1. Text (or Photo) Graffiti Look at the photos or text on your table. Use the markers to write words that come to your mind as you look at the picture or read the text. What is happening? What does this make you think of? What do you think we are going to read about?

2. Lucille Lasso Lessons

3. TWO COLUMN NOTES Make notes in the first column about your predictions. What are we getting ready to read? Where is the setting? Who are the characters? What action is taking place? Etc. Then read the complex text. Make correction notes in the second column. Something western In the past Maybe in Oklahoma Cowboys and cowgirls Roping cattle

5. Vocabulary: Did you write any of these? Vocabulary: Did you write any of these? featuredswarmed permittedamong Competedeffectively establishedearned claimingcoined arguelegend inaugural ? Very Specific Words: vaudeville, sidesaddle, yearling, bronc, etc.

6. VOCABULARY FOLDABLE Fold paper into thirds. In first column, write your vocabulary words. In second column, write a SHORT definition that your group creates. In third column, draw a picture that represents that word to you.

7. Add Captions to Convey Action in the Pictures Caption?

8. Caption:

9. Pre-Writing Puzzler Puzzle 1Puzzle 2 Setting ___________ Characters ___________ Event or Plot ___________ Setting ___________ Characters ___________ Event or Plot ___________

10. Helpful Tools We have covered…. Connection Prediction Motivation Summarization Vocabulary Writing Speaking and Listening Reading Non-fiction