LESSON SEVEN: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs-Part 2

                             

LESSON DESCRIPTION

Students decode independently during reading and complete the Fact Sheet.

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

R1C         Apply decoding strategies to independently problem solve unknown words when reading

R1E         Develop vocabulary through text using base words, synonyms, and antonyms, context clues and a glossary and dictionary

R1G         Develop and utilize comprehension strategies during reading

W3B       Complete an organizer to identify important information from text

 

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Source of Literature

o           Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett (class copies, reading from the arrival at Chewandswallow to the end of the story)

 

§         Supplies 

o        3x3 sticky notes in pink, yellow, and blue

o        Class Weather Web from Lesson Six

 

§         Handouts provided

o        Fact Sheet

 

§         Words to know

o        base words

o        context clues

o        decoding strategies

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 

Students complete the Fact Sheet while reading to the end of the book.

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

 

  1. With a partner, students share the predictions they wrote on item two of the Fact Sheet during the end of the previous lesson and verify if their predictions were correct.  

 

Questions

for

Students

What are some other weather activities that are happening in these pictures in the story? Use terms we discussed as we were making our list.

Were your predictions correct?

How was the story similar/different from your predictions?

What inferences can you make from the pictures? Why?

 

  1. Choose examples of antonyms and synonyms of words throughout the story (examples: frightened, scared, larger, smaller, sanitation, trash, outside, inside).  

 

  1. Students use sticky notes to recognize words with a synonym or antonym and provide the appropriate term. Classify your sticky notes into synonym/antonym columns.   

 

Question

for

Students  

What synonyms and antonyms did you come up with?