1. Savvy Reader Predicting Day 5
Prairie Bell, Belle of the Prairie
Test Day

2. Title: Prairie Belle, Belle of the Prairie
Reading Goal: Genre Structure:
folktales {GS}
Team Cooperation Goal:
Explain your ideas and tell why.
Genre: Folktale
Author: Sam R. McColl

3. “Prairie Belle, Belle of the Prairie”

4. Explain your ideas and tell why.
Team Cooperation Goal
Explain your ideas and tell why.

5. Vocabulary irritating replenish shouldering burnished goading swath
collapsed
partial

6. irritating
When Mrs. Scratch scraped her fingernails on the chalkboard the sound was irritating to the whole class.

7. replenish
When I finished my milk, my mom replenished my glass when I wasn’t looking.

8. When Kendra left for school, she was shouldering a heavy load.

9. burnished
My mom showed me her special Canadian coin and it’s burnished surface fascinated me.

10. goading
The man was goading the alligator with a stick, trying to get him to go back into the water.

11. swath
The tornado left behind a swath of destruction that looked like a giant just walked right through the town.

12. collapsed
The building collapsed during the earthquake and it just fell to the ground.

13. partial
The umbrella had so many holes it only gave partial protection from the rain.

14. Talk to your partner and retell what has happened in the story up to this point.
Next, read over your predictions that you recorded yesterday in your journal.
Can you think of a good question, to ask at this point in the story?
Let’s see what I predicted yesterday.

15. Let’s preview the test together.

17. Remember the way to get a 100 on your prediction is to tell your prediction, tell your clues for it and if it is confirmed
or disproved.

18. Team Discussion
Discuss answers to the test.