The lesson outlined below went quite well last night. I did make a few changes which I will describe here. Students commented that it was interesting and that they understood the article with my scaffolding. So that was WONDERFUL! The area where I made my change was after we did the Read Aloud. It was getting late, people were tired and I did not want them to read the article in groups or individuals for fear of losing them. I also did not do the quiz. They had only been in class for two days and the reading was really much much higher than their level. So this is how it was adapted. After doing a read aloud with me. We did a choral reading. As we came across the words on the vocabulary list, we decided as a group what a good definition would be in English. For some words like rubber raft and air mattress, we made silly drawings. Next I ask each student to highlight one sentence that they liked. We talked about why they might like a sentence such as a new fact, something they learned, a new vocabulary word, etc. I then had them copy the sentence on an index card which they handed into me. I used these cards to create a dictation. During the read aloud we talked about how many people live in Houston and compared it to LA. We found out that LA is about twice the size of Houston. We talked about why the mayor did not want people to leave. The visual I gave the class is by asking them how is the parking lot when they leave class on time. They told me the parking lot had a long line of cars. I said hmmmm..There are maybe 200 people leaving. What would happen if 2 million tried to leave. We also talked about the fatalities and casualties. The article we read said there were 2. I knew the article was old and that there were more. What was interesting is that I found different numbers on every spot we traveled to on the Internet. So we just decided it was around 20. Next we looked a the number of Katrina casualties. There were over 1000. We talked about possible causes and reasons. That was it. The class was over. We had a big round of applause for being able to read a newspaper article on day 3. I took some pictures of students highlighting and will share them here.
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