Day 1. A Days Work Author: Eve Bunting Illustrator: Ronald Himler Skill: Character and Visualization Genre: Realistic Fiction.

Day 1Day 1

A Day’s WorkA Day’s Work

• Author: Eve Bunting

• Illustrator: Ronald Himler

• Skill: Character and Visualization

• Genre: Realistic Fiction

Question of the WeekQuestion of the Week

When is a solution the wrong solution?

Read AloudRead Aloud

Objective:

• Build vocabulary by finding words related to the lesson concept.

• Listen and visualize.

Read AloudRead 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 WebVocabulary Concept WebRight and WrongRight 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 WebVocabulary Concept WebRight and WrongRight and Wrong

• Let’s read the sentences in which honestly appears. Pronounce the word honestly.

• Honestly means ‘in a truthful way.’

Vocabulary Concept WebVocabulary Concept WebRight and WrongRight 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 LessonComprehension Skill/Strategy Lesson

Objectives:

• Understand character.

• Visualize to understand character.

Comprehension Skill/Strategy LessonComprehension 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 LessonComprehension 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- VisualizeComprehension 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 BackgroundBuild Background

• Let’s make a t-chart about gardening. Help me think of things to add to the chart

GardeningThings a gardener should do Things a gardener should

not do

Lesson VocabularyLesson Vocabulary

Words to Know

•excitement

•gardener

•motioned

•sadness

•shivered

•shocked

•slammed

More Words to KnowMore Words to Know

•convinced•coarse

excitementexcitementa condition of having strong, lively a condition of having strong, lively

feelings about something that you likefeelings about something that you like

gardener gardener someone employed to take care of a someone employed to take care of a

garden or lawngarden or lawn

motionedmotionedmade a movement, as of the hand or head, made a movement, as of the hand or head,

to get someone to do somethingto get someone to do something

sadnesssadnessunhappiness; sorrowunhappiness; sorrow

shiveredshiveredshook with cold, fear, or shook with cold, fear, or excitementexcitement

shockedshockedcaused to feel surprise, horror, or caused to feel surprise, horror, or

disgustdisgust

slammedslammedthrew or hit something with great threw or hit something with great

forceforce

Small GroupSmall Group

• Read the leveled readers

FluencyFluency

• 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.

GrammarGrammarDay 1Day 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 ConnectionReading-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?

SpellingSpellingDay 1Day 1

Pre-TestPre-Test