In this interactive read-aloud lesson, ELs listen carefully as they learn about a pigeon who doesn't want to take a bath! Students will practice their reading comprehension skills while rolling in laughter. It can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Reading Round Up!
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Reading Round Up! lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to demonstrate reading comprehension through completion of reflection activities.
Language
Students will be able to retell a story with details from the text using visual supports.
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Gather the class together and ask students if they have ever gotten really, really dirty. Utilize the vocabulary cards for language support as needed.
Have students pair-share what they needed to do in order to get clean ("Take a bath," "Wash," etc.).
Ask the class to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to share how they feel about taking a bath. Then ask a few students to share out with the group their reasoning using the sentence frame: "I like/don't like taking a bath because..."
Explain that today you will be reading a story about a bird who gets really dirty and doesn't want to take a bath.