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1 Grade Band: Intermediate Unit17 Unit Target: History Unit Topic: Friends in Different Places Lesson 3 Instructional Targets Reading Standards for Literature Range and Level of Text Complexity: Experience grade level and age-appropriate literature materials, including stories, poems, plays, fiction and nonfiction works that are adapted to student reading level. Reading Standards for Foundational Skills Fluency: Read appropriately Leveled Books with accuracy and fluency. Which of your state standards are aligned to these instructional targets? Easy Read Book: Visiting Canada Classroom Activities/Lesson Plan This lesson presents an Easy Read Book. The book follows a sequence to introduce beginning, middle and end concepts of story reading. It also presents the characters, setting and events of a story. In this story, students will learn about Canada. This story tells about a visit to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Moose Jaw is a city in the province, Saskatchewan, in Canada. As we explore and compare different cultures, we can get a feel for life in our neighboring country. This book is identified as a Level E. Multiple readings of the book will provide students with repeated opportunities to build individual reading skills. Do a picture walk. Discuss the characters and actions from the pictures. Help students make predictions about what will happen next in the story. Introduce what will happen first, next and last. Introduce high-frequency words from the story. Read the story aloud to model fluency. Ask questions related to the characters, actions and events in the story. Read the story aloud, pausing for students to complete repetitive or predictable lines. During independent or paired reading, focus on the students individual abilities and needs. Encourage students to use pictures to support reading words. Have students use decoding skills to identify unfamiliar words. Support student reading, using the communication board to do so. Follow up reading by locating Canada on a map or globe. Use a map and help students understand how far Michelle would travel if she was from Arizona. Use the map and discuss how far Canada is from your town/state. Discuss why Michelle and Tracy are happy to see each other. Ask, Why do you think Michelle hasn t been to Moose Jaw for a long time? Discuss how it is expensive to fly and some relatives we do not see as often as others. Have students tell about family members that live far away. Standards Connection Use the book features and the pictures to continue interaction with the book. Have students locate the title, the author and the illustrator of the book. Invite students to identify and describe characters, setting and events from the story pictures. With students, read the text to determine whether this story is told by the author or by one of the characters in the story. Pre- and post-assessments are available through Monthly Checkpoints. Differentiated Tasks Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 Students will independently read literature: stories, poems, plays, fiction and nonfiction works that have been adapted to student reading level. Students will read supported and shared literature: stories, poems, plays, fiction and nonfiction works that have been adapted to student reading level. Students will independently read text stories that are selected at the personal reading level. Students will state a word or point to a picture of an omitted word during shared reading. Students will read leveled text that is supported with picture symbols. Students will actively participate in supported reading of literature: stories, poems, plays, fiction and nonfiction works that have been adapted to student ability level. Students will state a sentence from a story through an active participation response (e.g., voice output device, eye gaze choice board). Resources and Materials Easy Read Book: Visiting Canada Communication board Standards Connection Lesson 3 Notes 2013 n2y ULS, September 2013

2 Grade Band: Intermediate Unit Target: History Unit Topic: Friends in Different Places Instructional Targets Unit17 Standards Connection Lesson 3 Reading Standards for Literature Key Ideas and Details: Describe characters, setting and events in a story. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use illustrations and multimedia to describe the meaning of text. Reading Standards for Literature and Informational Text Craft and Structure: Use text features (charts, bolded words, etc.) and illustrations to locate information in a text. Identify the point of view of a story (first person: character tells; third person: writer tells). Differentiated Tasks Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 Students will use text features to locate specific information in a text. Students will use picture support to locate specific information in a text. Students will identify a picture of an event from a story. Students will describe characters, setting and events in a story. Students will use picture supports to identify characters, setting and events from a story. Students will select a picture to identify a character or an event from a story (single Students will describe characters and events Students will point to pictures within a story to option or errorless choice). based on illustrations and other visuals from a identify named characters and events. When presented with an illustration from a story. Students will identify a character who is telling story, students will select a character or an Students will identify the point of view of a a story. event. story by determining who is telling the story (writer or character). Students will identify a picture of a character from a story. Tell students to use the book features and pictures to discuss, locate and answer these questions. What is the title of this story? Who is the author of this story? Who is the illustrator of this story? Who are the characters in this story? Describe a character. Where did this story happen? Describe the place. What happened in this story? Describe the event. Who is talking in this story? Author Character 2013 n2y ULS, September 2013

3 Visiting Canada Level E by Kathy Staugler Illustrated by Amanda Noss and Katie Schwab 2013 n2y ULS, September 2013 INT, Unit 17, History, Friends in Different Places Lesson 3, Easy Read Book, Visiting Canada, Level E

4 1 Tracy lives in Canada. She lives in the town of Moose Jaw.

5 2 Tracy loves the fall season in Moose Jaw. The weather is cool. But the sun shines bright.

6 3 Tracy is happy today. Her cousin Michelle is coming to visit. Michelle lives in the United States. Michelle will fly on an airplane to get to Moose Jaw.

7 4 Tracy and her father drive to the airport. Michelle s airplane will land at 9:00. They wait at the gate in the airport.

8 5 Tracy looks and looks. Then she sees Michelle. Tracy runs. Michelle runs. Tracy and Michelle hug.

9 6 I am happy to see you, Michelle, says Tracy. I am happy to see you too, says Michelle. I like to come to Moose Jaw. I have not been to Moose Jaw for a long time.

10 7 The girls ride in the car to Tracy s house. Look, says Michelle. I see Mac the Moose. Mac the Moose says Welcome to Moose Jaw.

11 8 Look, says Michelle. I see the trolley. Yes, says Tracy. We will ride the trolley.

12 9 Look, says Michelle. I see the riverboat. Can we ride the riverboat too? Yes, yes, says Tracy. There are many things to do in Moose Jaw.

13 10 Tracy s father looks at the girls. We will have fun in Moose Jaw. How about we start with ice cream on Main Street?

14 11 Yes, yes, yes! The girls will have lots of fun in Moose Jaw.

15 The End 2013 n2y ULS, September 2013 INT, Unit 17, History, Friends in Different Places Lesson 3, Easy Read Book, Visiting Canada, Level E

16 yes Visiting Canada no live love cool Tracy Canada fall weather visit fly happy sun today cousin Michelle drive look fun airplane father airport car run hug Mac the Moose trolley riverboat ice cream ride 2013 n2y ULS, September 2013 Within each category, pictures are listed from left to right in the order in which they appear in the text. INT, Unit 17, History, Friends in Different Places Lesson 3, Easy Read Book, Visiting Canada