I wanted to post the ‘little’ lesson I wrote for BAR or Reading Comprehension using the NP models and forms. This lessons supplements the Bible Study for that particular week so we used the leading idea and principle from the Bible Study for that week.
Principle: Eph 6:1-Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right
Leading Idea: Jesus submitted to and obeyed His parents, even though He was God’s son
Scripture: Luke 2:41-52
Memory verse: Matthew 5:16-Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Day1:
Read scripture
Copy memory verse
Define obedience on Word Map
Day 2:
Read scripture
Define antonym(grammar)
Identify antonym to obedience=disobedience
Read Deut 28, 4:40, Psalm 1 to compare/contrast consequences of obedience and disobedience.
Fill in T-chart with observations from scripture
Day 3:
Discuss how we let our light shine thru being obedient
Here is what my dd did for her reading comprehension assignment. I used the Noah Plan’s form for a word map from the Reading Guide(2nd edition). This guide is packed full of resources to use to teach reading and all that is included in reading…fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, phonemic awareness. It recommends the WRR for orthography and spelling.
The second day’s assignment was a T-chart that I used to introduce the concept of antonyms and to highlight the consequences of obedience and disobedience. This was based on the scriptures I used….u can adapt these to whatever scriptures you use and to the ages of your children and their ability to reason, etc.
I absolutely love the richness, thoroughness and the detail this reading guide goes into and the tools it gives u to teach reading. The only hitch for me is in the implementation of it. I only have so many hours in a day to do what needs to be done and I can’t implement ‘half’ of what I want to do, what is in my heart to do right now. So I’ll just do what I can. This is the first and ONLY BAR assigment I’ve written…prayerfully I’ll be able to write more..also, this lesson came spur of the moment. This was not in my plan. While we were on this particular Bible Study lesson I felt a prompting to do a little BAR or comprehension lesson on it. As you can see it was nothing “earth shattering” but prayerfully God was able to use it to re-inforce and solidify and “imprint His laws” on my child’s heart!! If so then this simple lesson made a difference in my child’s life…to God be all the Glory!!