Guided Reading Lesson Plans
For The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaolaDay 1:
Prereading
-“What’s For Reading?”- Look through text for 1 minute and decide what kind of text it will be and how they know. Ask, “Is what we will read today probably a story or probably information?” and “What will it be about?”
-Predict by using anticipation guides- Give students a page with 6-10 sentences of true and/or false statements about the book. Say, “To get ready for our reading, I am going to show you some sentences about popcorn, and you have to decide whether you think each sentence is true or not true. Let’s read this sentence and then talk about it.” Read each sentence and discuss whether they think it’s true or false. After discussing each sentence, reread all the sentences and have the students mark them as “true” or “false.”
Reading
-Discuss what order to read things in- text, pictures/captions, fact boxes, etc.
-Set purpose for reading- read to prove if statements on anticipation guides are true or not. Mark sentences with post-it notes that provide proof.
-Read first 3 pages silently.
Day 2:
Reading
-Set purpose for reading- read to prove if statements on anticipation guides are true or not. Mark sentences with post-it notes that provide proof.
-Read first half of book silently.
Responding
-Discuss any sentences found in first half that provide proof for anticipation guide statements.
Day 3:
Exploring
-“What’s the Missing Word?” activity- Using sentences from second half of book, delete every 5 words. Have students work as a group to determine the missing words. After filling in all the blanks, have students look at book and decide if they used the same words as the author used, words that mean the same thing, or words that are wrong.
Reading
-Set purpose for reading- read to prove if statements on anticipation guides are true or not. Mark sentences with post-it notes that provide proof.
-Read second half of book silently.
-Discuss any sentences that provide proof for anticipation guide statements.
Day 4:
Reading
-Reread book with partner.
-Fill in graphic organizer (information web)
**Web categories: Kinds of popcorn, ways of making popcorn in the past, interesting facts about popcorn, and how popcorn is used today
-Share graphic organizer in group.
WORKSHEETS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
What‘s the Missing Word?
For The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola
Today, Americans use 500,000,000 pounds ___________ popcorn each year. 30% is ___________ at movies, circuses, ball games, ___________ county fairs. 10% is saved ___________ seed and sold to other ___________. But 60% is popped right ___________ home. People in the Midwest ___________ more popcorn than any other ___________ of the United States. Milwaukee ___________ Minneapolis are the top popcorn-___________ cities, followed by Chicago and Seattle. ___________ of the popcorn is ___________ in the Midwest, too. Popcorn ___________ best stored in a tight ___________ in the refrigerator, so the ___________ keep their moisture. If the kernels ___________ out, there will be too ___________ “old maids” left at the ___________ of the pan. “Old maids” ___________ unpopped kernels.
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