Cookie's Week Guided Reading Lesson

What’s in the grocery bag? What do you predict? What do you think or anticipate would be a grocery bag? Do you think clothes? Food? Books? What kind of good do you predict? When we make predictions, we have to use what makes sense. We need to think about what evidence is available to make predictions. Turn and Talk to a partner.
Cookies!
What’s in the SHOPPING bag? What do you predict? What would you buy? Remember to anticipate with what you know and see.
A winter hat and scarf!

Today we are going to read a book called Cookie’s Week. What predictions are you making while you read? Look at the words. Look at the pictures. Think about what you know.
Prediction: Readers think ahead about where the text is going. Readers think about what the text may tell them.
Your job today during reading today is to think about What did Cookie do? What happened because of his action? What day did this action happen? (The chart is labeled: Days of week; Where’s Cookie? What happened?)
Students are reading and thinking.
Teacher is guiding thinking and recording the students thinking on the chart.

Students discussing predictions.
Students reading and discussing predictions.
Teacher recording students thinking and predictions.
After reading, the students predict what Cookie will do on Sunday.
This student wrote, ” I think the Cookie will make a messy.”

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