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May / June 2018
Happy Summer!
In North Carolina, it's beach time. At the River has just the story to help you bring a little bit of the beach into your classroom.
This month, I'll share ideas for working with the story "The Beach" from At the River Unit 6. "The Beach" features plenty of decodable short vowel words but also a handful of useful sight words. It's a stress free story that showcases an important part of American culture. It also helps students practice fluency and decoding while learning some new verbs like sit, play and swim. Even if your students live far from the beach, it's easy to relate the story to the lakeshore.
The lesson plan below shows how to use one simple text in many different ways. This approach saves prep time for you, while allowing your literacy students the practice they need for fluency and comprehension. You can apply these teaching techniques to any story in At the River, especially the longer stories in Units 6-10. See the link for free reproducible worksheets to use with the story.
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Shelley Hale Lee
Author, At the River and Other Stories for Adult Emergent Readers
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Start the lesson with plenty of visuals. Say, "Tell me about the picture." Then build on the words students already know to make simple sentences for speaking practice. Examples: Students say "children," "boy," "girl," "sit," "sand," "water," "run." Model and ask students to repeat: "The children are sitting. The children play on the sand. The boy is running. The boy is in the water. They are at the beach."
Sources for pictures: magazines, Google Images, Oxford Picture Dictionary (black cover) p. 225.
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