Anna Connors

Shared Reading Plan

Introduction:
“Look Out, Mouse!” by Steve Bjorkman is about animals on a farm. It is dinnertime on

Farmer Fred’s farm but he forgot to feed his horse. The mouse was trying to help the horse and

while he was eating he gets disturbed by predators. He is able to avoid them, but they make a lot

of noise with the sounds of the horse, fox, owl, cat, and many more animals. All the noise wakes

up Farmer Fred!

This book has repetition which helps with comprehension for the students. This book

works for shared reading because it helps with the importance of concepts of print, alphabet

knowledge, phonological awareness through rhyming, phonemic awareness, sight word, analogy

words, and phonics. Sight words in this story are words such as look, out, and the. This book

helps with learning short and long vowel sounds because most of the words include the same

vowels, yet they sound different

Day 1- Concepts of print/alphabet knowledge

RF.1.1. Demonstrate mastery of the organization and basic features of print including those listed
under Kindergarten foundation skills.
In order for students to be able to know organization and features of print together as a

class we did a worksheet. The worksheet was twinkle twinkle little star. Each student received a

worksheet in front of them. The teacher walked around the classroom while telling the students

to circle a word, underline a sentence, cross out a letter, etc. The teacher is able to circle around

the room to really find out what students do and do not know about concepts of print.

Day 2- Phonological awareness

RF.1.2. Demonstrate mastery of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes) by using
knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a
printed word.
This activity is usually done by using the student’s names in the classroom, it is called

clapping names. This book involves farm animals. To teach students syllables the teacher will

say one of the animals from the book while clapping to the syllables. First the teacher will

demonstrate with the word mouse, which has 1 syllable. Other words the teacher will do with the

students are words such as: horse, cat, snake, weasel, and chicken. After the students have

determined the number of syllables they can now place their hand under their chins to feel the

drop of their chin for the syllables.

Day 3- sight words

The book the students are working with is short enough to make printed copies for every

student. The teacher will hand out the print out of the book to each student. Each student will

then have to go through the pages and put a box around any sight word they see. Each student

will be assigned a page that they are responsible for telling the class about.

Day 4- Analogizing words

RF.1.4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
two letter words: at, to
Three letter words: cat, rat, bat, owl, fox, dog
After students read the book as a class with the teacher the students will receive a

worksheet sentence word scramble. The students will receive 10 letters. The teacher will stand in

the front of the classroom and show pictures of animals that the students will then make the

words. Students will chunk the letters together to form the words. After the students form the

words they will then fill them in on the sentence worksheet to form the sentence that goes with
the picture of the book shown. Students will be able to gain fluency of reading and words as well

as comprehension of the book.

Day 5- Phonics
RF.1.3. Know and apply grade -level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Students will be able to decipher long and short sounds with the major vowels. In this

activity all the students are to begin standing. The teacher will draw a picture on the board or

show a picture. The first student to raise their hand will get to answer. They have to either say

the beginning or ending sound of the word that the picture represents. After the student answers

they can sit down and choose a row to sit down. Once there are no more rows to sit down it will

go to choosing individual people to sit down until you have no more students standing.