1. Justin and the Best Biscuits….. Day 3
Students need:
Reading textbook, reading folder, pencil, AR book

2. Turn to pages
Read the poem titles and look at the illustrations.
These two poems are about cowboys and how they live.

5. What is Brewster Higley’s
perspective on, or opinion of , the
Plains?
Which poem’s description of a
cowboy appeals more to you?
Why?

6. How is Grandpa in “Justin and
the Best Biscuits in the World” like
the cowboy described in “Hats
Off to the Cowboy”?

7. The following idioms have these
meanings in the poems:
Hats off to (show respect to)
Outlived his time (not important
anymore)
In his prime (still young, strong)
Tips his hat (shows respect to)
His handshake and word are his
bond (he can be trusted)

11. Complete a graphic organizer like the one below in your Reading Folder about the AR book you are reading
now:

13. prepare
The prefix pre- means “before” or “ahead”. The root pare
comes from a Latin word that
means “to make”. So prepare means “to make ready beforehand”.

14. Let’s do some more together:
unsaddled
hurriedly
excitement
cautiously

15. untangled silently redness
Try these on your own in your Reading Folder:
dismounted
untangled
silently
redness

16. Decoding Longer Words: pepper, shallow, fluffy
Repeat each word after me. Now listen to
how knowing the shorter words help a
reader decode the longer words.

17. Let’s decode the syllables in each
word and then blend them to
read the word.