Day 1
A Day’s Work
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Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator: Ronald Himler
Skill: Character and Visualization
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Question of the Week
When is a solution the wrong solution?
Read Aloud
Objective:
• Build vocabulary by finding words related to the
lesson concept.
• Listen and visualize.
Read Aloud
Listen how I change my voice for each character as I read
“The Honest to Goodness Truth” (p. 174m in the
teacher’s manual.)
• What do you think Libby's face must have looked
like when her mother caught her in her lie?
• Libby decided to tell the truth about everything.
What was one effect of her decision?
Vocabulary Concept Web
Right and Wrong
• Let’s read the sentence with the word certainty again.
Pronounce certainty. What does it mean?
• Certainty means freedom from doubt, or being sure.
• Let’s place certainty in an oval attached to Telling the
Truth. Certainty is related to this concept.
Vocabulary Concept Web
Right and Wrong
• Let’s read the sentences in which honestly
appears. Pronounce the word honestly.
• Honestly means ‘in a truthful way.’
Vocabulary Concept Web
Right and Wrong
• Let’s read the sentences in which victims
appears. Pronounce the word victims.
• Victims are people who are treated badly or taken
advantage of.
Comprehension Skill/Strategy Lesson
Objectives:
• Understand character.
• Visualize to understand character.
Comprehension Skill/Strategy Lesson
• What are your favorite stories? Who are the
people in the story?
• We call those people in the story ‘characters.’
• Let’s make a list on the board of the stories,
characters, and one or two words to describe
each character.
Comprehension Skill/Strategy Lesson
• Read page 174 in a whisper voice.
• What a character says and does helps us
understand what the character is like. It also
helps us understand the story better and predict
what will happen later in the story.
Comprehension Skill- Visualize
• Active readers make pictures in their minds of
what they are reading.
• When you read how a character acts, picture it.
• When you read what a character says, hear it.
• Visualizing will help you understand what the
character is like.
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Build Background
• Let’s make a t-chart about gardening. Help me
think of things to add to the chart
Gardening
Things a gardener should do
Things a gardener should not do
Lesson Vocabulary
Words to Know
•excitement
•gardener
•motioned
•sadness
•shivered
•shocked
•slammed
More Words to Know
•convinced
•coarse
excitement
a condition of having strong, lively
feelings about something that you like
gardener
someone employed to take care of a
garden or lawn
motioned
made a movement, as of the hand or head,
to get someone to do something
sadness
unhappiness; sorrow
shivered
shook with cold, fear, or
excitement
shocked
caused to feel surprise, horror, or
disgust
slammed
threw or hit something with great
force
Small Group
• Read the leveled readers
Fluency
• I will reread part of "The Honest-to-Goodness
Truth" on p. 174m. I’ll read as if I am Libby and
show emotions as I read the selection.
Grammar
Day 1
1. White benchs sat in the middel of the garden.
White benches sat in the middle of the garden.
2. Many colorful rose grow their.
Many colorful roses grow there.
Reading-Grammar Connection
The driver held up three fingers.
Driver is a singular noun. It names one person, place, or
thing.
What kind of noun names one person, place or thing?
Fingers is a plural noun. It names more than one.
What kind of noun names MORE THAN ONE person,
place, or thing?
Spelling
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Pre-Test