Read Aloud 1

Skill: Gain information from an article

Learning GoalI can gain information from reading an article
Learning ObjectiveRead an article to gain information.

Lesson Resources

Student Resources

Vocabulary Words
Word cards
Follow the Leaders!
Book

Instructional Routine

Introduction

Say: What is a leader?

Show students some or the entire Video: What is a Leader? Talk with students about how the children in this video talked about what makes someone a leader, like being very nice. Some of the children defined being a leader as someone people follow and that tells people what to do. Talk with students about leaders they know in their lives and how they interact with them.

Before Reading

  1. Introduce the Topic Words: class, help, governor, leader, mayor, parent, president, school and teacher
  2. Display Follow the Leaders! Read the title and names of the author(s) and illustrator(s).
  3. Do a picture walk (preview the cover and the illustrations). Have students predict what they think the book may be about. Point to the illustrations of the leaders.
  4. Say: I can see people leading in schools, towns, the country and at home. I think this book is about different leaders and what they do.
  5. Introduce the Learning Goal:
  6. Say: Today, your goal is to identify one leader from the text

During Reading

Think aloud as you model.

Model Fluent Reading

  1. Read the story aloud with fluency and expression
  2. Emphasize the phrases that tell about leaders by raising your voice as you read where or what they lead.

Model Using Text to Comprehend

  1. As you read, think aloud about how the illustrations help you know one leader in the text.
  2. Page 3: Say: The text says that teachers are leaders in my classroom. I can see the teachers in the picture teaching about classroom rules. One leader in the text is a teacher.
  3. Model using the text and illustrations to comprehend by thinking aloud about examples on other pages.

After Reading

  1. Revisit the learning goal with the students.
  2. Say: Who is one leader in the text?

Level 3

Have the student independently identify and describe one leader in the text. Provide prompts as needed, such as, "Who is a leader in the classroom? Who is a leader of a city?”

Can the student identify and describe one leader in the text? How?

Level 2

Have the student identify one leader from the text by completing oral sentence frames: The leader of a classroom is __. or A leader from the text is __. Picture supports such as the Communication Board may be used as needed.

Can the student identify one leader in the text? How? What support was needed?

Level 1

Have the student complete the oral sentence frame from Level 2 by making a selection from a narrowed field or errorless choice(s).

Can the student identify one leader in the text? How? What support was needed?

  1. Continue the discussion by talking with students about other leaders they know in their lives

Wrap Up

Writing Follow-up

Provide students an opportunity to write about what they read, using words from the story. Provide students with alternate pencils, sentence starters or sentence frames and other supports as needed.

Say: Write about one leader you know in your life. Describe what they lead and how they treat people.

Extend

Play the game ‘Follow the Leader.’ Pick one leader each turn. Have other students line up behind that leader. The leader then moves around, in whatever way they can, and all the players have to mimic the leader’s actions.