Analysis: The Boy Who Invented TV

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Readability of text: The grade level I chose is fifth, and the material comes from McGraw-Hill’s Reading Wonders. “The Boy Who Invented TV” by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by Greg Couch is the text I used to apply Fry’s Readability Formula. The Lexile Text Complexity Range is set at 860 and the Text Evaluator is at 38 for this particular story. “The Boy Who Invented TV” was an appropriate biography for fifth grade, however I was surprised to use the Fry’s Readability Formula and find that it was actually graphed at an upper seventh grade level. After doing this readability I have a newfound understanding as to why students, especially lower level, can really struggle with the text found in their books. It is much more evident that after reading …show more content…

The lesson covers various sounds of the vowel “u” including “oo”, “ew”, “ou”, “ue”, and “ui”. This phonics lesson is broken down into explaining, modeling, and guided practice. Explaining includes telling students a vowel sound can be spelled several different ways, and then listing sounds on the board with an example of each spelling. Modeling consists of writing examples of the different spellings, underlining the vowel sound, and model blending the word. Guided Practice is writing several more examples and asking the students to underline the letter or letters that spell the vowel sound. Finally have the students sort the words by their vowel sounds. Students should be able to group the list under labels such as: music, hook, and …show more content…

The topic is homographs taught by explaining, modeling, and guided practice. This particular lesson has students collaborating in close reading and in pairs. Explaining uses various examples like bow (to bend forward), bow (a knot with two loops), and bow (the front of a boat). The teacher explains using sentence clues and other words to decipher meaning. Modeling uses the actual text picking out a word that is a homograph and showing students how you found out the true meaning, then students pick another word that has a multiple meaning from the text and what its correct meaning is supposed to be. Students then go on to work in pairs for guided practice determining the meaning of several more words, discussing sentence

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