Building a Reading Life

LUCY CALKIN’S

Lesson 1: Best & Worst

Reading Times

frustrated  

bored  confused  

Learning from the Worst Reading Time! “ The Pits”

uninterested  

Learning from the BEST Reading Times!!

loved  it  interested  

the  best  

excited  

Reading ALWAYS needs to be like a BEST MEMORY!

Think what were you doing during your best memory?

Can you do some of those things while you are always reading so reading becomes the best it can

be for each of us?

This makes me think that to make reading the best it can be, I should…

Building Your Reading Stamina

10 minutes!

When the timer goes off..

In your readers notebook ask yourself:

1.  What was working for me today?

2. What wasn’t working for me today?

You Make the Choice!

Reading can either be the pits

OR

it can be the best!

It is all up to you! Make the choice and the changes

to make it the best it can be!

Lesson 2: Making Honest,

Important Reading Resolutions

Reader’s Make Resolutions, Too!

Why?

What Third-Grade Readers do…

Do: Don’t:

Your Resolutions

What kind of a reader do you want to be?

Your Resolutions

What kind of a reader do you want to be?

What can you do to get

there?

Building Your Reading Stamina

15 minutes!

During Reading today:

Jot down interesting parts from your book in your Reader’s Notebook

Lesson 3: Finding Tons of

Just-Right Books

You’re the Boss!

•  You’re the boss over what you read.

•  You’re the boss over how much you read.

Tons of High-Success Reading

•  Not getting stuck

•  Not starting and stopping and starting again.

•  ONLY mind-on-the-story reading

Just Right Books

Today, I want to teach you how to recognize the kind of books that are at your own personal level.

Ones that you can read smoothly, with accuracy and comprehension. This way you can be the boss of your own reading life.

Signs to watch for when choosing a book

Too Hard: Just Right:

Your turn

•  Get a book from the library, take it to your desk.

•  Look through the book. Open it up to a random page and read the whole page.

•  Jot down why the book is too easy, too hard, or just right in your reader’s notebook

•  Go to another book and •  do it again.

Wrap Up

•  Remember in order to grow to be the best reader you can be you need:

TONS OF HIGH-SUCCESS READING

Can you get tons of high-success reading with a book that is too easy? Too hard? Or just right? •  Being your own boss means you pick just

right books for yourself!

Building Your Reading Stamina

15 minutes!

During Reading today:

Jot down interesting parts from your book in your Reader’s Notebook.

Jot down if the book you are reading is

just right or too hard.

Lesson 4: Reading Faster,

Stronger, and Longer

Hard-workers!

You worked hard last week! •  You made goals •  You learned what makes

reading work well for you •  You learned how to pick your

own JRB’s •  You were building your stamina

Faster, Stronger, Longer Readers

Today I am going to teach you a few tips! •  Take off the brake as we read •  Pick up our reading pace a bit at times How can I do this all the time?

Faster, Stronger, Longer Readers

Reading fast, strong, and long 1.  Follow words with eyes, not finger 2.  Guard against constant, tiny look-

backs, Read on, read on. 3.  Read with feeling so you hear a

read-aloud voice, or feel the tone, in your head

 

Reading Logs

Pick a tip!

Today push yourself to read for longer without getting restless. We have been stopping after 15 minutes. Today I want to get to 20 minutes. To do that you need to try to use the tips you learned today!

Building Your Reading Stamina

20 minutes!

During Reading today:

Write a letter to Ms. Wolgy telling me what your book is about and why I should or shouldn’t read that book.

Lesson 5: Awakening

Ourselves to the Text

Marisol’s Memoir I’m the kind of girl who has never had a birthday party. I live with my aunt. She cooks macaroni for me and tells me to get going and where have I been? She doesn’t think about my birthday. Last summer, I went back to the Dominican Republic and my baby sister– she’s big now– and they gave her a party. No one could tell I never had one.

Marisol’s Memoir continued… Soon I will be ten. I pretended there will be a party and the kids will come and we’ll play “duck, duck, goose” and we’ll listen to the radio and there’ll be a pink cake. “TO MARISOL”. But then my dream ends. I’m the kind of kids who never had a birthday party.

Auto-pilot Reading •  Sometimes we forget that words

matter!

•  Driving in Autopilot vs. Reading in autopilot

Words Matter

Autopilot: Real Reading:

Miss Wolgy Reading Herself Awake!

What do you notice? You try it!

Read like the words matter!

When you are reading independently it is important not to let the words pass you by. So, today and everyday take the time to read like the words matter!

Building Your Reading Stamina

25 minutes!

During Reading today:

Find a part where you think the words matter! Write down a a part that really

grabbed your attention.

Then write why it grabbed your attention.

Lesson 6: Holding Tight to

Meaning

Yesterday

•  Auto-pilot reminder

•  Reminding ourselves what is happening in the story when we stop reading.

•  We recall what we just read, telling the parts in sequence.

Practice Together

•  Today I want to teach you that readers sometime become confused in their reading. When we’re confused we can say, HUH? and continue reading asking, “what’s going on?”. But then sometimes, we need to reread.

Mental Movie Together

•  As you listen, remember to make a movie in your mind.

When Our Mental Movie Grows Blurry

•  Realize it, ask. Huh?

•  Continue reading, asking, “what’s going on?”

•  Look at details

•  Ask, “Could it be that…? Or could it be…?

•  Reread, if necessary

GOOD READERS

•  Don’t whip through the words

•  Pay attention and make mental movies

•  Retell the stories to ourselves

•  Remember the characters name, we describe them, and the setting

•  Notice when they are confused and read on asking, “What’s going on?” OR we go back and reread

Building Your Reading Stamina

25 minutes!

During Reading today:

Who is the character?

Where are the characters now?

What are the characters doing?

Building Your Reading Stamina

25 minutes!

During Reading today:

Sketch your mental movie from reading today!

Building Your Reading Stamina

25 minutes!

During Reading today:

Sketch your mental movie from reading today!

Lesson 7: Hero or Villain

Who are they?

Superman, Batman, Spiderman,?

Juggernaut? Voldemort? Green Coblin?

What makes a hero a hero?

How do they act?

What makes a villain a villain?

How do they act?

Independent Reading

Hero: Villain:

Building Your Reading Stamina

30 minutes!

During Reading today:

Were you being a hero or villain during independent reading today?

How?

Building Your Reading Stamina

30 minutes!

During Reading today:

What did you love about your book today?

Lesson 8: Buzzzzz

about our Books

Previews at a Movie

What do they do?

Why do they have them?

Previews at a Movie

What do they do?

Why do they have them?

Buzzing about Books

Today we are going to do that but with BOOKS!

Good readers create a buzz about the books they love.

Elmer and the Hippos

Do you remember when we read… Let’s create a buzz about that story for Mr. Kelley’s class. First we tell the book title and author’s name. Then we summarize to entice! Always include the most interesting parts.

Recommend it to a friend! Buzz about it!

1. Title and author’s name 2. Summarize a bit of the story 3. Tell about Interesting parts of the story 4. An excerpt from the book 5. Why does the book matter to you?

You try it! (Watch a reading rainbow movie)

1. Title and author’s name 2. Summarize a bit of the story 3. Tell about Interesting parts of the story 4. An excerpt from the book 5. Why is the book mattered to you!

You try it on your own! (with a picture book of your choice)

1. Title and author’s name 2. Summarize a bit of the story 3. Tell about Interesting parts of the story 4. Question 5. Why the book matters to you!