Reading Lesson Overview

Reading Lesson Overview

For my lessons, my teacher is having me work with two separate groups of students (two students per group). She has given me a high achieving reading group and a lower level reading group. For the first group, she has asked me to focus on comprehension. The second group she would like me to focus on word knowledge.

The reason that my MT knows that Michelle and Tommy, the high level readers is because during the past two reading assessments she conducted with these students, she found that while their fluency was higher than average, their comprehension of the text read was lower than expected. Both Michelle and Tommy have the same comprehension issue- they think events happened in the book that didn't happen, or they will get them out of order. In order to assess this, I will focus on comprehension by using the retelling method. I would like both Michelle and Tommy to be able to retell the story in order, and we will check it by every so often "does this make sense with the rest of the events?"

For the second group of lower level readers, I will be taking Ollie and Sunny. My MT would like me to focus on word knowledge because during her assessments with Ollie and Sunny she noticed that these two students were great on sounding out words, however they would continue onwards without understanding what was going on in the story. This resulted in poor overall comprehension. For this lesson I will focus on using Thompkins chapter 7 on the word knowledge strategies- using context clues to help them determine what is happening in the story.