5th+Grade+Active+Reading

Nancy Swett – Burwell **Objective ** Review: Text – Text, Text – World, Text –Self. Activity Students will write and Free Responses to chapters of the book, __Shiloh__.  Day 1 Teacher will read the book, the first chaper of Shiloh to the class. . As I read, I will stopand have students use free response to check for understanding and connections being made. Day 2 I will read 2nd chapter in the book. We will do free response again. We will discuss at the end of each chapter how the story relates to the World, ourselves,and other text that  we have read.  I will continue to do this everyday until the end of the book.We will discuss everyday how the book relates to us,our world, and other things we have read. I may also have  them do a picture summary After we have finished the book we will be writing a persuasive Essay. So we will review the Expository toolbox (which they will have prior knowledge to). I will also ask them questions to help them.  Example Questions: 1. What is the writer's opinion? When we are talking about these questions we will also be talking about how that relates to th T-T,T-W,T-S. 2. What is a convincing reason the writer offers for liking this book? Why do you like/dislike this book? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">As we go through questions using different parts of the book.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5th Grade Active Reading Assignment **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">* If you were talking about opinions you could use highlighter(if the page were copied off) to mark opinion words such as //I think,should would.//