1st Grade Close Fiction Reading to Master Reading Comprehension Skills

This class is student-driven and extremely effective for learning reading comprehension skills. This class is suitable for students who read at a 1st grade level (Guided Reading levels F, G, H). If you are not sure of your child's Guided Reading level, please let me know and I can send you a sample text(s) of what we will be reading in class.

During each class a fictional text is divided up into logical chunks (a couple of paragraphs or a page, depending upon how dense the text is). We start the class by thinking about the title and picture on the cover of the day's story, and make a prediction about what might happen. We review story elements- characters, setting, problem and solution. 

Then, students take turns reading sections of text until the entire text has been read and discussed. While reading, decoding strategies and grammar rules are pointed out, as well as definitions of new vocabulary.



Week 1: Bonk's Bad Dream
Week 2: Brainstorm Bear
Week 3: The Last Piece of Cake
Week 4: Zots Helps Out
Week 5: Gordon Finds His Way
Week 6: A Dog for Sally
Week 7: Best of Friends
Week 8: Bake Sale
Week 9: Josh Gets Glasses
Week 10: The Loose Tooth
Week 11: Carlos Joins the Team
Week 12: Laws for Kids
Week 13: Zots Learns to Share
Week 14: The Elves and the Shoemaker
Week 15: Brother Messy, Brother Neat
Week 16:  The Little Red Hen/ The Magic Bike
Week 17: The Sleepover
Week 18: Eat Like A Pig
Week 19: Jack and the Beanstalk
Week 20: Safari
Week 21: Billy Goats Gruff
Week 22: Run!
Week 23: The Day I needed Help
Week 24: Miles the Nile Crocodile
Week 25: Katie Rides Her Bike
Week 26: Katie's Big Change
Week 27: Alistair's Night
Week 28: Stella Storyteller
Week 29: Our Camping Trip
Week 30: Lou's Flu
Week 31: We Do Yoga