| Good Night, Owl The Four Seasons |
| Shared Reading: day 1: make predictions using the front/back cover, introduce book, title, author, and illustrator, then read for enjoyment! day 2: reread the book with the children, focus their attention on new vocabulary Identify the action words. Review season terms. day 3: reread the book with the children, focus on print conventions Introduce sight words "and" and "to". Find sight words "I" and "see". day 4: reread the book with the children, experimenting with intonation and expression, focus on same/further print conventions or language targets We reviewed the concept of punctuation, focusing on periods. day 5: reread and respond (responses can be oral, written, or visual, depending on the shared reading book) We retold the story using the book's pattern- The (animal) (animal's sound) and owl tried to sleep. Then we published the pages into a class book. We responded to this book by creating a chart "It's fall. We can see ..." Then we listed/illustrated all the fall things we could think of! |