Title: Reading Comprehension

Author: Katie Law

Grade: 6th

NE STANDARDS:

8.1.1 By the end of the eighth grade, students will identify the main idea and supporting details in what they have read.

8.3.1 By the end of the eighth grade, students will participate in group discussions by asking questions and contributing information and ideas.

INTEGRATED DISCIPLINE: Language Arts, Technology

OBJECTIVES:

·        Students will be able to write in their journals at the end of each class how they felt about the chapters read that day.

·        Students will be able to list what happened in the story from beginning, middle, to end.

ASSESSMENT

·        Students will turn a journal in at the end of class and will write a short story on the book that they read during class.

·        The students will write their own version of the story from class and put in feelings and things they would do if they were in that situation.

MATERIALS

Holes by Louis Sachar
journals
pens
markers
paper
movie “Holes”
spiced peaches

PROCEDURES

Anticipating Set: Show 15 minutes of the film “Holes,” to the 6^th graders, but don’t tell them what happens in the rest of the movie.  Explain to them they will be reading the book Holes and when they are done they will finish up the movie.

    Vocabulary:

Sploosh
Camp Greenlake
Spiced Peaches
Kissing Kate Barlow
Stanley Yelnats
gypsy
Warden

    Activities:

      T: Show the students the movie “Holes.”

      T: Explain to the students that they are going to be reading the book Holes, by  Louis Sachar.  They will not be able to watch the rest of the movie until they read the entire book.

      S: Read chapters each day until the book is finished.

      S: Complete vocabulary worksheets as they go along through the book.          .

      T: Give them time to complete the worksheets at the end of each class. But if they don’t get done, it is homework.

      T: Give students reflection questions and short answer questions to be done in their journals outside of class.

      S: Answer questions in journals and add anything they want to.

      T: Discuss the book each day and ask them questions to see if they comprehended what they read.

     S: Answer questions and have group discussions over the reading material.

     T: Assign a short story about what they would do in the situation and make sure it has a beginning, middle, and end.

     S: Write a story and illustrate it.

     T: Talk about “sploosh” and plan with the students on the day when they watch the movie they can bring in food made from peaches.

     T: Show the movie “Holes.” Have sploosh day and eat the food made with peaches.

Provision for Sp. Needs: The students that are unable to see I will play the book on CD so they can listen.  I will bring in food for the students who cannot eat the Sploosh.

CLOSURE: At the end of the book and movie I will ask the students what they have learned.  We can make a graphic organizer and a big book of stories from all their small stories.