Chapter Books, First Two Weeks

I try to read these smaller chapter books in a week so I show the students how to chunk.  Take the number of pages and divide by 5.  This is how many pages I need to read each day to finish.  I am taking longer than my week and not meeting the goal, so what can I do?  So I will model next week finding those extra moments to squeeze in a page or two.

Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom

Cam Jansen and the Missing Tennis Trophy

We do turn and talks with random students.  Next week, the third week, we will have assigned read aloud partners (not ability paired) and students will sit in the same spot.  A turn and talk is when the pairs turn to each other in response to a prompt the teacher gives in the middle of the read aloud and sit eye to eye and knee to knee.  The students then talk as the teacher mills among them listening in to their conversation.