Day 2

The Bremen Town Musicians

THE BIG QUESTION...

How can we work together?

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

Sing with Me Big Book Audio

Oral Vocabulary: Amazing Words

partnership

solution

Survival

PhonicsInflected Endings; Plurals

PhonicsInflected Endings; Plurals

Spelling Words:lunchlunchesstorystoriestunetunesswitchswitchesbabybabiesnotenotes*people*scared

Challenge:crumbscenturiesclasses

High-Frequency Words

• bought• people• pleasant• probably• scared• shall• sign

High-Frequency Words

people sign bought scared

probably shall pleasant

above toward whole world

enough ago Monitor Progress:Check HF Words

Bremen Town Musicians

VocabularyHomophones

Homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

night knight

Homophones....

VocabularyHomophones

Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook, page 138

Homophones

be- bee

seen - sceneheard - herd

here - hear

night - knight

Story Words

Build BackgroundThe Breman Town Musicians

Background Building Audio

1. What job do roosters do on the

farm?

2. What farm jobs do cats, dogs, and

donkeys do?

3. Why do Farmer Brown’s animals

think they are losing their jobs?

Build BackgroundThe Breman Town Musicians

Background Building Audio

Build Background

In this story, 4 animals find that they are no longer needed for the work they once did. As we read, we’ll learn about how animals work

together to solve their problems.

Comprehension Skill:Cause and Effect

Cause is why something happened, and an effect is what

happened.

Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure

Good readers look for the

problem in the story. They also

follow the sequence, or

order, of events in a story from beginning to

end to see how the problem is

solved. EI• 24

EI• 24

Story Structure

Main Selection

* Genre: a drama is a story written to be acted out. It has characters, setting, and plot.

Most of the story is told through the characters’ dialogue or conversation.

Let’s Read!

Today we’ll read...

Turn to the Table of Contents. What page will we find

this story?

Comprehension CheckDrama

Confirm

Predictions

Make Judgements

Main Idea

Connect text to

world

Literary TextDialogue

ELEMENTS OF A DIALOGUE:

* meant to be performed for an audience* story is told mostly through the characters’ dialogue, or conversation.* each character has a particular way of speaking

Literary TextDialogue

What do you think the donkey is like?

What are his traits?

How do you thik he might sound as he speaks?

Characters TraitsHow They

Speak

Donkey

Dog

Cat

friendlydeep voice,

hee-haw

weakthink voice,bow-wow

sadhigh voice,meow

Reread for Fluency

Reread pages 296-297 of our story

Read it more than once!Do you notice your fluency

improving?

Conventions:Plural Nouns that Change Spelling

Grammar Jammer!Which word is plural? What is the singular noun that changes spelling to make its plural?

Conventions:Plural Nouns that Change Spelling

Grammar Jammer!

Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook, page 139

Writing: Fairy TaleWriting Trait: Organization

It tells a story about magical characters and events.

The characters usually are either very good or very bad.

Key Features of a Fairy Tale

Writing: Fairy TaleWriting Trait: Organization

You can make a fairy talewith magical characters and

events.

It will have a beginning, middle, and end.

Writing: Fairy TaleWriting Trait: Organization

Generate ideas for topic with a T-Chart.First, we’ll choose characters.....

Writing: Fairy TaleWriting Trait: Organization

Good Characters Bad Characters

mice cat

Writing: Fairy TaleWriting Trait: Organization

Good Characters Bad Charactersmice cat

princess or princemean

man/womanelf troll

girl or boy evil kingunicorn dragon

pigs foxChoose your characters.....

Writing: Fairy TaleWriting Trait: Organization

Choose your setting.....

castlefield

forestfarm

bridgecountry

roadhouse

Writing Trait: Organization/Sequence

• Mini-Lesson Organization / Sequence

Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook, page 140 will

help us plan

Handwriting

Some writers slant their words to the right, some slant words

to the left. Keep your letters going in

the same slant!

Wrap up your day

High-Frequency Words

I think people will probably like the play.

Wrap up your day

Build Concepts* What is one reason the animals were miserable before they got together?

* Was their partnership for survival?

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we’ll learn more amazing words and reread The Breman Town Musicians.