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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).
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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