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A Story A StoryStorytelling

Objectives

• You will:• Practice recognizing synonyms• Practice recognizing the long /a/ spelling eigh• Practice recognizing the /g/ sound• Practice recognizing consonant blends• Use simple and compound sentences• Write a narrative

Word Knowledge Day 1• Furious angry enraged• What do these words have in common?• They are synonyms.• Game gold gust gate

gopher gutter• What do you notice about these words?• They have a /g/ sound followed by a vowel a, o, or u.• Weight vein eight sleigh• Do you see any patterns in these words? • They have the long /a/ sound spelled eigh or ei. • Stronger spun stories sticky slap• What do these words have in common?• They are from our selection and have consonant blends.

Word Knowledge Day 1• Ananse bowed and answered: “I shall gladly pay

the price.”• He kept them in a golden box next to his royal

stool.• Can you think of any synonyms for the word

gladly?• Happily, joyfully• Can you think of any synonyms for the word

kept?• Guarded, saved

Word Knowledge Day 1

• Mother held the horse’s rein as the horse pulled the sleigh.

• Do you see any words with a long /a/ sound?• Rein, sleigh• The spider spun a sticky web across the stronger

tree.• Do you see any words with a consonant blend?• Spider, spun, sticky, stronger

Build Background

• Do you remember any other folktales we have read?

• What do you know about storytelling?

• Have you ever heard an African folktale.

Background Information

• “A Story, A Story is an African folktale.• Many folktales have a central theme of

challenge and achievement.• In many African folktales defenseless

people or small animals outwit their stronger enemies.

• Ananse uses tricks to achieve his goals making this a “trickster” tale.

Prepare and PreviewReading 2.6

Clues

Ananse is very small can’t use strength to get stories.

• Wonderings• What is the price?

• Problems• Outwit• Defenseless• Decendants

• Let’s read the focus questions, title, author and illustrator together.

• Now let’s look at the first page or two to make predictions and look for any clues, problems or wonderings.

Vocabulary

.Let’s say our vocabulary word together.defenseless descendants tatter

flamboyant furious

A Story, A Storydefenseless

descendantstatter

flamboyantfurious

defenseless“Spider stories” tell how small, defenseless men or animals outwit others and succeed against great odds.

The hungry fox didn’t see the defenseless ducklings across the pond. They were lucky because they couldn’t have protected themselves.

Without protection; unguarded

descendants

Their descendants still tell some of these stories today.

Grandfather’s descendants all came to his birthday party, including his brand new grandchild.

children, grandchildren, and continuing generations of an original set of parents; those people sharing the same ancestors.

tatter

“Should you not fly into my calabash, so that the rain will not tatter your wings?”

We need to take down the flag before the strong winds tatter it into pieces.

tear, make ragged, rip

flamboyant

He set the little old doll at the foot of a flamboyant tree where fairies like to dance.

Her flamboyant clothes and rainbow colored hair attracted everyone’s attention.

overly colorful, showy appearance or behavior

furiousNow the fairy was stuck to the gum baby with both hands, and she was furious.

The man was furious when the passing car splashed mud on his suit.

very angry, violent

Investigation/Folktales Reading Trans. 32

• Anansi Goes Fishing• A Tale from West Africa • Foolish Anansi thought he could trick a fisherman into doing his work for him. "Let's go fishing," he

suggested. • "Very well," said the fisherman, who was clever and quite wise to Anansi's tricks. "I'll make the nets

and you can get tired for me." • "Wait," said Anansi, "I'll make the nets and you can get tired for me!" Anansi made nets as his

friend pretended to be tired. They caught four fish. • The fisherman said, "Anansi, you take these. I'll take tomorrow's catch. It might be bigger." • Greedily imagining the next day's catch, Anansi said, "No, you take these and I'll take tomorrow's

fish." • But the next day, the nets were rotting away and no fish were caught. The fisherman said, "Anansi,

take these rotten nets to market. You can sell them for much money." • When Anansi shouted, "Rotten nets for sale!" in the marketplace, people beat him with sticks. • "Some partner you are," Anansi said to the fisherman as he rubbed his bruises. "I took the

beatings. At least you could have taken the pain." • Anansi never tried to trick the fisherman again!

• • Let’s do page 111 of our Inquiry Journal.

Spelling PretestEng. Lang. Con. 1.8

• This week our spelling list is on consonant blends: spl-, spr-, str-,

• Words from this selection are:• Stronger, spun, stories, sticky, slap• Let’s take our spelling pretest.• Our vocabulary skill words this week are:

Frond, gourd, calabash, flamboyant, descendants

English Language ConventionsEng. Lang. Con. 1.4

• Sentence Structure• Let’s look in our Language Arts Handbook on

page 257 to learn about simple and compound sentences.

• I eat pizza.• I drink soda.• I eat and drink pizza and soda.• Now let’s do pages 128 and 129 in our

Comprehension and Language Arts Skills workbook.

Writing Process StrategiesLang. Arts. Tran. 1

• Writing a narrative fantasy

• We’re going to look on pages 114-115 of our Language Arts Handbook for information about writing a narrative, and pages 134-135 for information on writing a fantasy.

Writing

• Formal Assessment• The fantasy has a beginning, middle, and end. (2

points)• The ending makes sense with the rest of the

story. (2 points)• Elements of a fantasy are present. (3 points)• Spelling and punctuation are correct. (3 points)

Day 2 Developing Oral Language• Furious angry enraged• Game gold gust gate

gopher gutter• Weight vein eight sleigh• Stronger spun stories

sticky slap• Can someone use one of these words in a complete

sentence? Then, you will choose another student to make your sentence longer and add another word from the board in the sentence.

First Read pages 108-115

• We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies:

• Monitoring and clarifying

• Predicting

• Summarizing

Discussion Strategy Use

• How did you clarify confusing passages?

• Where did you pause in the reading to summarize?

• How did you make, confirm, and revise predictions as you read?

• What predictions did you make?

Discussing the selectionReading 2.6, 3.1, 3.2

• Let’s use handing off to answer these questions:• What features of the story reflect the fact that it is

an African folktale?• How did Ananse perform the impossible task

given to him by the sky good?• What did the sky god do in the end?• What does the story explain about storytelling?

Investigation

• Would anyone like to add anything to our concept board?

• Would anyone like to add to our question board?

SpellingEng. Lang. Conv. 1.8• Consonant Blends

• Consonant blends are groups of letters in which each letter’s sound can be heard.

• Do you hear the /s/, /p/, /l/ sounds in the word splash?

• What about the words splatter, and splint?

VocabularyReading 1.5, 1.7

• Next Ananse cut a frond from a banana tree and filled a calabash with water. (pg.111)

• What is a frond?• A frond is a type of leaf from a tree.• Let’s find the word frond in the dictionary.• The leaf of a fern or palm.• Now, let’s do pages 102 and 103 in our Spelling

and Vocabulary workbook for more practice with categories.

English Language ConventionsEng. Lang. Conv. 1.4

• Grammar: Simple and Compound Sentences• We are going to review our Language Arts Handbook page 257 for

conjunctions and punctuation in compound sentences.• Many folktales feature a trickster.• No comma needed.• Firefly cheated Ture but Ture tricked the prince.• Firefly cheated Ture, but Ture tricked the prince. Comma needed• Some fairy tales begin with “Once upon a time” or “In a land faraway.”• Some fairy tales begin with “Once upon a time,” or “In a land

faraway.” Comma needed• Let’s find 5 simple, and 5 compound sentences from “A Story, A

Story”

Writing Process StrategiesWriting 2.0, 2.1a• Writer's Craft: Setting• Setting includes time and place.• Mr. Tillman entered the classroom just before lunch.• Let’s look in our Language Arts Handbook on page 220

for more information on setting.• Now, let’s do pages 132- and 133 in our Comprehension

and Language Arts Skills workbook.• We are going to do page 82 of our Writer’s workbook to

help us write a setting for our fantasy story.

Word Knowledge Day 3• Furious angry enraged• What do these words have in common?• They are synonyms.• Game gold gust gate

gopher gutter• What do you notice about these words?• They have a /g/ sound followed by a vowel a, o, or u.• Weight vein eight sleigh• Do you see any patterns in these words? • They have the long /a/ sound spelled eigh or ei. • Stronger spun stories sticky slap• What do these words have in common?• They are from our selection and have consonant blends.

Word Knowledge Day 3• Ananse bowed and answered: “I shall gladly pay

the price.”• He kept them in a golden box next to his royal

stool.• Can you think of any synonyms for the word

gladly?• Happily, joyfully• Can you think of any synonyms for the word

kept?• Guarded, saved



• Do you see any words with a long /a/ sound?• Rein, sleigh• The spider spun a sticky web across the stronger

tree.• Do you see any words with a consonant blend?• Spider, spun, sticky, stronger

Second Read pages 108-115

• We are going to read our story again using this comprehension skills:

• Sequencing

Checking ComprehensionReading 2.3

• What does A Story A Story reveal about storytelling?• It explains how stories came to be in the world and how

they were passed along from one person to another.• How can you tell that Ananse thought that the stories

were valuable?• He was willing to pay the sky god’s price which was very

high.• Why do you think the narrator tells the reader to take his

story elsewhere?• The narrator wants his story to be shared with other

people.

Supporting the ReadingWriting 1.1a, 1.1b

• Plot Sequence• Ex. Ananse spun a web

up to the sky.

• Time-Order Words• Ex. So

• Sequence• Can anyone tell me a word that indicates sequence or a

time order word?• First, second, next, then, after, yesterday• Let’s look in our book for examples of time order words.

Supporting the ReadingWriting 1.1a, 1.1b

• Now we are going to do pages 126 and 127 in our Comprehension and Language Arts Skills Workbook to practice with sequence.

Investigation

• Generating Questions to Investigate

• Let’s do page 112 of our Inquiry Journal.

SpellingEng. Lang. Conv. 1.8• Consonant Blends• Let’s say: The spooky spider spun his web”• Do you notice that the beginning sounds of

some of the words sound the same. Repetition on beginning sounds is called alliteration.

• Now, let's do page 104 in our Spelling and Vocabulary workbook.

VocabularyReading 1.5, 1.7

• Levels of Specificity

• Gourd

• Calabash

• A calabash is a type of gourd, which is a kind of fruit.

Fruit

Gourd Apple

Calabash Macintiosh

English Language ConventionsEng. Lang. Conv. 1.4

• Grammar: Simple and Compound Sentences• We are going to look in our Language Arts Handbook on page 257 to

review simple and compound sentences.• Let’s use one of these words to help us combine these sentences:

and, or, but• Aunt Leona uses a cane. She supports herself with it when she

walks.• And• The fireworks display had started. We did not go.• But• I left my basketball at Freddie’s house. I left my basketball at the

court.• Or

Writing Process StrategiesWriting 1.1, 2.1b

• We are going to look on page 83 for ideas about drafting a fantasy story.

• The first sentences of your story should “hook” the reader.

• Let’s draft our fantasy stories.


• Furious angry enraged

• Game gold gust gategopher gutter

• Weight vein eight sleigh

• Stronger spun storiessticky slap


• Ananse bowed and answered: “I shall gladly pay the price.”

• He kept them in a golden box next to his royal stool.


• The spider spun a sticky web across the stronger tree.

Meet the Author Illustrator • Gail Haley• Gail E. Haley was an only child, who often entertained herself by

reading or making up stories. How do you think this would influence her work as a writer?

• This would make it easier for Haley to create imaginative stories as an adult.

• The theme of this unit is Storytelling. Why would being able to draw, write, and make costumes and puppets be useful tools in storytelling?

• Using puppets or exciting illustrations makes your story more visual.• Pictures can tell a story all their own. What type of story is being told

in A Story, A Story if you never read the text?• A story about Africa or a folktale.

defenseless

• .

• “Spider stories” tell how small, defenseless men or animals outwit others and succeed against great odds.

• The hungry fox didn’t see the defenseless ducklings across the pond. They were lucky because they couldn’t protect themselves.

• Defenseless: without protection: unguarded

descendants• Their descendants still tell some of these stories today.• Grandfather’s descendants all came to his birthday party,

including his brand new grandchild.• Descendants: children, grandchildren, and continuing

generations.

tatter

• Should you not fly into my calabash, so that the rain will not tatter your wings?”

• We need to take down the flag before the strong winds tatter it into pieces.

• Tatter: tear, make ragged; rip

Calabash

flamboyant• He set the little doll at the foot of a flamboyant tree where fairies like

to dance.• Her flamboyant clothes and rainbow-colored hair attracted

everyone’s attention.• Flamboyant: Overly colorful, showy appearance or behavior, a kind

of tree

Furious

• Now the fairy was stuck to the gum baby with both hands, and she was furious.

• The man was furious when the passing car splashed mud on his suit.

• Furious: very angry, violent

VocabularyPlease draw a line from the word to it’s

picture and definition.defenseless

descendants

tatter

flamboyant

furious

without protection: unguarded

tear, make ragged; rip

children, grandchildren, and continuing generations.

Overly colorful, showy appearance or behavior, a kind of tree

very angry, violent

FolktalesReading 3.1, 3.2

• Does anyone know a folktale?• Folktales are stories passed down from

generation to generation.• Folktales were originally told orally.• Folktales reflect the culture in which they

originated.• Some folktales, called trickster tales, are about

weak people or animals outwitting their stronger enemies.

• Folktales have been told throughout the world.

InvestigationReading 2.7 TE page 117d

• Let’s do page 113 of our Inquiry Journal to learn more about following directions.

SpellingEng. Lang. Conv. 1.8

• Let’s do page 105 in our Spelling and Vocabulary workbook.

English Language Convention

• Listening for mood.• Every piece of work should create a mood

or tone for the audience.• You can develop mood by focusing on key

elements, such as using vivid word choices, or dialogue.

• Let’s identify the mood of some of our selections we have read.

Writing Process StrategiesWriting1.4

• We are going to use page 84 of our Writer’s Workbook to help us revise our fantasy story.