Savvy Reader Predicting Day 3 Prairie Bell, Belle of the Prairie

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

“Prairie Belle, Belle of the Prairie”

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

Vocabulary irritating replenish shouldering burnished goading swath collapsed partial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes our predictions happen and sometimes they don’t. When they happen the way we predict we call that being confirmed. When they don’t happen we call that disproved.

9 Was it confirmed or disproved? Prediction Page number Pa will leave for the Ford ranch to get a new cow. Clues: Pa is packing his bags. 9

I am going to read Chapter 5 aloud. I will follow the steps of prediction on my Predicting Strategy Card. I will stop after each page to ask myself what will happen next, and then make a prediction. I will also make a final prediction at the end of the chapter and write it down. Let’s listen to pages 14and 15.

Page 14 Dark clouds are forming. That usually means it’s going to rain. I predict there will be a storm.

Page 15 The sky has turned green. Prairie Belle’s father has said that when the sky turns green, a tornado is coming. So I predict a tornado is going to strike.

15 Prediction Page number Confirmed or Disproved A tornado is going to strike. Clues: dark clouds are forming and the sky is turning green and Pa said that means a tornado is coming 15

When you write your predictions at the end of your passage today, be sure to include the clues you used to make them.

Let’s preview the questions. Team Talk Let’s preview the questions. 1.Look at your prediction from Day 1 and 2. Have any more events that you predicted actually happpened, that is were they confirmed? Write it down on your Predictions chart and explain how you know. 2. What does Prairie Belle compare the tornado to in order to describe its sound? 3. How much damage does the tornado do? 4. Share your new (Day 3) prediction with your team. Discuss the clues that you used to make the prediction.

Partner Read 15 minutes Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you pages 16-17 Partner Read page 16 Restate page 16 Read Silently: Page 17 Discuss with team words you clarified Find vocabulary words

Team Discussion-15minutes Discuss answers to team talk questions Write answers to question 1 -- 4

Class Discussion What words did your group clarify?

At the end of the passage I read today, I predicted that a tornado would strike. After reading on to see what happened next, that’s exactly what happened. A tornado did strike. Luckily, Prairie made it through the tornado. This prediction was confirmed, so I’ll put “confirmed” on my chart.

Were any of your predictions confirmed? Can you give me a new prediction for today’s passage?

Do you think Prairie acted well during the tornado Do you think Prairie acted well during the tornado? How do you think you would have acted?