Guided Reading Lesson Plan- 2nd Grade 

Text Title: Hansel and Gretel

Level: 680

Fiction

Book Introduction (Before Reading) (describe how you will teach/re-enforce these skills within the text you’ve selected)

• The students will be in predetermined reading groups based on their DRA level and other reading assessments. 
• I will call the students to the table by color. 
• Example: "Can the blue group please come to the table?"
• This specific guided reading lesson is for the higher level student group. Their color is blue.

Introduce the Book:

• The book we are going to be reading is Hansel and Gretel. Who is the author of the books, based on the cover? The illustrator?
• Do a picture walk with the student of the cover and the pictures throughout the book. 

While reading this book we are going to focus on the asking and answering such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in the book. (CCSS)

Phonics Focus:

Also while reading, we are going to be looking for words that have common vowel teams. We will focus on knowing and spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

The students will watch the video of when two vowels go walking to help explain the CCSS. They will then do the activity laid out below.

CCSS: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.B
 Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

Video of when two vowels go walking. 

           Activity:

Word Work Game

Vocabulary Focus:

The main focus on vocabulary will be using those vocabulary words that fit in with the phonics lesson. 

Vocabulary Words: rejoiced, devouring, daybreak, dough

The students will read each vocabulary word and spell it to the teacher. Coming up with ideas about what they think that words means. Then they will apply the phonics to the lesson by telling which vowel does the talking in the vocabulary words. 

Example: dough has "ou" but the "o" is who does the talking in the word.

Also remind the students will reading the text, if they see anymore words with two vowels to write them down on their sticky notes. 

During Reading 

The students will silently read the last chapter of Hansel and Gretel.
Remind them to write down any words that have two vowels together in them that they are not familiar with.

            Comprehension- For checking the students comprehension they will do a S-W-B-S. They will write             about:

• Somebody (who was the story about?)
• Wanted (what did the character want?)
• But (but what happened?)
• So (so how did it end?)
• The students will work individually and answer these in sentences in their guided reading journal. 

Fluency and phrasing

For fluency and phrasing i will listen to the students while they read and see how long it takes them to read the last chapter. The students who read the quickest are a little more fluent in reading than the others. But that doesn't mean they comprehend it as well, so i will make sure and ask comprehending questions to the students. 

Word decoding
Remind students to:

• Reread and ask themselves if it makes sense. 
• Chunk the words together if they need to. 
• Use known parts of a word to decode the word. 
• I will check this in students based on how fast they get done reading the last chapter of the book. I will have them whisper read to themselves so that i can see how they are word decoding and take anecdotal notes. 

After Reading 

After reading the students will be given a read and recall writing paper. They will list the title of the book they read and what the story was mostly about. They will then list 2 things that they remember from the story. Then they will draw something that happens in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. This will help students with comprehension and it is something that students can go back on and look at to remind them about the book they have read.

Students comprehension will be check by the S-W-B-S system that was used above. I will look over the students guided reading journal to make sure they have done all the journaling required in the lesson.

The main comprehension focus of this lesson, is to see how well the students can comprehend the essentials to the story. The main character, settings, events, and key details from the story.

Review the phonics focus with the students and any words that they wrote down on their sticky note during reading the last chapter.