Diary of a Wimpy Kid
This Literature plan uses a literature book that brings a huge interest to the middle school ages reading, "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw". Reading instruction will increase the level of fluency, and understanding of words, and how they create meaning within the text. Read alouds in small groups will help students be comfortable with reading outloud to one another. They will gain a confidence from the book's theme of learning from everyday trials, and how to overcome power in one's self.
Overview:
Day 1
Introduce the book by giving students strips of paper with 1-3 sentences from the book. Each student will read the sentence strips and guesses for the book will be taken afterwards. This gives students a chance to capture ideas from the book, and see the types of content text.
Day 2
Students need to know that just reading words on a page doesn't have to be in a mundane voice. Use expression into the reading. We will use a variety of voices when reading the text aloud. In the end, they will create a song of their choice using the character's personality traits.
Day 3
Fluency reading concepts in reading text aloud. Small group reading to ensure students' security of reading aloud. Read the text in different voices to give confidence for students proceeding in red robin reading.
Students will play hangman as a group on words that are unfamiliar or hard to pronounce correctly. A fluency test of 1 minute reading probes will be give.
Day 4
Funbrain teasers/Mad Libs. The book uses lots of mad libs that are funny to the audience. Begin by reading a comic strip to the students. Then have the students create their own comic strip using the list of vocabulary words used through the week for fluency.
Day 5
Students will engage in an activity where they bring the learning pieces of sentence structure together and create a comic strip. They must recreate the story and use sketches of drawings in pencil like the book.
This Literature plan uses a literature book that brings a huge interest to the middle school ages reading, "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw". Reading instruction will increase the level of fluency, and understanding of words, and how they create meaning within the text. Read alouds in small groups will help students be comfortable with reading outloud to one another. They will gain a confidence from the book's theme of learning from everyday trials, and how to overcome power in one's self.
Overview:
Day 1
Introduce the book by giving students strips of paper with 1-3 sentences from the book. Each student will read the sentence strips and guesses for the book will be taken afterwards. This gives students a chance to capture ideas from the book, and see the types of content text.
Day 2
Students need to know that just reading words on a page doesn't have to be in a mundane voice. Use expression into the reading. We will use a variety of voices when reading the text aloud. In the end, they will create a song of their choice using the character's personality traits.
Day 3
Fluency reading concepts in reading text aloud. Small group reading to ensure students' security of reading aloud. Read the text in different voices to give confidence for students proceeding in red robin reading.
Students will play hangman as a group on words that are unfamiliar or hard to pronounce correctly. A fluency test of 1 minute reading probes will be give.
Day 4
Funbrain teasers/Mad Libs. The book uses lots of mad libs that are funny to the audience. Begin by reading a comic strip to the students. Then have the students create their own comic strip using the list of vocabulary words used through the week for fluency.
Day 5
Students will engage in an activity where they bring the learning pieces of sentence structure together and create a comic strip. They must recreate the story and use sketches of drawings in pencil like the book.
