5-Day Lesson Plan

“Rhino was grouchy and grumpy all the time. How rude!
Will Rhino ever snap out of his grumpy mood?”
Shared reading is a collaborative reading experience that allows all students to participate in reading grade-level texts with fluency and confidence.
This unique approach engages even the most reluctant readers in lively, fast-paced lessons that build the reservoir of language and skills that are essential for reading and writing success.
Grumpy Rhino also offers authentic, embedded support for social-emotional learning with a storyline that helps children recognize and build the key competencies of teamwork, sharing, gratitude, managing emotions, and recognizing social supports.
A five-day lesson plan and teaching panels built into every book help teachers take advantage of every opportunity to support comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics skills, and social-emotional learning by focusing on a different literacy strand each day.
DAY 1 |
Read the text aloud and use authentic, text-based discussion to support comprehension, oral language, and social-emotional learning. Sample prompts:
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DAY 2 |
Reread the text and work with engaging and challenging vocabulary from the text. For example:
Other focus words, phrases, and idioms in the book include thumped, charged, how rude, snap out of, grumpy mood, smack, whack, roared, cool it, squeaked, gnawed. |
DAY 3 |
Reread the text with students, pointing out clues that can help them read with fluency. Sample prompts:
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DAY 4 |
Reread the story together and reinforce phonemic awareness and phonics skills in the context of reading. Sample prompts:
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DAY 5 |
Reread the story together and give every student an opportunity to practice oral, written, and visual language by responding to the text. Sample prompts:
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Grumpy Rhino is part of the Grade 1 Whole-Class Resources kit but can be enjoyed by children and teachers of all ages!
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