Hi, Grade 4 students! Each week complete one lesson. Choose your lesson below.
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Lesson 1: In this lesson, we focus on the diphthongs AU and AW as Gretel Dawes and her brother Hansel navigate life with their Wicked Step Mama.
Meditation: We begin every session with a check in and meditation. The brief meditation allows us to bring focus to the work we will do together and creates a calmness that makes learning easier.
Physical Warm-up: Routine is critical to successful lessons, and since our lessons are centered around acting, we start by engaging our body from head to toe.
Vocal Warm-up: Furthering our routine as actors, we engage the voice with the goal of speaking clearly and distinctly. This is so important as we prepare for our oral reading fluency work.
Gretel & Hansel - Chapter 1: Each Play In A Book title is a five chapter story with a corresponding five act play. Each chapter/act focuses on specific diphthongs. Located in the reader, each act of the five act play is leveled to meet students as young readers. Level one is easy to memorize and contains a rhyming component. Level two is at grade level, and level three provides a challenge when needed. Working with scripts presents the perfect opportunity to engage in repeated readings, a critical step in supporting oral reading fluency.
Text ©2011 Laura St. John. Illustrations ©2011 Laura St. John Published by Play In A Book, a division of LMS Innovations, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher, except for brief quotations or critical reviews. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011908933. ISBN: 978-0-9836896-0-7 Layout, design, and graphics by Marlon St. John
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