My main focus with the book is to work on comprehension skills like discussing characters, setting, problem, solution. I also want the students to sequence story events visually in the correct order of beginning, middle, and end. To target all of these skills, I created visual supports that accompanied the story. Today, I discussed not only the genre with the students but the story vocabulary as well before reading the book.
The students and I then read the book chorally. Of course some groups required a little more support than other but all groups were able to answer the questions relating to the book especially with the visual supports. Goal for tomorrow is to reread the book and answer comprehension questions about the story.
I am hoping that the kids are successful with the following activities. I am hoping that they are able to complete the a visual story event sequence independently (which is at times difficult when working with at risk students). I made two versions for the students. One version only has three events and the other has 4 story events.
I also want to check whether the students understand the meaning of vocabulary-- characters,
setting, problem, and solution so I wrote questions for the students to
respond to related to the for concepts I am targeting. My major goal
was to be able to check comprehension of the students who were not quite
writing yet fluently. So I came up with comprehension questions with
visual responses. I am very excited to try them out with my kinders
tomorrow.
