Shared Reading Plan

Book Information:
Book: Michael recycles
Author:
Illustrated by:
Level: Kindergarten/1st Grade

Introduction: Michael Recycle is a theme related book to my Recycle Unit plan. This picture
book is a great tool for my Unit plan due to its inspiring moral message, easy relations to
everyday experiences, rhyming structure, and use of fonts and color to define upper and
lowercase letters. The book tells the story of a town full of wasteful people who litter and
certainly don't recycle. The superhero Michael Recycle arrives and teaches the people the
importance of recycling. This story is a great tool for teaching both rhyming and prediction. The
reader will begin to think about the information that Michael Recycle gives the town to decide if
they are going to successfully clean up their environment. Each page of the story has rhyming
words rooted in the story. These words are sometimes less common phrases, which also provide
great opportunity for introducing new vocabulary.
This book is great for shared reading because it helps demonstrate the importance of
concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness through rhyming, phonemic
awareness, sight word, analogy words, and phonics. Together with the colorful captivating
illustrations the authors helped make the idea of recycling fun for children through its rhyming
verses.
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Focus 1 - Alphabet Knowledge

Standard/Indicator:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.D:

Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Activity to Teach Alphabet Knowledge: My Own alphabet book

Alphabet knowledge is important for children to learn before they begin to attempt to read.
Being able to recognize both upper and lower case letters are a precursor to successful readers.
This is a great way to teach children the alphabet and a great resource for them in future writing
activities. As we study the letters we will add the upper and lower case to the book. They will
each be given a traceable alphabet book to trace both the upper case and lower case letter with a
color marker. . They will search through the recycled materials that they have collected to find a
picture that has that beginning sound and pasted to their alphabet book ring. Example Aa picture
of an apple. In this Unit we would be working on the letter R. Each morning we will open up
our alphabet book rings and practice tracing with our finger and saying out loud the letter three
times as a class.
 Similar concept but with recyclable parts to integrate the unit theme.

Focus 2: Phonological or Phonemic Awareness

Standard/Indicator:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.E

Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new
words.

Activity to Teach Phonemic Awareness: Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify, think
about, and manipulate sounds in spoken speech. Phonemic awareness is a prerequisite to reading
Rhyming is such a great phonemic awareness activity and Michael Recycle is a great example of
introducing this concept by a Read aloud followed by….

In my Recycle Box

Get a small box and place some pictures (try and use pictures of things that we might recycle
along with others to integrate the theme unit can/tan cap/tap) in it with pairs of familiar words
that rhyme. Sit in a circle with your students and hold the box and take a picture out. If the
picture shows a hat say “In my box, there’s a hat”. Call on a student to come up with a rhyming
word. The child might say, “cat ”. Now this child gets to hold the box and continue play.
 Focus 3: Sight Words

Standard/Indicator:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.C

Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

Activity to Teach Sight Words: sight words ---and, where, their, his, they, then, use, it, can

Sight word Memory card game . This provides a lot of opportunities for repetition in sight
reading. Students will be given index cards two cards per sight word(10) and will cut out from
their recycled materials that they have received by engaging the entire school community (
persuasive posters about recycling) to begin recycling. They will cut out the letters of their
words and paste them onto the index cards. They will then partner up and play the traditional
concentration game except they must read the word as they turn the card over.

Day 4: Analogizing Words

Standard/Indicator:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D

Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

Activity to Teach Analogizing Words: Recycled Bottle Cap Word Center- These cards can
be made by the teacher; having the beginning sounds or the ending sounds missing. Have
children recycle water bottle caps and bring them to class. Teacher will write each letter of the
alphabet on the top of the cap and use it for this activity. (Recycling theme).
 Students can group together and have sentence cards and alphabet bottle caps that are placed in
a brown lunch bag and students take turns picking out letters to complete their word on the
sentence card. First one to complete the word must say the word correctly. This is a student
engaging fun learning activity that students will have fun playing while learning at the same
time.

Focus 5: Phonics

Standard/Indicator:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3.a
Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the
primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.words.

Activity to Teach Phonics: Build A word CVC Cards Phonic Rule: CVC Pattern. As
students are learning the letters and sounds of the alphabet it is important that they use the letters
to read and write words. In this exercise students will begin to understand that letters represent
sounds.
Teacher will make CVC cards with a picture of something following the pattern; man, can, tin,
cap, hat, (words from the book). Students will get into groups and will use their alphabet bottle
caps to build the word that correlates with the picture. They will have read the word to each
other.

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Center 2 MILK CARTOON RECYCLING ACTIVITY Students will practice CVC

building skills, word reading, and letter sounds as they identify each letter needed for the picture
found on the ‘recycling bin’ and to form the word. The milk cartons will have the letters and the
recycling bin is where they place them. Teacher needs to begin by pointing to the CVC picture
and letting the students have a chance to identifying it before beginning to look for the letter
sounds. Teacher will have printed, laminated and cut the cards as well at the letter pieces. Have
the students work on one card at a time and have the letter pieces shown clearly on the table as
they choose the letters to build their CVC words.

These activities all provide a solid foundation for the emergent reader to become successful. In
a balanced literacy program, students see reading and writing modeled, share in the reading and
writing with the teacher, are coached, practice and are, actively engaged in word study activities.
This unit hopefully will help teach skills necessary for students to become successful readers and
writers.