Unit 2- "Good Fit Books" and Genres
Day 1 of 3
During Unit 2 you will learn about choosing "good fit books" and the different genres of books that we have in the Library. You will have a chance to set your reading goal for the year and decorate your workbook.
To do:
- Five Finger Rule and Good Fit Books
- Read aloud
- Choose books
- Tracker and goal setting
- Genres-What are they?
- What genres do we have in the Library?
- Explore Sora
Five Finger Rule and Choosing "Good fit books"
When you are selecting a book to read the five finger rule is one tool that you can use to decide if a book is a good fit for you.
Begin by reading any page of the book from top to bottom. You count all of the words you don't know on one hand. Look at the chart below:
Begin by reading any page of the book from top to bottom. You count all of the words you don't know on one hand. Look at the chart below:
EASY * you can read the words fluently (smooth and with an interesting voice) *there often are not a lot of words on a page *you know how to say all the words *there are not a lot of pages in the book *you have a lot of background information on the subject *sometimes the book has a larger font *you totally understand the story *your reading rate may be quicker *your thinking comes easy as you read the words | Good Fit *you can read most of the words *you can understand what you are reading *you enjoy the book *you may have some background information on the subject *you can read the book with smooth fluency but there are some choppy places *your reading rate is just right- not too slow and not too fast *you can figure out the tricky words and still get the meaning of the story | CHALLENGING *many of the words are too hard to decode (failed a five finger test) *you don't know what the tricky words MEAN *your reading becomes choppy more than it is fluent *you don't have any prior knowledge of the subject *there are often a lot of words on the page *often the font is small *you lose focus as you are reading *you are not enjoying the book because you have to do too much word work *your thinking is confused *your reading rate slows way down |
Source: http://ayearofmanyfirsts.blogspot.com/2012/11/five-finger-rule.html
Read aloud and choosing books
While you are waiting to take your turn to choose your books we will listen to our class read aloud.
Virtual students, you can listen to the read aloud by using the password posted in the stream of your Google Classroom.
Virtual students, you can listen to the read aloud by using the password posted in the stream of your Google Classroom.
Reading Tracker and Goal Setting
In second grade we begin tracking the different books that we read. You will set a goal for the number of books that you think you can read by the end of this school year. Put the number in the box in the corner.
Genre- What is that?
Have you ever heard the word genre before? Genres are different groups of books. We can use the word genre in other places too!
Examples:
Music: Rock, country, pop
Movies: Scary, funny, action
We have 11 genres of books in our library and we track which ones we are reading. After you checkout your books you shade in the box of the matching genre.
Virtual students, you can track the different genres you are reading by printing this page out or creating your own graph.
Examples:
Music: Rock, country, pop
Movies: Scary, funny, action
We have 11 genres of books in our library and we track which ones we are reading. After you checkout your books you shade in the box of the matching genre.
Virtual students, you can track the different genres you are reading by printing this page out or creating your own graph.
Genres in our Library:
- Adventure: Stories involving danger or exciting experiences.
- Animals: Stories with animal characters.
- Fantasy: Stories set in imaginary worlds, often with magical creatures.
- Historical: Realistic fiction based on the past.
- Horror: Scary stories.
- Humor: Funny stories.
- Mystery: Stories based on solving puzzles or crimes.
- Science: Imaginative stories involving science or technology.
- Sports: Stories that focus on a sport.
- Graphic Novels: Stories told with pictures and speech bubbles.
- General: Realistic fiction or books that don't fit into just one genre.
Classroom Only
We are going to take some time to decorate and personalize our workbooks.
Virtual Students
Explore the ebook choices on Sora. The link to Sora and video directions is posted in your classroom stream in Google Classroom.