Presented by: Cheryl Dick

. . . in aWhole-Group Setting

Differentiate

Reading . . .

Partner Reading “Tricks of the Trade”

Arrange your partners carefully.Never pair a high and low reader together.Seating matters. Echo Phones = SanityI’m done . . .What do I do now?. . .Plan ahead.

Reread and make connections. Reread and look for interesting vocabulary. Reread and summarize. Reread, reread, reread . . .

Partner ReadingList your students from advanced readers

to emergent readers . . .

JohnSallyGingerTomLibbySamanthaJaneTim

Partner ReadingDivide the Class In Half . . .

JohnSallyGingerTom_______________________________________LibbySamanthaJaneTim

John, Libby

Sally, Sam

Ginger, Jane

Tom, Tim

Connecting: Self/Text/WorldPredicting/AnticipatingSummarizing/ConcludingQuestioning/MonitoringImaging/InferringEvaluating/Applying

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Text-to-Self Connection

Text-to-Text Connection

Text-to-World Connection

SOUVENIRS

Circle three words you think will not be in the text.

Place a checkmark next to each word when you read it.

Which words were not in the text?

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Big Underwear Song by Joe ScruggsTrainHouseBusRocketAlienTrollSpaceDog

Introduce key vocabulary.

Use this vocabulary to predict what will happen in the text.

It’s like hangman because blanks are given for each letter in the word.

It’s unlike hangman because the teacher fills in one letter at a time starting with the letter on the left.

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Suddenly the loud screech of a hawk echoed through the darkness and all the members of the Adventure Club found themselves huddling together in the shadows of the pine trees. Katie shot her water gun in the direction of the hawk and everyone listened as strange and unfamiliar noises of the night filled the woods.

Text: George Washington’s Socks by Elvira Woodruff

Notice that each word is covered with TWO

colors. The onset is first (all the letters before the

first vowel).

Next, uncover the onset (all the letters

before the first vowel). Then, reread your list and cross out the word shriek because it won’t

work. (shr vs. scr)

After uncovering the onset, collect more words. This is a good time to teach synonyms. Continue playing Guess the Covered Word. NEVER

cover a word beginning with a vowel.

Do you have this book?

If You Hopped Like a

FrogBy: David Schwartz

As you read, you’ll discover that if you ate like a shrew, you could devour over 700 hamburgers in a day. To figure out the answer, you will have to do some math.

A shrew? What’s a shrew?? Shrews are

among the smallest of

mammals but they can eat up to

THREE times their weight

daily. If you ate three times YOUR

weight, how many

hamburgers could you eat?

Does this change your answer?

•Who:

•What:

•When:

•Where:

•Why:

•How:

Notes:___________

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•Who: Chewy Louie

•What: Chewed everything

•When: All the time

•Where: Everywhere

•Why: He was a puppy

•How: Happily

Chewy Louie, a

little black

puppy, happily

chewed

everything in

sight until he

grew up.

Source: Moore, S. A., (2004). Conversations in Four-Blocks Classrooms . Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa Publishing

This strategy allows students to engage in conversation around individual, key words. Students must justify the selection of a word and use text to support their choice.

What was the main character’s name?

How did she feel about her reading ability? Include at least two details from the story to explain your answer.

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Everyone read to . . . .

•find a fact about plants.

•find an opinion about plants.

•determine the cause of the plant’s death.

•find the solution to the problem.

New-Known-QuestionsSource: Moore, S. A., (2004). Conversations in Four-Blocks Classrooms . Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa Publishing

New to me: Known to me:

Questions I Still Have:

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•Let’s go “into our fur.”•Chewie Louie by Howie Schneider•What happened to the bowl?•How do you know?

Use the clues from the picture. INFER what happened on our way to Alabama.

INFER where this photo was taken.

What about this one?

•I see . . .

•How did the book make you FEEL?

•_______ would really like that book because _______________.

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Primary Resource:Cunningham, P., Hall, D., Cunningham, J.

(2000). Guided Reading the Four Blocks Way. NC. Carson Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc.

http://www.wfu.edu/education/fourblocks/