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Hi this is Annastasia Johnson
your Supervising Teacher
Today I am going to be showing you
how to use the Houghton Mifflin Reading
textbook to its full potential
The very first thing you want to do is
introduce the theme
So lets go do that right now
Nature's Fury
After you have told your student the title of the theme discuss
the small selection and ask some questions
For example what kind of stories
do you think you will be reading?
What do you think is meant by
Nature's Fury?
Then introduce the first story
In this case it is Earthquake Terror
Then ask your student the strategy focus question and
show them a few of the pictures
After you have done this you will want to have
your student define the vocabulary words on a
lined blank piece of paper with a dictionary
Once they have completed defining the words
go ahead and give your student the spelling pretest
You will find both the vocabulary words and spelling words in
your reading workbook
Have your student number a lined blank piece of paper
from 1 to 20
Read the words, then a sentence, then the word again
For example, if the word was communication
You would say communication
All communication devices broke down during the Earthquake
Communication
You would do this for all 20 words and then when you were done
you would correct their test
Any misspelled words should be rewritten correctly 5 times each
If your child missed more than 20%
have them do the spelling workbook pages throughout the week
Then go ahead and begin by reading the story
When you read the story you could read out loud together
or you can have your stucdent read it individually
When you read it out loud together
I like to do what I call
piggy-back-reading
this is where your student reads a paragraph
and you read a paragraph, or your student
reads a page and you read a page
I suggest at the end of every page that you ask some questions
just to make sure that your student is understanding the story
When you are done with the story
go ahead and have your student do the think about the selection questions
Number 7 is what I call a Response to Literature question
Have your student do this question because we do have this in our
writing program and by having them practice it,
they will be sure to understand that when they get to it
Your student does not have to do the writing prompt at the bottom,
of the page
however you can assign it
If you choose to assign that part of the writing I would remind
your student what kind of story they
just read, which in this case
was what we call an adventure story and
have them think about an adventure they have taken before
Then have them use a blank piece of paper and
brainstorm where they took the adventure,
who they went with
and what happened
Once they've done the brainstorming, they will
be able to easily write an adventure story of their own.
Thank you for taking time to learn how to use
this book to its full potential
Have a good day.