1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian`
Reading Comprehension Strategy: Check for Understanding

2. What class will look like today…
Review Learning Targets from yesterday
Quick Write
Quick Lesson on Making Predictions
Reading Comprehension Strategy: Check For Understanding
Exit Slip
Complete writing activity from yesterday and complete reading survey
Share your Shoes

3. Quick Write: Writer’s Notebook
Think about when you were a little boy or girl. In your writer’s notebook, write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. Is this still true today? If not, what is it now? Do the people closest to you encourage this dream? Are there any obstacles in the way of realizing that dream?
(5 min)

4. Learning Target
I will know the reading comprehension strategy, Check for Understanding and be able to demonstrate it with my reading.

5. Reading Comprehension Strategy - Making Predictions
Look at the front cover and inside flap Read the summary on the inside flap

8. Make some predictions

9. Check for Understanding
Have you ever read something then realized you can’t remember a thing?

10. Check For Understanding
Check for Understanding is a reading comprehension strategy that teaches you to stop frequently and see if you are understanding what you are reading.
Stop and ask yourself 2 questions- “Who is the story about?” and “What happened?”
If you can easily answer the two questions, keep reading.
If you cannot, you must go back and re-read.

11. Model Check For Understanding
Read aloud of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
We will stop at the end of each section/page and practice the strategy with you.

12. Exit slip –Literal Understanding
Whose diary are we reading?
Tell me what you know about this character after reading the first 2 chapters.