1. Day 2 The Bremen Town Musicians

2. THE BIG QUESTION... How can we work together?

3. QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Sing with Me Big Book Audio

4. Oral Vocabulary: Amazing Words partnership solution Survival

5. Phonics Inflected Endings; Plurals

7. Spelling Words: lunch lunches story stories tune tunes switch switches baby babies note notes *people *scared Challenge: crumbs centuries classes

8. High-Frequency Words bought people pleasant probably scared shall sign

9. High-Frequency Words peoplesignboughtscared probablyshallpleasant abovetowardwholeworld enoughago Monitor Progress: Check HF Words Bremen Town Musicians

10. Vocabulary Homophones Homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

11. night knight Homophones....

12. Vocabulary Homophones Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook, page 138 Homophones be- bee seen - scene heard - herd here - hear night - knight

13. Story Words

19. Build Background The Breman Town Musicians Background Building Audio 1. What job do roosters do on the farm? 2. What farm jobs do cats, dogs, and donkeys do? 3. Why do Farmer Brown’s animals think they are losing their jobs?

20. Build Background The Breman Town Musicians Background Building Audio

21. Build Background In this story, 4 animals find that they are no longer needed for the work they once did. As we read, we’ll learn about how animals work together to solve their problems.

22. Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect Cause is why something happened, and an effect is what happened.

23. Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure Good readers look for the problem in the story. They also follow the sequence, or order, of events in a story from beginning to end to see how the problem is solved. EI 24

24. Story Structure

25. Main Selection * Genre: a drama is a story written to be acted out. It has characters, setting, and plot. Most of the story is told through the characters’ dialogue or conversation.

26. Let’s Read! Today we’ll read... Turn to the Table of Contents. What page will we find this story?

27. Comprehension Check Drama Confirm Predictions Make Judgements Main Idea Connect text to world

28. Literary Text Dialogue ELEMENTS OF A DIALOGUE: * meant to be performed for an audience * story is told mostly through the characters’ dialogue, or conversation. * each character has a particular way of speaking

29. Literary Text Dialogue What do you think the donkey is like? What are his traits? How do you thik he might sound as he speaks?

30. CharactersTraitsHow They Speak Donkey Dog Cat friendly deep voice, hee-haw weak think voice, bow-wow sad high voice, meow

31. Reread for Fluency Reread pages 296-297 of our story Read it more than once! Do you notice your fluency improving?

32. Conventions: Plural Nouns that Change Spelling Grammar Jammer! Which word is plural? What is the singular noun that changes spelling to make its plural?

33. Conventions: Plural Nouns that Change Spelling Grammar Jammer! Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook, page 139

34. Writing: Fairy Tale Writing Trait: Organization It tells a story about magical characters and events. The characters usually are either very good or very bad. Key Features of a Fairy Tale

35. Writing: Fairy Tale Writing Trait: Organization You can make a fairy tale with magical characters and events. It will have a beginning, middle, and end.

36. Writing: Fairy Tale Writing Trait: Organization Generate ideas for topic with a T-Chart. First, we’ll choose characters.....

37. Writing: Fairy Tale Writing Trait: Organization Good CharactersBad Characters micecat

38. Writing: Fairy Tale Writing Trait: Organization Good CharactersBad Characters micecat princess or princemean man/woman elftroll girl or boyevil king unicorndragon pigsfox Choose your characters.....

39. Writing: Fairy Tale Writing Trait: Organization Choose your setting..... castle field forest farm bridge country road house

40. Writing Trait: Organization/Sequence Mini-Lesson Organization / Sequence Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook, page 140 will help us plan

41. Handwriting Some writers slant their words to the right, some slant words to the left. Keep your letters going in the same slant!

42. Wrap up your day High-Frequency Words I think people will probably like the play.

43. Wrap up your day Build Concepts * What is one reason the animals were miserable before they got together? * Was their partnership for survival?

44. Tomorrow Tomorrow we’ll learn more amazing words and reread The Breman Town Musicians.