Brown and Orange in Fall

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Before After Level E Word Count 128 100th word the pg 17 Reading Activities Teaching Focus One to One Correspondence Point to each word as you read be about Before Reading Building Academic Vocabulary and Background Knowledge Before reading a book it is important to set the stage for your child or student by using pre-reading strategies This will help them develop their vocabulary increase their reading comprehension and make connections across the curriculum 1 Read the title and look at the cover Let’s make predictions about what this book will 2 Take a picture walk by talking about the pictures photographs in the book Implant the vocabulary as you take the picture walk Be sure to talk about the text features such as headings Table of Contents glossary bolded words captions charts diagrams or Index 3 Have students read the first page of text with you then have students read the 4 Strategy Talk use to assist students while reading 5 Read it again 6 After reading the book complete the activities below Get your mouth ready Look at the picture Think does it make sense Think does it look right Think does it sound right Chunk it by looking for a part you know remaining text High Frequency Words Flip through the book and locate how many times the high frequency words were used are brown fall is it’s or orange the they’re what After Reading Comprehension and Extension Activity After reading the book work on the following questions with your child or students in order to check their level of reading comprehension and content mastery 1 Why do you wear sweaters in the fall Asking questions 2 What is a rake used for Summarize 3 Why do the cornstalks change from green to brown Inferring 4 What is your favorite thing to do in the fall Text to self connection Extension Activity Create your own fall tree Gather red yellow brown orange and green construction paper and a large piece of white butcher paper or poster board Using the brown construction paper draw a tree trunk and cut it out This will be the trunk of your tree You can glue this to the white paper Next trace your hand on the different colored paper Cut out each hand and glue them on the white paper above the trunk Continue to trace your hand and cut it out until you have created a full colorful fall tree How many hands do you count You can create a fall background using markers or paints