Unit 2- "Good Fit Books" and Author's Purpose
Day 1 of 3
To do:
- Listen to our first week of the read aloud we chose
- Select books
- Review our book tracker and set reading goal
- Learn about "Good Fit Books"
- Learn about author's purpose
- Decorate workbook
Read Aloud
While we are selecting our books we can listen to our read aloud that we voted on. If you are at home you can listen by clicking the button below. You will need our database password that is posted in our Google Classroom.
Book Exchange
While we listen to our read aloud we select new books. If you are at home you can choose a book on Sora. See your Google Classroom Stream for directions and a link to Sora.
Reading Tracker and Goals
After we checkout our books we record what books we are reading. On your reading tracker record the titles of the books that you are reading. In the corner of your tracker your page you can set a goal for how many books you think that you can read by the end of this school year. If you are at home, record your titles on any piece of paper.
Example:
If you read about one book a week for the entire school year your goal will be about 40.
Example:
If you read about one book a week for the entire school year your goal will be about 40.
"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
Author's Purpose
Author's purpose is something else you can think of when you are choosing a book. Authors write books for many different reasons so think about the type of books that you might want to read. We are going to practice identifying author's purpose.
We are going to practice on page 15 in our workbooks.
Extra Time: Decorate your workbook
With any extra time in the classroom we will decorate our workbooks.