[smitty509]

Hi there,

Anyone out there doing 5-day shared reading plans in kindergarten? I feel like I am floundering - my kids are going to mutiny! Would anyone be willing to post a plan or two - they are really hard to find for kindergarten, or at least that has been my experience. I teach JK/SK and my kids have a lot of challenges.

Any and all ideas would be appreciated!

[fromkto3]

For a Big Book I always did:

Day 1: Read the book aloud to students and stop before the ending to predict what will happen. Either draw, write, or discuss.

Day 2: Model concepts of print. Go over cover, title, author, illustrator, cover page, letters vs. words, reading left to right, etc. Sometimes I let the children use a pointer to point to the words while I read.

Day 3: Focus on any high frequency/dolch words. Let the kids use wikki sticks or hilighter tape on these words.

Day 4: Discuss anything interesting or different about the text (rhyming words, alliteration, vocabulary).

Day 5: Some kind of response activity. Write a different ending, make a class book based on similar ideas in the big book, do some kind of class graph based on something in the book.

Also, throughout the week, I would read less and less of the text, having students fill in the "empty spaces". By Day 5, they usually read the whole thing without any help.

For poetry, I do the same thing, except on Day 5 I have a poetry book with the poem glued on the top of a page. They illustrate the poem. They take the book home over the weekend to read to families, and return it to school on Mondays. They LOVE this!

Hope this helps...

[kgardengal]

I'm so fortunate not to be in such a prescriptive district. This site has been around for awhile and gives ideas for a number of books. I've found that by googling the title of the book I'm working with I can find lots of ideas. http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/g...ly_Instruction

[gokester4281]

Shared reading poems:

Day 1: Read the title and draw prior knowledge on the topic. I then read the poem.

Day 2: Concepts of print. Locate capital letters and highlight them. Then we read all the capital letters. Lastly we read the poem a few times.

Day 3: Locate high frequency words and highlight them. Read all the high frequency words we found. Read the poem a few times, have one or two students become the pointers.

Day 4: Comprehension questions. Read the poem.

Day 5: Students take turns being the pointers and reading it. It then gets added to our poetry center in addition a copy is printed and the following week they work on it in their poetry journals and follow the same schedule as above with my assistant.

[Eli O.]

hubbards cupboard has lots of lesson plans