Guided Reading Lesson Plan
Text Title: Erosion by Virginia Castleman
Level: Guided reading level T, lexile level 860L
Nonfiction
Book Introduction
(describe how you will teach/re-enforce these skills
within the text you’ve selected)
- I will call back the guided reading group I plan to work with
- Students will be aware of reading groups already, so when I call back the "baseball group" they will know who will be working with me
- I will introduce the book "Erosion" by Virginia Castleman
- we will discuss as a group what we think the book is about after doing a picture walk
- I will have the consonant blend we are focusing on written on a board behind me for the students to see
Phonics Focus: (CC): Consonant Blends
1. Bl-
2. Dr-
3. Cl-
4. Gl-
5. St-
Vocabulary Focus:
Students will look up vocabulary words in the glossary of the book
Glossary:
1.Absorb
2.Contract
3.Drought
4.Evaporate
5.Expand
6.Glacier
7.Particle
8.Sediment
9.Vapor
10.Weathering
Work Work
Activity
During Reading (describe
how you will teach/re-enforce these skills within the text you’ve selected)
Comprehension
non-fiction
1. I will be reading the book "Erosion" along with the students. We will stop after every page and check for consonant blends.
2. I will have students read through each page and identify any bold words and ask why they think that word is in bold.
3. I will have students take turns reading one page each until the end of the book.
2. I will have students read through each page and identify any bold words and ask why they think that word is in bold.
3. I will have students take turns reading one page each until the end of the book.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Fluency and phrasing
I will have the following checklist posted on the board behind me and remind students to go by the fluency checklist while reading!

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I will have the following checklist posted on the board behind me and remind students to go by the fluency checklist while reading!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/271904896228704273/
Word decoding
"How do we know what that word is based off the picture? Does that give us any clues?"
"Lets sound it out"
"The letter _ makes what sound?"
Word work activity:

"Lets sound it out"
"The letter _ makes what sound?"
Word work activity:

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After Reading
Writing
Activity
"Who can tell me something new they learned today about erosion?"
"Where did you know how to find the meaning of that word?"
"What does the bold word mean?"
- Review consonant blends
- Review word decoding
- I will have each student pick a page from the text to write about (water erosion, ice erosion wind erosion; etc)
- Students will write a few sentences about the page they chose and what they learned about that type of erosion
Set of Erosion by Virginia Castleman books to hand out
Work activity handouts
Paper and pencil to write after reading

