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We worked on a Reader's theater piece for The Gingerbread Man! It's below if you want to see it. :)

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Level F The Sledding Adventure: It has a fiction selection, followed by a play, and ending with non fiction info.

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Level F The Sledding Adventure: It has a fiction selection, followed by a play, and ending with non fiction info.

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Has activities on the back cover to interest students on writing about something that is their your favorite.

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We checked out several "Wishy-Washy" books to use for shared reading. 

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We checked out several "Wishy-Washy" books to use for shared reading. 

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Our kids love the first one that we did so I'm thinking they will love these too and will buy into reading them independently as well.

Kim & Katelyn

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The Big Wave - New text in the main book room - G71
Thoughts on the text - It is nice that a book level that is typically not second grade is formatted as a chapter book. This way students feel like they are reading higher level text like the rest of the on level students.

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I am currently using this book with my  students.  Lesson Focus: Introduce students to nonfiction and it's features.  First, I had the students look through the book and talk about what they noticed. We discussed the features (labels, captions, bold print, glossary,  and diagrams).  This text  has a good lead to get the reader interested (use of question for lead). This text can be used as a mentor text to show an example of a good lead, reasons provided for opinion writing, and details given for informational writing.

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Planning for guided reading and taking observational notes ... new form from new guided reading book...

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Planning for guided reading and taking observational notes ... new form from new guided reading book...

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Lesson Focus: Comprehension through discussing cause and effect after reading.
Word Work: Long a vs. short a - looking at the title there are two long a's.  Discuss how to make long and short a's when spelling.
Vocabulary: Words to look at and discuss: milkmaid, market, thought, pail, miller, toss.  Phrases: Toss her head, Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Text introduction: Discuss what a milkmaid is - then tell students that the story is about a milkmaid who carries a pail of milk on her head and thinks about what she will do with the milk.  Students should pay attention to how on thing causes something else to happen which causes something else to happen.  (cause and effect)

Did this today - we didn't get to the cause and effect part yet - will touch on it tomorrow, but homonyms came up with pail/pale, maid/made and let to more discussions about homonyms! Students seemed to enjoy this book and have enjoyed the other new books we have read

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We used Explore the World books for opinion writing mentor texts.