Day 2 Anansi Goes Fishing

THE BIG QUESTION.... What does it mean to be creative?

Concept Talk In the song we hear that fish are not always safe. What is one problem that fish have in this song?

Oral Vocabulary: Amazing Words consume prey shrewd

Problem Creative Thinking People and animals need food to stay alive. People and animals need can use a tool to eat. Armadillos roll up to protect themselves. Animals need to stay safe. Anansi wants to eat a fish. Bait on a hook can trick fish.

goldfish handmade playmate raindrop backstage bedspread overflow Consonant Blends and Compound Words goldfish handmade playmate raindrop backstage bedspread overflow landslide sandstone

1. Trish got a postcard with a seacoast shown on it. Phonics 1. Trish got a postcard with a seacoast shown on it. 2. The three men will backpack into the hills and see lots of wildlife. 3. We stay inside during a windstorm or sandstorm.

Spelling Words 1. basketball 2. someone 3. weekend 4. something 5. birthday 6. riverbank 7. bathtub 8. backyard 9. driveway 10. bedtime 11. raindrop 12. mailbox

Challenge Words grandparent Earthquake rattlesnake

Compound Word Riddle.... Why is the bluebird blue? Because the mockingbird is always mocking him!

High-Frequency Words caught today been finally believe parents wash tomorrow whatever been finally believe parents wash company picture school faraway answer Monitor Progress: Check HF Words Day 2 Anansi Goes Fishing

Vocabulary Activities An ANTONYM is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word. Vocabulary Activities Journal Word Bank

Vocabulary slow day full yes large bad fast night empty no small good

Your next, Daily Task.... http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/matchgeneric.asp?filename=kderitteantonyms

Story Words These are some of the new story words we’ll read today when we read our main selection....

weave – to form threads into a cloth or to make straw into hats Story Words WEAVE weave – to form threads into a cloth or to make straw into hats

Story Words LAZY lazy – not liking to work or be active

Story Words DELICIOUS delicious – something that tastes really good

justice – something that is fair and right Story Words JUSTICE justice – something that is fair and right

Background Building Audio CD Build Background Background Building Audio CD Listen for how Anansi tricks Tiger. Question Preview....

Turn and Talk.... 1. Who is Anansi? How does he trick Tiger? 2. What are some things that Anansi can do?

Turn and Talk.... 3. What other trickster characters do you know? 4. Who do you think comes out the best in the end - the trickster or the character that was tricked?

Did we have a brain match? Turn and Talk.... Trickster Character What Character Does Animals in Bremen Town Musicians B’rer Rabbit Anansi Did we have a brain match?

Turn and Talk.... Trickster Character What Character Does Animals in Bremen Town Musicians Trick the Robbers B’rer Rabbit Tricks the Bear and Fox Anansi Tricks other animals in the forest

Let’s Practice It! TR DVD 145 Comprehension Skill • Good readers compare and contrast as they read. • They think about how two or more things are alike or different. Let’s Practice It! TR DVD 145

Comprehension Strategy * When readers want to understand or remember what they read, they look for the most important things that happen and use them to retell the story...... This is summarizing! * EI•25Student Edition

Genre Folk Tale.... • a story that was told long ago and passed along orally • often has a trickster character, or a character that tries to get something by tricking another character

Comprehension Preview and Predict: reading the title take a picture walk make a prediction Set a Purpose so we think and understand as we read the story.

Let’s Read!

Folk Tale: What animal’s behavior does this folk tale explain? Comprehension Check Folk Tale: What animal’s behavior does this folk tale explain? Confirm Predictions: Think of a prediction you made using the illustrations. Did you confirm your prediction?

Literary Text Setting, Character, anD Plot * We read a different version of this same story. Let’s compare and contrast Anansi Goes Fishing with A Fool Goes Fishing.

LITERARY TEXTSETTING, CHARACTER, AND PLOT How are the characters the same? Different? Both stories are about Anansi. In the one story he is a man, and in the other story he is a spider.

LITERARY TEXTSETTING, CHARACTER, AND PLOT How are the settings the same? Different? Both stories are by the water. One is near the West African forest.

Reread for Fluency Reread pages 428-429 of our story Read it more than once! Do you notice your fluency improving?

Conventions: Verbs for Past, Present, and Future The frog hops now. hops What is the verb, or action word? Grammar Jammer!

Conventions: Verbs for Past, Present, and Future The frog hopped yesterday. What is the new verb? hopped What ending do we use when we talk about the past tense? -ed

Conventions: Verbs for Past, Present, and Future will hop The frog ________ tomorrow. What new verb goes in the blank to show the future? will What word begins the verb when we talk about the future?

1. We cleaned the desks well. Read the sentences. What are the verbs? Tell when the action happens. 1. We cleaned the desks well. cleaned, past tense 2. The windstorm scared me. scared, past tense

3. An insect hurries to hide. Read the sentences. What are the verbs? Tell when the action happens. 3. An insect hurries to hide. hide, present tense 4. Who will open the window soon? open, future tense

finish these sentences. Use an action verb to finish these sentences. 1. Our clock ____ the time now. 2. The bell ____ later. 3. Last night we ____ at my sister’s joke. Reader’s and Writer’s NB, page 223

Writer Trait: Conventions *Writing Prompt for today Think about how creative thinking can solve a problem. Now write a narrative poem in which someone solves a problem. Generate ideas for the topic...

Problems Creative Solutions To start planning our poem, think of problems characters have had in stories we read. Problems Creative Solutions

TO START PLANNING OUR POEM, THINK OF PROBLEMS CHARACTERS HAVE HAD IN STORIES WE READ. Problems Creative Solutions needed to get food tricked wanted to find a new home built something new wanted to win a race used something in a different way needed to escape wanted to travel or do something new

Writer Trait: Conventions •Mini-Lesson Sentences in a Poem RW Notebook page 224 for planning sheet

Writer Trait: Conventions ROUTINE: Quick Write for Fluency Talk Write Share

High-Frequency Words- Wrap up your day High-Frequency Words- Let’s read the high frequency words in this sentence. I believe that Anansi has finally been caught in a trick.

Wrap up your day Build Concepts * What prey did Anansi want to catch? * Did turtle or Anansi consume all the fish? * Who proved to be the more shrewd character?

Tomorrow Tomorrow we’ll learn more amazing words and we will reread Anansi Goes Fishing.