Wolfpack Readers Tutoring Lesson for Session #___

Date: Mon, Oct. 9 Teachers: Inquiry topic:

Callae E. Sea Animals
Student: Giovanni Carolina M.

Word Work Word Building: 21- R-controlled vowels er/ir

~8 minutes l,e,a,r,n,m,i,t,h,s,w,v

Word Sorting: all of the above

Word Writing: very, term, dirt, thirst

He did very well with this word work

Disciplinary Inquiry Introduce/review the inquiry topic: Marine life- Marine Scientist
Introduction
~3 minutes Discuss a little what we learned last week and predict what we will be learning this week. Today we
will read about the Trench Zone- Same book: Life in the Ocean

Giovanni remembered in detail information that we had read last session. He is very enthusiastic
about this topic.

Fluency Title and level (lexile range) of the fluency text:

~8 minutes
“Life in the Ocean” part 3 from Readworks.com 600-700; 87 words
-emphasis on phrasing, expression and word endings

Giovanni’s fluency has improved tremendously. He is reading through words and not leaving off
endings. He is also self correcting his pace and getting his tone ready to end a sentence.

Vocabulary High-leverage words chosen from the text:

Previewing/Reviewing 1. Surface
~5 minutes
 2. Dim

Scaffolded Strategic Text and page #s: Continue reading “Life in the Ocean” by George Huxley page # 18
Reading and Discussion Predict what the text will be about
~20 minutes Read 1st page and revisit prediction/summarize.
Notice how book is broken into the ocean zones with info. On each of these zones.
Read zone by zone, summarizing after each.
Predict before beginning new zone.
Read- Trench Zone

Information in this text was in disagreement from the information in the fluency passage. Giovanni
noticed that while this text mentioned 4 ocean zones, the fluency passage tells us that there are 3.
Another disagreement was that the book mentions a fish called rattail in the last zone and the fluency
passage calls it ratfish. Giovanni pointed these disagreements out. He wrote these down in his
notebook for further research.

Written Word Work Uses, deeper, warmer, brighter, warmer, closer

~8 minutes

Inquiry Journaling Summarize in writing what was learned from today’s reading, Ocean Zones
~ 8 minutes Fill in vocabulary squares in notebook