Rachel Booker-Reading Lesson Overview

For my reading lessons I will work with the same three students who struggle with comprehension reading factors.  My MT shared that all three students are below reading level and should work on comprehension strategies, especially ones that build meaningful connections. For each lesson I will focus on one skill.

            All three of my students are males that are in a second grade Spanish immersion classroom. Kyle reads great in Spanish but struggles with English and comprehending the text. He often goes off topic when asked comprehension questions (verbally and orthographically). Dave is the lowest of the group and struggles with connecting to text. He struggles in both Spanish and English texts and thinks that they “aren’t important” or relevant to his education. Dave does not know how to select main ideas and supporting details. Julius is a very soft-spoken boy who is a monotone reader. He lacks expression and often incorrectly identifies the big ideas and the theme of the story. Julius does not connect events in the story with one another and often mixes up their order in the story.

            Using the same book I used for my ELA lesson, I will work on self to text and text to world connections. I want my students to be able to comprehend and make meaningful connections with events in the story to real life. This way they can see the relevance of the text as well as learn how to identify what’s important and why. Both lessons will be based on Tompkins chapter 8.