1. Objective: To analyze the reading.
Date: Thursday, December 17th 2015 Topic: The extra good Sunday (Part I & II)
Objective: To analyze the reading.
CLASS # 8 – U3

3. Essential Questions
What clues in a story help you understand its characters?

4. Identify Main Idea and Details
1. What makes you think that this story is mainly about parents teaching their children a lesson?

5. Infer Cause and Effect
2. Why do the girls feel that the day drags on?

6. Stop and Think
Infer/Predict
Why does Ramona pretend to forget about dinner? What is she hoping will happen?

7. Identify Sequence of Events
3. What happens after Ramona tries to go skating?

8. Draw Conclusions
4. Which sentence from the story shows that, at first, Ramona doesn’t care if dinner turns out badly?

9. Analyze Author’s Purpose
5. How do you think the author feels about the chicken skins when she describes them as “a sad-looking heap”?

10. Compare and Contrast
6. How is this story like other stories you’ve read?

12. Stop and Think
Author’s Craft
What comparison does the author make to help you picture the sisters peeling skin off the chicken?

14. Understanding Characters
7. What clues help you know that Ramona is sloppy?

15. Target Vocabulary
8. What are the key ingredients for a good friendship?

16. Understanding Characters
9. How does Beezus feel when she tells Ramona to stick the corn bread in the oven? How can you tell?

17. Understanding Characters
10. What clues help you know that the author, Beverly Cleary, wrote this story to entertain and to make the reader laugh?

18. Draw Conclusions
11. Why does Beezus say that dinner might look better with candles?

19. Make and Support Predictions
12. What details support the prediction that the dinner will be successful?

20. Target Vocabulary
13. How does a tense person look and act?

21. Understanding Characters
14. How does Ramona feel at dinner?

23. Analyze Author’s Purpose
15. What lesson do you think the author wants the reader to learn about refusing to do what you’re told?