CO #3 - Brad Charlassier

My 3rd Class Observation was with Ryan Flemming's Level 3 Reading class. Professor Flemming introduced me to the class as well as his assistant who is an intern and soon to be teacher. In this class they listen to an audio recording and read along with it. Before they listen, they review some of the vocabulary they are about to read in the book. This was their extensive reading for the day. The book they were reading was Hatchet. I had read Hatchet when I was in school in the 5th grade. Hearing the book read to me while I sat in that class made me feel like I had really gone full circle. I still do not like Hatchet. At the end of the chapter, the class goes over any vocabulary they did not understand while they were reading the chapter. After finishing their review of the chapter they moved onto reading an article. This article was their intensive reading for the day. Again, they reviewed the vocab they were going to see in this article before they began their reading. For this article, their vocabulary is color coded by difficulty. As the students read the article independently, they underline the vocab words as they find them. He sets a time limit for this reading so that they do not spend too much time on it. He then has his students work together and discuss the vocab from the article.