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Reading Program Week 9

The document outlines a week of activities for a reading program focused on the book "Pig the Fibber" by Aaron Blabey. On Monday, students will be introduced to new vocabulary words from the book and work in groups to define the words without using them in the definitions. Tuesday and Wednesday activities focus on decoding, punctuation, fluency, and stopping to correct mistakes when reading aloud. Thursday encourages expressive reading and predicting characters' thoughts by throwing dice with sentence starters.

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Reading Program Week 9

The document outlines a week of activities for a reading program focused on the book "Pig the Fibber" by Aaron Blabey. On Monday, students will be introduced to new vocabulary words from the book and work in groups to define the words without using them in the definitions. Tuesday and Wednesday activities focus on decoding, punctuation, fluency, and stopping to correct mistakes when reading aloud. Thursday encourages expressive reading and predicting characters' thoughts by throwing dice with sentence starters.

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Reading Program Week 9

Pig the Fibber by Aaron Blabey


Monday – Book Introduction Tuesday – ‘Zooming in’ Wednesday – ‘Zooming in’ Thursday – ‘Zooming out’
Introduce your word (don’t A puppet that makes mistakes. Punctuation mime Read the text together and
show the students the text) encourage students to join in
Record some of the tricky words Accuracy Fluency with the reading, focusing on
on the whiteboard. Groups of 4 Decoding strategy: stretchy Focus: punctuation expressive reading.
take one word each. Their job is snake
to decode the word and work out Agree on actions for the different 1. Thought, question,
what it means. Then each group Reread the text with the students. punctuation marks. statement
introduces their word to the
group. On one or two pages, get the Read the text together and stop Stop on one or two pages with
puppet to read. The puppet or go back to one page and read interesting action and predict
The challenge is not to use the makes mistakes that don’t sound it and add the punctuation what a character might be
word in the definition. For right or make sense (select errors actions. thinking. Model this first.
example, they can’t use the word that are similar to those students
perfect when giving a definition make). The students have to tell Discuss how the punctuation 2. Use the dice reading activities
for perfect. the puppet to stop, explain what helps students to read fluently. to ask questions about the
it did wrong and give it tips to text.
Once students have introduced fix the mistake.
their words, ask them to talk in Model throwing the dice and
their groups and to predict what finishing the appropriate
the text might be about. sentence.
Share ideas.
The teacher throws the dice
Introduce the text and then read again and students work with a
it to the students. partner and take turns to
complete the sentence.
Notice the words the students
have introduced and check on
the meaning in context.
Retell the main ideas in the text
using the Retelling talking strip.

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