Student Instructions
Starting Directions: 1. Select a poem to practice this week. 2. Take a picture of your poem. (If it is a long poem, show the beginning part.) 3. Type the title and author of the poem that you have selected. 4. Record your self reading the poem. 5. For now, do not work on page 2. 6. Click the to add to your journal. Practice reading your poem for 5 minutes each day. This assignment will be returned to you as a draft when it is time to finish. Ending Directions: 1. Do not change page 1. 2. On page 2, move the orange boxes into the big blue box to tell which strategies were most helpful to you for improving your fluency. Delete the strategies that were not helpful to you. 3. Record your self reading the poem. 4. Click the to add to your journal.
I use this activity with Lucy Calkins' Grade 2 Units of Study for Teaching Reading Unit 3: Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power.