I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll is a fun story about a boy whose monster that lives under his bed leaves to go on a fishing trip and the boy can't sleep without having them there, so he tries to find a substitute monster. Each monster that comes has something that makes him or her not scary to the little boy and he tells them why they won't work to be his monster. For this book we will again talk about making connections and the characters and setting of this story. We will also continue to work on the other skills we've learned that good readers use, such as asking/answering questions, inferencing, and using the illustrations in a story.
We will also review adjectives.
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A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker is a cute story about a bear who lives in a den and has never had any visitors so he comes to the conclusion that he doesn't like visitors and doesn't want any. One day a mouse comes to visit. Bear tells him "No Visitors Allowed" and shuts the door, but that mouse keeps popping up in various places throughout the story. Each time bear gets more and more upset as he tries to get rid of the mouse. Finally they come to a deal that if the bear shares his tea, snack, and fire, he will be on his way and not bother him again. While mouse visits, bear learns that it IS nice to have visitors and to make friends. For this story we made predictions and inferences as to what was going to happen in the story and what the message of the story is, what bear learned.
Students also learned how to use the clues in the illustrations to give us more information and how to use that to help us understand the story better and to infer what is going on in the story. For grammar, students learned about irregular plural nouns and we practiced turning different nouns into irregular plural nouns. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox is a sweet story about a little boy who lives next door to "an old people's home." He is friends with everyone there, but has a special friendship with Miss Nancy because she has four names just like him. He finds out that Miss Nancy has lost his memory so he asks the other residents what a memory is and then using their answers collects things to help Miss Nancy get her memory back. We continued talking about connections we can make to a story and students shared connections they had.
We also reviewed what plural nouns are and how for most nouns we just add s to make them plural, but there are times that we add es, change the y to i and add es, or change the f or fe to ves. We also learned how good readers ask and answer questions while they are reading to help them remember and understand the story to help build reading comprehension. Salamander Room by Anne Mazer is a story about a boy who finds a salamander outside and wants to keep him. When his mom asks him where, the boy goes into imaginative detail about where and how he can keep his salamander. Every question the mom comes up with he has a creative answer for and the illustrations in the story show just how creative and imaginative the boy is. To go with this story we talked about how we visual or make mental images when we read. We practiced this more by the students listening while I read some poems and they had to draw what they could see as I read. We also learned about and practiced common and proper nouns.
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant is a story told from the perspective of a Grandma sharing the stories of her childhood at her grandparent's house in the Appalachian Mountains. She tells about the swimming hole, the Johnny shed, tin bath tub, and how different things were. We use this book to talk about the setting of a story. We also talk about making connections: text-to-self (reminds you of something that happened to you), text-to-text (reminds you of something you read in another book), and text-to-world (reminds you of something that happened to someone else or you saw on tv or in a movie). Students also learn about the Appalachian Mountains through a Non-Fiction connecting text. We also work on reviewing what nouns are and learning about proper nouns.
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