Here are a year's worth of literacy-based language therapy! I dedicated each month to one book. We work on pre-reading language activities, we read the book and we always follow-up with post-reading language activities. Most of the books give insight into various cultures and/or historical events. So, here's to LANGUAGE, CULTURE and FUN!!!
SEPTEMBER: Disgusted when other swimmers continually disrupt his attempts to shoot through the water like a silver arrow, Norvin formulates a wicked plan that will let him have the water and the beach to himself.**
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Related to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Taught Visualizing and Verbalizing Tenets for Describing
Lesson 4: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 5: Acting Out Story
Lesson 6: Created the LONGEST SENTENCE EVER!!!
OCTOBER: The witch has grown the biggest pumpkin ever, and now she wants to make herself a pumpkin pie for Halloween. But the pumpkin is so big she can't get it off the vine.**
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Related to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Reviewed Visualizing and Verbalizing Tenets for Describing, Describe Characters
Lesson 4: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 5: Acting Out Story
Lesson 6: Story Retell Using “Push-Button Figures” SLP brought in. Retell Story
NOVEMBER: After a fire destroys their home and possessions, Rosa, her mother, and grandmother save and save until they can afford to buy one big, comfortable chair that all three of them can enjoy. After their home is destroyed by a fire, Rosa, her mother and grandmother save their coins to buy a really comfortable chair for all to enjoy.**
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Related to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Start Collecting Change in Jar to “Purchase a Chair,” Pull in Math Vocabulary
Lesson 4: Reviewed Visualizing and Verbalizing Tenets for Describing, Draw & Describe Chairs
Lesson 5: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 6: Acting Out Story
Lesson 7: Lesson in the Classrooms – Teach Story Grammar Rap to all First Grade Students
Lesson 8: Use money collected to “buy” chairs that they drew during Lesson 4.
DECEMBER: A boy goes on an adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express.
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Related to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Start Collecting Change in Jar to “Purchase a Chair,” Pull in Math Vocabulary
Lesson 4: Reviewed Visualizing and Verbalizing Tenets for Describing, Describe Characters
Lesson 5: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 6: Acting Out Story
Lesson 7: Sentence Expansion Activity followed by hot chocolate
Lesson 8: SKYPE with another campus to retell stories to one another! Students earn a bell.
JANUARY: This year Sam gets to spend his New Year's gift money any way he chooses. Shopping carefully in his favorite Chinatown stores, he is disappointed to find that everything he wants is too expensive. Deciding to forgo a tasty sweet or a new toy for himself, Sam donates his money instead to a barefoot homeless man.**
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Related to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Read Non-Fiction about Chinese New Year, Talk about Chinese Zodiac
Lesson 4: Reviewed Visualizing and Verbalizing Tenets for Describing, Describe Characters
Lesson 5: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 6: Acting Out Story
Lesson 7: You Tube Video about Dragon Dances, Retell Story
Lesson 8: SKYPE with another campus to retell story to one another! Show dragon puppet.
Fun Activity: Dragon Dances throughout the School!!!
FEBRUARY: Henry Brown is a slave. When his family is sold at the slave market, he finds a way to live in the North. He mails himself in a crate.
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Related to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Talk about the differences between the North and South during the Civil War. Do compare/contrast activity between present day and Civil War time.
Lesson 4: Reviewed Visualizing and Verbalizing Tenets for Describing, Describe Characters
Lesson 5: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 6: Draw Pictures of Members of Family. Describe Family. Compare/Contrast to Henry’s Family.
Lesson 7: Talk about the crate. Use describing words. Draw a crate.
Lesson 8: Act out story. Retell Story.
MARCH: The kids in Room 207 are always misbehaving. The students don’t proffer a shred of respect for their good-natured teacher Miss Nelson, but when the witchy substitute Miss Viola Swamp appears on the scene, they start to regret their own wicked ways.**
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Relate to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Compare/Contrast Miss Nelson’s classroom to Mrs. Phuong’s (SLP) class.
Lesson 4: Describe Characters
Lesson 5: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 6: Draw Pictures of Members of Family. Describe Family. Compare/Contrast to Henry’s Family.
Lesson 7: Talk about the crate. Use describing words. Draw a crate.
Lesson 8: Act out story. Retell Story.
APRIL: George Crum coped with prejudice as a boy during the 1830s. As a young man, he became an excellent cook and was hired as a chef at a restaurant frequented by high society. Once, responding to a persnickety customer, Crum retrieved the dish of French fries, whittled them into very thin slices, and cooked them in hot oil, creating the forerunner of the potato chip. Later in life, Crum opened his own restaurant, where everyone was treated equally, regardless of skin color, gender, age, or economic status.
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Relate to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Visualizing/Verbalizing lesson in first grade classrooms. Go generalization!!!
Lesson 4: Describe Characters & Settings
Lesson 5: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 6: Act out story. Retell Story via SKYPE with another campus.
Jazz Chant
George Crum! (clap, clap) George Crum! (clap, clap) He did not like school! (clap, clap)
George Crum! ((clap, clap) George Crum! (clap, clap) Loved to hunt and cook!
George wants! ((clap, clap) George wants! (clap, clap) A job! A job! (clap, clap)
He works! (clap, clap) He works! (clap, clap) In a Restaurant! (clap, clap)
The food! (clap, clap) The food! (clap, clap) So COLD, So COLD!
He falls! (clap, clap) He falls! (clap, clap) So angry! So mad!
Potatoes! Potatoes! More thin! More thin!
Chips! (clap, clap) Chips! (clap, clap) So yummy! So good!
George Crum! (clap, clap) George Crum! (clap, clap) Owns a restaurant!! (stomp, stomp)
May: When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library . . . and figured out how to bring electricity to his village. Persevering against the odds, William built a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero who harnessed the wind.
Lesson 1: Looked at Pictures, Pre-determined Characters, Setting, Problem, Relate to Personal Experience
Lesson 2: Read Book, Story Grammar Rap
Lesson 3: Begin campus-wide sticker drive for children in Malawi. Make talking points for advertisements and announcements.
Lesson 4: Practice and film announcements.
Lesson 5: Describe Characters & Settings. Compare characters to classmates.
Lesson 6: Sequencing Activity, Retell Story
Lesson 7: Compare/Contrast Austin, TX to Malawi Africa.
Lesson 8: Act out and retell story.
STORY GRAMMAR RAP
Presented by Mrs. Wrong
Characters are the people in a story? WHO?
(repeat)
Setting is when and where? WHEN? WHERE?
(repeat)
Problem, you what’s wrong? UH-OH?
(repeat)
Solution, let’s soooolve it! HOW?
(repeat)
This is an awesome resource! Can you tell me what grade level(s) you used these with? Thanks!!!
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