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The African Elephant Analysis

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*Warm up in browsing boxes
Sight Word Work Sight words: play, run, she, six, ten
Choose a couple ways to review:
-word wizard -write on whiteboards -find around the room or in text
Mark correct words on chart in front pocket with a checkmark by student’s name… 6x is a known word
Introduce book: This book is called The African Elephant it is a non-fiction book that will help us learn more about African Elephants and how African elephants are in danger. What do you already know about African Elephants? Many elephants have been hunted for their ivory tusk.

New Vocabulary: walking, grass, sticks, crack, hidden, under, falling, and pulling
*Reinforce these ideas while doing the picture …show more content…

- Get your mouth ready: Lips the Fish
- Re-read the sentence and see if it makes sense: Tryin Lion (Re-read the sentence)
- Stretch the word in the sentence: Stretchy snake
- Check the beginning, middle, and ending parts of the word?
- What is happening in the story? What is the problem? (comprehension)
Teaching Point After Reading: Select one after observing students first read through

Word Solving Strategies:
- Attend to the ending sound, some example words in the text include: falling, pulling, pulled, and walking
- Slow finger check and eye check, and make sure students are one to one matching
- Look at the visual clues, and look at the picture. Eagle Eye: look at the picture does it match what you read
- Attend to beginning, middle and ending sounds in words
- Look at the beginning of the sound Lips the Fish. Get your mouth ready.
- Re-read a page for expression (comprehension)
- Retell story the beginning-middle-ending (comprehension) *Collect Books for tomorrow’s lesson

Discussion Prompt: What happened to the Elephant? How did the elephant get out of the pit? Why are elephants in danger? Why did the elephant fall into the trap? How was the trap …show more content…

- Is that a word you know? (anchor or frequency words)
- Re-read the sentence/word and see if that makes sense? Tryin Lion
- Does the sentence/word match the pictures? (Eagle Eye)
- What happening in the story? How do you think the character felt?
- Discuss characters and their feelings? Why are African Elephants in danger?

Teaching Point After Reading: Select one after observing students first read through
Word Solving Strategies:
- Monitor
- Reread at difficulty Tryin Lion, re-read the sentence and see if that word made sense
- One-to one matching: make sure finger and eyes are on the same word
- Retell the story beginning-middle-end (comprehension)
- Get your mouth ready: Lips the fish
- Attend to the endings such as pulled and pulling

*Place book in browsing box

Discussion Prompt after reading: Why is the African elephant in danger? Do you think all elephants could pull themselves out of these pits? Do you think a small elephant could have gotten out of the trap? Why are African Elephants in danger?

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