Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon
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A lesson plan for grades K–2 English Language Arts
The teacher engages students in an activity to show them how to identify the main character in a text. While reading rebus versions of nursery rhymes online several times, students search for the main character. Following this activity, students identify popular nursery rhyme characters during a shared reading of the big book, The Enormous Watermelon. Teacher also presents students with high-frequency words to identify in the text. Students play a vocabulary matching game to integrate the words into their sight vocabulary.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
- generate the sounds from all the letters and appropriate letter patterns which should include consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns.
- use phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
- recognize many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., have said, where, two).
- read compound words and contractions.
- read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., looks, looked, looking).
- read appropriate word families.
- Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
Grade 2
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.02: Read most high frequency and many irregularly spelled words accurately in text.
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
- Objective 1.03: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
- recognize and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
- recognize some words by sight including a few common words, own name, and environmental print such as signs, labels, and trademarks.
- recognize most beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one-syllable words.
- Objective 1.03: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
