Stop and Jot!

Use this interactive activity to help students learn blends and digraphs and the active reading strategy stop and jot! This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Sticky Reading Comprehension lesson plan.

Grade

First Grade

Second Grade

Subject

Reading & Writing

English Learner

English Learner Prelessons

View aligned standards

TX ELP c3B

NY NLAP RL.2:RL.2.2

RL.1.2

RL.2.2

CA ELD.PI.2.6

This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Sticky Reading Comprehension lesson plan.

Objectives

Academic

Students will be able to retell a text, including key details.

Language

Students will be able to identify blends and digraphs and retell a text, including key details, using the stop and jot technique.

Introduction

(2minutes)

Write Student-Facing Language Objectives Reference

Explain to students that today they will be learning about blends and digraphs and using the stop and jot active reading strategy to understand and remember details after reading a new short story.
Remind students that good readers comprehend what they are reading. Call on a few volunteers to explain what the word comprehension means. Clarify thatcomprehensionmeans, "I understand what I read."
Ask students to stand up and repeat the following chant with movement:
- Comprehension means I understand (touch head) what I read!