Give Probability A Chance By Thomas Adamson

The book I read aloud to my math support class was “Give Probability a Chance!” by Thomas K. Adamson and Heather Adamson. The reason I chose this book is because it supports the content and has a reading level of first grade. My plan was to have students go back and read this book alone so the reading level was important. The students in this class are ninth graders who are constantly being given readings that are too high. I wanted a book that truly supported the content of class and allowed them access to reading comprehension when they reread. This is part of giving the EL students an equitable education. Student need reading at their own level so they understand, grow, and become confident readers (Glasswell & Ford, 2013). If a teacher

This was my biggest struggle for the read aloud and in finding leveled text. Since I have level one and two students, I often struggling in finding age appropriate texts that fit their reading level. I often have to reword or give too juvenile text to them. Luckily with this reading there were three specific parts in the book where students found connections. These parts were when the girl was celebrating a birthday, playing with friends at a park, and playing a dice game. All students had all celebrated a birthday in a similar way with a party and friends/family. When we got to the part of the book where the children were playing in the park, the students brought up stories of how they play in the park. We had a discussion of how the girl is waiting her turn. A male student in the class spoke about pushing his friend down the slide instead of waiting his turn. The last part they connected to was the dice game. The previous week students completed a dice activity in class. One student asked if this is where I had the idea for the activity. They had liked the dice activity and were excited to see a dice activity in the

They shared out their answers as I wrote them on the board. This was to get them thinking and use their notes from the previous day. This helped me assess were they were in relation to understand probability and how to guide my questions during the reading. As I started the book, I asked what does the title tell us about the book, how are chance and probability related and why they choose the book cover for this book. The students did not know how chance and probability were related so I explained what chance meant and its relation to probability. Four out of the six students were able to tell the class a coin has two sides, you can land on hands or tails. The students who answered are higher in language and