Activity Plan #2

(60 minutes for EN 440)

Tutor and Students Names: Mikela, Hailey and Adriano
Date Lesson will be Used: October 16, 2014
Goal:
Comprehending the story through small phrases
Student Strengths: Adriano: His excitement about reading
*Chart will expand as much as you need as you type

Activity
Read Aloud (with snack)

Time
about 10-15 min

*Must do

Rereading Familiar Text

*optional to use New or Familiar
reading.

Reading New Text

Details

Materials

Student loves Clifford books, its in the

Halloween season and talking about timeline of
the story to go into our main focus

Cliffords
Halloween

Main focus: Sequence

-Work on sequencing to promote details, big
ideas and understanding the story. (Students will
draw here!)
-Pushing readers to think deeply about reading,
not just the surface story. (Making connections)
Secondary focus: Reading with confidence

Bubbles, level 2

Students should be
spending the majority of
their time together with
you READING!

*optional to use New or Familiar

reading.

Comprehension
Skills & Strategies Work
Choose Fluency or comprehension
as a mini lesson or teaching point to
use with familiar or new reading

Is this your main focus?

10 min mini lesson followed
by modeled, guided or
independent practice

Fluency
Skills & Strategies Work

Is this your secondary

focus?
Will be a support only, not a
full mini lesson.

Choose Fluency or comprehension

as a mini lesson or teaching point to
use with familiar or new reading

Writing in Response to
Reading

Bubbles, level 2

-Allowing students to read their phrase silently,

then reading out loud with confidence.

15-20 min

Include several times but always

requiring higher level thinking.

Word Work (Phonics,

15-20 min

The game makes students really work on the

difference between long vowel and short vowel
sounds.

5-10 min

Talk about making connections to reading to

between understand and remember. Also, to

Sight words, Vocabulary)

Often this is a game

Wrap Up

*must do
Review mini lesson, talk about next

Vowel Bingo

session, make goals for time in

between tutoring

be confident in reading independently and in

class.

Next Steps (to be completed at end of tutoring session):

Introducing another book, and extent phrase size. Adding in reading with expression or how they think a character
would say the phrase.