day 3 anansi goes fishing. today we will learn: * vocabulary: new amazing words * phonics/spelling:...

Day 3

Anansi Goes Fishing

Today we will learn:

* Vocabulary: New Amazing Words

* Phonics/Spelling: Compound Words

* Words: Story Words and High-Frequency Words

* Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions

* Conventions: Verbs for past, present, future

* Writing: Narrative Poem Draft

THE BIG QUESTION....

What does it meanto be creative?

Concept Talk Video

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

How can creative thinking solve a

problem?

Sing with Me

In “Clever Little Fishies” we hear about fish who do not want to be prey. What is one way these fish can stay safe?

Oral Vocabulary: Amazing Words

consume

prey

shrewd

Problem Creative ThinkingPeople and animals need food to stay alive.

People and animals need can use a tool to eat.

Animals need to stay safe.Armadillos roll up to protect themselves.

Turtle wants to eat a fish.

Bait on a hook can trick fish.Shrewd fish learn not to take the bait.

Spiders eat bugs.Spiders use a web to catch their prey.

Mice eat the crops. The farmer’s cat gets rid of the mice.

Turtle tries to trick Anansi

Phonics:Build Words

We are going to build compound words. I will write three words. Read each word in your head. We’ll choose the two that make a compound word.

PHONICS:BUILD WORDS

Pick Word 1 Word 2 Compound Word

headmayband

postgoldfish

head band headband

gold fish goldfish

PHONICS:BUILD WORDS

Pick Word 1 Word 2 Compound Word

sudsweeksoap

coastskateboard

soap suds soapsuds

skate board skateboard

PHONICS:BUILD WORDS

Pick Word 1 Word 2 Compound Word

homestormwind

backstonepack

wind storm windstorm

back pack backpack

Fluent Word Reading

goldfish

I can read the words gold and fish. I put them together and form

the compound word goldfish.

Fluent Word Reading

Read the smaller words that make up each compound

word in your head.

popcorn seacoast rainstorm

bathrobe underline overhead

PhonicsWord Analysis

Decodable Practice Reader 2.1

Jon’s Postcard

• Page 225

Spelling

Listen to the sentence.

Echo the teacher.

Write the sentence, one word at a time.

Proofread and correct

On Your Own: Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook p. 226

1. basketball2. someone3. weekend4. something5. birthday6. riverbank

7. bathtub8. backyard9. driveway10. bedtime11. raindrop12. mailbox

Spelling Words

Challenge Words

grandparent

Earthquake

rattlesnake

Sentences....next!

1. Have you been playing basketball in that driveway?

2. Tim’s birthday party will be in his backyard.

3. I believe someone is on that riverbank.

4. We had popcorn before bedtime last weekend.

High-Frequency Words

Vocabulary Activities

been whatever tomorrow

today believe caught

finally

Story Words

Vocabulary Activities

delicious justice

weave lazy

1. Anansi has always ____ a lazy

spider.

2. Today he does ____ Turtle

asks.

3. ____ Anansi will weave a net.

High-Frequency & Story Words

High-Frequency & Story Words

4. Anansi finally ____ a fish.

5. I believe that the fish tasted

____.

6. Turtle wasn’t fair, so Anansi

wanted ____.

Vocabulary Activities Reader’s and Writer’s NB, p. 227

Main-Selection

Draw Conclusions...Good readers draw conclusions while they read to help them understand things that the author does not directly tell about the characters or plot.

Extra practice: Let’s Practice It! TR DVD-140

Main-Selection

eReader

Genre: Folk Tale

Set a Purpose - What lessons might have Anansi and Turtle learned?

Extend our Thinking

Conventions

Verbs can tell when action happens...

Grammar Jammer

A friend dances.dances happens right now

Conventions

A friend danced.

danced happens in the past

A friend will dance.

will dance happens in the future

Conventions

I need a female volunteer, please....

_____ claps her hands.

Conventions

We will clap our hands 3 times.

Conventions

We ___________ our hands.

clapped

Conventions

1. Yesterday we _________ a new game.

2. One family ___________ to another home next week.

3. The team _________ today.

WritingWriter’s Craft: Description

Yesterday I wrote my poem.

I used rhyming words

I used animal names so you can imagine how they look and act.

WritingWriter’s Craft: Description

I used describing words so you could ‘feel’ the day.

I used sound words, like ‘crunch’, to help readers imagine what they hear.

page 446-447

WritingWriter’s Craft: Description

Good poets use words to help readers see, feel, or taste what is being described.

Writing Transparency 13A

Quick Write for Fluency

Talk about how you imagine something in your poem....

how did it look, sound, smell, or feel?

Quick Write for Fluency

Write a sentence to describe it better.

Quick Write for Fluency

Share your sensory words in your poems.

Wrap up your day

Compare and Contrast: What clues in a story can help us figure out why characters act a certain way?

Wrap up your daySummarize: When you read, why is it important to stop every so often to summarize key events in a story?

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we’ll read a poem about how spiders avoid their own sticky traps.