MONDAY

Time

Activity

Teacher
Role

Student
Role

9:00-9:15

Interactive ReadAloud

Students will be listening,

answering questions, making
connections and creating
predictions.

9:15-9:30

Reading MiniLesson

Teacher will read aloud twothree chapters of the book

Out of my Mind by Sharon
Draper, modeling, thinking,
and asking questions.
Using the book Wonder by
R.J. Palacio, the teacher will
instruct the class on a lesson
about making predictions
while reading.

9:30-10:10

Independent
Reading/
Conferences

Teacher will be moving

around the classroom and
conducting short reading
conferences with several
students.

Guided Reading

Teacher will pull groups of

students heterogeneously or
homogeneously for guided
reading sessions to the
table.
Status of the class will be
taken. Then, the teacher will
move around the classroom
and conduct conferences
with various students.

10:10-10:45

Independent
Writing/Conferences

Students will watch the teacher

model how to make a
prediction, develop a prediction
with the teacher, then work
independently to create a
prediction using a passage that
was given. The students will
have the opportunity to thinkpair-share with a partner next to
them.
Students will be reading their
independent reading book of
choice. They will be using their
sticky notes to write down a
connection they share or a
prediction that they may make.
Students will be called in
groups to work with the
teachers on various reading
strategies.
Students will be working
independently on their personal
essays.

10:45-11:00

Guided Writing

Teacher will call groups of

students for guided writing
sessions.

Share

Teacher will choose various

students to share with the
class

Students will be called in

groups to work with the teacher
on their development of their
personal essays.
Students will share with the
class something that they are
working on, an experience or a
cool object they brought in to
show.

TUESDAY
Time

Activity

Teacher
Role

Student
Role

9:00-9:15

Interactive ReadAloud

Students will be listening,

answering questions, making
connections and creating
predictions.

9:15-9:45

Independent
Reading/
Conferences

Teacher will read aloud twothree chapters of the book

Out of my Mind by Sharon
Draper, modeling, thinking,
and asking questions.
Teacher will be moving
around the classroom and
conducting short reading
conferences with several
students.

Guided Reading

9:45-10:10

Literature Circles

Teacher will pull groups of

students heterogeneously or
homogeneously for guided
reading sessions to the
table.
Teacher will listen from a
distance to the students
discussing the book that they
are using for literature
circles.

Students will be reading their

independent reading book of
choice. They will be using their
sticky notes to write down a
connection they share or a
prediction that they may make.
Students will be called in
groups to work with the
teachers on various reading
strategies.
Students will meet with their
literature circle groups that
were heterogeneously chosen
to engage in a meaningful
discussion of the book they
have read. At the end of the
literature circle, the group will

choose where they are reading

to for the next class.

10:10-10:25

Writing Mini-Lesson

Teacher will use the book

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen to
instruct the class on how to
write a simile.

10:25-11:00

Independent
Writing/Conferences

Status of the class will be

taken. Then, the teacher will
move around the classroom
and conduct conferences
with various students.
Teacher will call groups of
students for guided writing
sessions.

Guided Writing

Students will watch and listen

to the teacher define the
strategy, practice how to
construct a simile with the
teacher. Once the students
return to their desk, they will
add a simile into their personal
essays that they have been
working on.
Students will be working
independently on their personal
essays. They can be
developing their paragraphs,
revising, editing or publishing.
Students will be called in
groups to work with the teacher
on their development of their
personal essays.