Please make your new vocabulary
chart
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decisions
gruff
stubborn
awful
(This is a one day story)
Title: The Ant and the Bear
Reading Goal: Characterization
Team Cooperation Goal: Everyone
Participates
Genre: Pourquoi tale
Author: Chief Lelooska
Pourquoi Tale
Pourquoi tales explain how things in
nature came to be. Often they are
handed down from parents to
children until they are finally written
down.
decisions: choices
Before making decisions, it is best to
have all the information you can find.
gruff:
Rough, scratchy
When Grandfather wakes up in the
morning, his voice is always gruff.
stubborn:
Strong willed
Pearl is very stubborn when we play
games, and everyone must play by her
rules or go home.
awful:
terrible
My little brother ate the mud pie
he made and said it tasted awful.
Reading Goal: Characterization
How the author
creates
characters
through their
actions, their
thoughts, and what
they say.
What kind of character is Carl?
This is a good skill to have in real life to because we can better understand
people by paying attention to what they say and do.
Frederick was different from the other kids at his school. He didn’t
like sports. He didn’t like watching television. He didn’t really talk a
lot to the other kinds, even when they asked him questions. Usually
Frederick would say “yes” or “no” if somebody asked him something,
and that was all.
Frederick was always looking at things. He would stare at a plant or
a cloud or a bird like there was nothing else in the world. Once on
the playground a soccer ball got away from some kids and hit
Frederick while he was staring at a big shiny bottle on a fence post.
Frederick didn’t even move.
In art class that day, Ms. Thompson asked everyone to draw
something from memory. “I want you to use only a pencil and try to
draw something we don’t have here in front of us. Just picture it in
your head and try to draw it.” Many of the students had a hard time
making their drawings, and most of them had to tell Ms. Thompson
what their drawing was supposed to be.
Frederick drew the beetle on the fence post, and it looked real. Ms.
Thompson told Frederick he should be very proud, but Frederick
was already staring at the pencil sharpener. The next day he brought
it in his art homework, and it was a perfect drawing of the pencil
sharpener.
Team Talk
Let’s preview the questions on
page 131of your treasure
hunt.
Partner Read 15 minutes
Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or
unfamiliar to you on pages 334-337
Partner Read p. A:335-336 (paragraph 2)
B: 336 (paragraph 3) - 337
Restate page B:335-336 and A:336-337
Fill in your story map together
Discuss with team words you clarified
 Find vocabulary words
Team Discussion
• Pass out Team Discussion Cards
• Discuss answers to team talk questions
• Write answers to question 1 and 3
Class Discussion
• What are some of the words you clarified?
• Answer questions 1-4
Adventures in Writing 15 min
Treasure hunt page 130
Vocabulary Practice
Treasure Hunt Page 131
Fluency
• Pg 335, paragraphs 1-2
5 min