4th++Active+Reading+Lesson

** Objectives ** : The students will code annotated text or “Tracks in the Snow” with an article from __Trail Tales__. (Trail Tales is a free Nebraska magazine that we receive at school. The articles are usually two pages in length.) ** Previous Knowledge ** : Good readers use certain types of pondering while they read such as: questioning, reading text features before the article or lessons is read, analyzing and visualizing. Annotated text is an excellent tool to help students think while they read. ** Lesson ** Ask the students at the end of the article, “Did anyone make a text-to-self connection? Tell us about it.” Ask the students, “Did anyone make a text-to-text connection? Tell us about it.”
 * Class ** : 4th grade Active Reading Lesson
 * Teacher: ** Kathy Curry
 * School ** : Burwell Elementary
 * Unit: ** __The Write Tools/Active Reading Strategies__ pages 15-17
 * Materials ** : article, pencils, colored pen or markers, e-board with the annotated text codes to see, copy of the sheet of codes will be at their desks also
 * Duration ** : one class period of approximately 20- 25 minutes
 * Step one ** : Copies of an article and the codes will be handed out. (I like to have the codes up on our e-board, too.)
 * Step two ** : Discuss the codes, page 17, and explain what they mean. Ask the students it they would like to add any more after they are familiar with the process.
 * Step three: ** Read each paragraph of the article aloud, and make the thinking clear to the students by talking as a whole class about what is being read.
 * Step four ** : We will complete this task together numerous times as whole group instruction, before they will work independently.
 * Step five ** : At the beginning of this school year (this is the first year anyone at our school has had Write Tools training so this is all new) I will have the students use highlighters to help them edit conventions in the article. (Find all the capital letters at the beginning of the sentences, and all the end marks at the end of the sentences.) Step five shouldn’t have to be repeated very often at this grade level.