Six Weeks __1st__

Date: _____WEEK ONE___________

Weekly Lesson Plan

Story: "Because of Winn Dixie"

Skills Covered: Context Clues (vocabulary), Predicting Day One:
Back to School Activities - Stay in homeroom all day

STAAR Standards

Skill(s)

Day Two:
1. Have each student write a letter to themselves about their thoughts and feelings that they will open on the last day of school. 2. Set up reading folders 3. MYSTERY BOX activity - Bring in a box containing 10 items from the book Because of Winn Dixie and have the students write predictions in their novel packet about how each item relates to the story.

STAAR Standards 6A (RS)

Skill(s) Predicting Reading Fluency

Day Three:
1. Introduce Kate DeCamillo using power point. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/113954/Kate-DiCamillo-Power-Point 2. Read chapters 1-3 orally. Write titles for each chapter on the table of contents in their novel packet.

STAAR Standards

Skill(s)

Day Four:
1. Mini Lesson on context clues using power point. 2. Listen to chapters 4-7. 3. Complete "Context Clues" activities in novel packet.

STAAR Standards 2B (RS)

Skill(s) Context Clues Listening Skills Synonyms Antonyms Suffixes

Day Five:
1. ASSESSMENT: Complete quiz over chapters 1-7 in novel packet. 2. Each student will write 10 "thick" questions to ask their partner. They will then interview their partner and write the answers to the questions in their novel packet.

STAAR Standards

Skill(s) Comprehension Interviewing

Six Weeks __1st__

Date: _____WEEK TWO___________

Weekly Lesson Plan

Story: "Because of Winn Dixie"

Skills Covered: Character Traits, Text Structures and Organization Day Six:
Labor Day Holiday - NO SCHOOL

STAAR Standards

Skill(s)

Day Seven:
1. Using the responses from their partner, each student will create a newspaper article that tells about the 10 things they learned about their partner. 2. Students will then draw and color a picture of their partner in the empty box of the article and decorate a person to go with it.

STAAR Standards

Skill(s) Paragraph Writing

Day Eight:
1. Mini-Lesson on character traits. 2. Read chapters 8-9 orally or with partners and complete "Character Traits" in novel packet by choosing four characters from the novel, listing their character traits, and writing text evidence to support those traits.

STAAR Standards Skill(s) 3B (SS) Character Analysis 6B (RS)

Day Nine:
1. Mini-Lesson on text structures using power point. 2. Listen to chapters 10-11 and complete "Text Structures" in novel packet.

STAAR Standards 11C (SS)

Skill(s) Text Structures and Organization

Day Ten:
1. Read chapters 12-15. 2. ASSESSMENT: Have students complete quiz over chapters 8-15,

STAAR Standards

Skill(s) Comprehension Start novel Because of Winn Dixie

Six Weeks __1st__

Date: _____WEEK TWO___________

Weekly Lesson Plan

Start novel use of Winn Dixie

Six Weeks __1st__

Date: _____WEEK THREE___________

Weekly Lesson Plan

Story: "Because of Winn Dixie"

Skills Covered: Prefixes, Suffixes, Latin/Greek Roots, Theme, Summarization Day Eleven:
1. Mini-Lesson on prefixes, suffixes and Latin/Greek Roots. 2. Listen to chapters 16-18. 3. Complete "Littmus Lozenge Roots" in novel packet.

STAAR Standards 2B (RS)

Skill(s) Prefixes Suffixes Latin/Greek Roots

Day Twelve:
1. Read chapters 19-21. 2. CATCH UP DAY/LIBRARY DAY

STAAR Standards

Skill(s)

Day Thirteen:
1. Mini-Lesson on theme. 2. Listen to chapters 22-24. 3. Complete "What's the Big Idea?" in novel packet.

STAAR Standards 3A (SS)

Skill(s) Theme

Day Fourteen:
1. Mini-Lesson on summarization. 2. Finish reading chapters 25-26. 3. Complete SWBST "Organizer for Summarizing" in novel packet and write one paragraph summary of Because of Winn Dixie.

STAAR Standards 11A (RS) 19E (RS)

Skill(s) Summarization

Day Fifteen:
1. Watch movie and compare and contrast it with the book.

STAAR Standards 3B (SS)

Skill(s) Compare and Contrast