the events from the current edition of Sunnyside Gazette: “New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary.”
  • Opening B (optional): Using evidence from the text, I can answer questions about the current edition of the Sunnyside Gazette: “New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary.”
  • Work Time A: I can read I can high-frequency words and words that “don’t play fair”: “school,” “sure,” “none,” “friends.” 
    • I can read second-grade words that “don’t play fair” (irregularly spelled words).
  • Work Time B: I can read the decodable text: “Friends at School.” 
    • I can decode (regularly spelled) two-syllable words with long vowels.
    • I can decode words with common prefixes (part of the word at the beginning) and suffixes (part of the word at the end).   
    • I can read second-grade words that “don’t play fair” (irregularly spelled words).

In Advance

  • Prepare:
    • Snap or Trap T-chart.
    • Snap or Trap Word Cards (write the following words on index cards: “school,” “sure,” “none,” “friends,” “ready,” “anybody,” “will,” “for,” “know”).
    • Interactive Word Wall (one to display).
    • Comprehension Conversation questions (if different from suggested questions).
  • Predetermine partnerships for retelling during Opening A and Work Time B.
  • Gather materials for differentiated small group instruction (see Differentiated Small Groups).

 Digital Materials Preparation:

  • Prepare to display the lesson or assign it to students before class.
  • For digital assignments, ensure that students have access to a digital device. 

Vocabulary

  • Lesson-specific: comprehension, grapple, responsibility, retelling
  • Text-specific: enthusiastic/enthusiastically, replied

Materials

  • Enlarged Engagement Text: “New Principal and New School Year at Sunnyside Elementary” (one to display)
  • Snap or Trap Word Cards
  • Snap or Trap T-chart (on white board or chart paper; Snap on one side and Trap on the other)
  • Enlarged Cycle 5 Decodable Student Reader: Friends at School (one to display)
  • Interactive Word Wall (one to display)
  • Cycle 5 Decodable Reader: Friends at School (one per student)
  • Highlighters (one per student and one for teacher)
  • Highlighter tape (optional; for the teacher to use to highlight the Decodable Reader)
  • Tape, magnet, or other material to fasten Snap or Trap Word Cards to the Snap or Trap T-chart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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