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**READ 7263 Tutoring Lesson Plan Number 4** **Tutor** Brittney Burns **Student First Name** Desmond “Alexander” **Grade Level** 7th Grade **Instructional Reading Level Narrative:** Sixth **Instructional Reading Level Expository:** Sixth **Instructional Focus for Tutoring:** Fluency Improvement and Using Real World Technology Resources for Reading in addition to hard copy resources **Guided ReadingText and author:** The Coolest Game Passage **Reading Level of the text**: Seventh Grade **Teacher READ ALOUD:** Teacher will read an article written by a blogger, Teresa McEntire about the 10 Benefits of Playing Sports. Resource can be found at: http://parenting.families.com/blog/10-benefits-of-playing-sports# ** 10 Benefits of Playing Sports ** by [|Teresa McEntire] | [|More from this Blogger]

 Playing sports offers children more than just physical benefits. Sports typically help kids academically and socially as well. The benefits are the same whether or not your child actually excels at the sport. Although if they are really good they will probably want to continue playing when they are older. If your child isn't good enough to play competitively on a school team try signing them up for a city league or encourage them to just go shoot some hoops with their friends or church group. Read on for ten ways playing sports and can benefit your child.

1. Playing sports is fun. It gives your child something to do and a group to belong to. They have a group of friends that has the same goals and interests.  2. Research has found that kids that play sports, especially girls, are more likely to have a positive body image and higher self-esteem. They also are less likely to be overweight. 3. Kids involved in sports are less likely to take drugs or smoke because they realize the impact that these destructive activities can have upon their performance. Girls who play sports are also less likely to become pregnant. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. Physical activities are a good way to relieve stress and reduce depression. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 5. Sports help kids develop discipline. They learn to set goals and then work to achieve those goals. They learn that by working hard they can accomplish the things that they want to in their lives. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">6. Kids who play sports quickly learn that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. They learn to be a good sport in both situations. It also helps them learn to deal with disappointment and go on. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 7. Statistics show that kids who are involved in sports while in high school are more likely to experience academic success and graduate from high school. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8. Sports help develop teamwork and leadership skills. Kids quickly learn that they have to work together as a team to win the game. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9. Motor skills, strategic thinking, and even math skills are learned by playing sports. Students develop strategic thinking as they figure out plays and the best way to get around a player or score a goal. Math skills are used as they calculate scores and stats. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10. Regular exercise increases quality of life. Children who exercise are more likely to continue the practice into adulthood.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Standard** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ELA6R3 The student reads aloud, accurately (in the range of 95%), familiar** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**material in a variety of genres, in a way that makes meaning clear to listeners.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**The student** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Uses self-correction when subsequent reading indicates an earlier miscue <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. Reads with a rhythm, flow, and meter that sounds like everyday speech <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(prosody). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Specific Reading Strategies identified in lesson:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Fluency strategies**//:// The student will be able to improve their fluency using the following strategies. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Paired Reading <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Repeated Reading

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Before Reading:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**During Reading:**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Teacher Read Aloud:** See above for teacher read aloud.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Interview Questions:** Discuss with student the current NBA Lockout and ask their opinions. Ask the student who is their favorite current NBA star. Student should develop 6 interview questions to ask their favorite NBA star regarding the NBA Lockout.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Paired Reading:** Student will read an article written by // ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein and The Associated Press // entitled “For NBA players, check's not in the mail” which can be found at [] using the Paired Reading strategy where the student will read aloud with the tutor.
 * 2) After given a signal by the student, the tutor will stop reading while the student continues on.
 * 3) Say to the student, “Now we are going to read aloud together for a little while. Whenever you want to read alone, just tap the back of my hand like this [demonstrate] and I will stop reading. If you come to a word you don’t know, I will tell you the word and begin reading with you again.”
 * 4) When the student makes an error, the tutor will resume reading with the student.
 * 5) If, while reading alone, the child either commits a reading error, skips a word or line, or hesitates for longer than 5 seconds, point to the error-word and pronounce it. Then tell the student to say the word. When the student pronounces the error-word correctly, begin reading aloud again in unison with the student.
 * 6) Continue reading aloud with the student until he or she again signals to read alone.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**After Reading:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**P.S. Writing Assignment:** Student will write an epilogue of what they think will happen next to the NBA players 2011-2012 Basketball Season <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Fluency Assessment:** The Fluency Assessment will be given using the Repeated Reading Procedure. The passage selected was “The Coolest Game”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Repeated Reading Procedure** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MPH (miscues per hundred words)=1 or 0 miscues per 100 words of text
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher selects a short passage (100-200) words which is of interest to the student and at his/her instructional reading level (Informal Reading Inventory samples are useful for this, since they have been assessed for readability level and the number of words is noted.)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The student reads the passage (sight unseen-no practice) orally into a tape recorder.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher directs the student to listen to the recording and to note any oral miscues (deviations from the printed text) by circling them in the script.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After counting the miscues and calculating the words per minute rate, the teacher enters these data on the repeated reading chart as Trial 1 (repeated reading chart is on CourseDen).
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The student rehearses the passage a few times, with the aid of the teacher or another student. During the rehearsal, the teacher should discuss the passage with the student and teach as necessary to ensure that misreading isn’t due to a lack of comprehension: Determine cause of miscues such as unknown words, unclear meanings, and observation of punctuation marks. A useful sequence for rehearsing the passage is: echo reading, neurological impress, choral reading. During the rehearsals, the teacher must encourage the student to read with vocal variety and expressiveness to match the meaning of the passage.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The student again reads the same passage into the tape recorder.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The student and the teacher listen to the re-reading, noting miscues and rate on the repeated reading chart as Trial 2.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Steps 2 through 7 are repeated until criterion levels for rate and number of miscues is reached. Criteria may vary slightly from student to student, but usually are at or near the following: WPM (words per minute)=rate of 100 WPR (or faster) and

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The student’s final reading should be fluent and expressive, as if the student were narrating the text in his own words. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher analyzes the results to plan instruction and determine what reading skills interfere with fluency.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: center;">The Coolest Game <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> Any game that’s played on a frozen surface is bound to be cool, but hockey is cool in the other sense of the word. It’s an exciting game played at lightning speed by two teams that consist of six players each. A team wins a hockey game by scoring more goals than its opponents. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> The players use wooden sticks that curve at the bottom to move a rubber disk called a puck across the ice and into a net to score a goal. One player on each team serves as a goalie and is responsible for protecting the team’s goal. Players wear padded uniforms and helmets, mouth guards, and ice skates with blades specially made for the sport. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> In hockey, the action never stops. Referees and other officials monitor the action, while players keep the game moving and try to avoid penalties. A hockey rink is marked with red and blue lines and circles that show different playing zones. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> No one knows for certain exactly how hockey originated, but the game most likely developed as a version of “stick and ball” games played on land in Europe for hundreds of years. British soldiers in eastern Canada first began playing ice hockey in the middle of the nineteenth century. By the end of the century, women had begun playing the sport, too. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> Hockey rules, mainly based on the game of rugby, were written in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The rubber ball originally used in the game evolved into a block of wood and later into a hard rubber disk known as a puck. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> Interest in the game of hockey spread quickly. With the invention of the first indoor rink of artificial ice, the sport caught <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">in the United States. Early in the twentieth century, professional teams and leagues were formed. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> Today there are professional teams all over the United States and the world. More people are playing and watching hockey than ever before. It’s fast, colorful, and thrilling. In other words, hockey is one of the coolest sports around!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Self Selected reading:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Student will be encouraged to select an article or “real life” reading source once a month and email it to the tutor. A Book Response worksheet was also given to the student for future reference. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Assessment of Objective:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The student will be able to improve their fluency which will be recorded and reviewed. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Reflection**//:// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The student was very excited about this lesson because he didn’t have to do a lot of writing! Plus everything from start to finish incorporated sports as the topic or subject. I went out of my way to try to find engaging lessons that would keep him motivated and interested during his tutoring session. This was a plus and worked to my advantage and benefited the student as well. He really like listening to himself read using the recording. However he did become intimated when we were playing back one of his recordings and someone walked into the room. He instantly asked for the recording to be turned off.