Savvy ReaderPredicting

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: FolktaleAuthor: Sam R. McColl

“Prairie Belle, Belle of the Prairie”

Team Cooperation GoalExplain 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.

shouldering

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.

Prediction Page number Confirmed or Disproved

Pa will leave for the Ford ranch to get a new cow.Clues: Pa is packing his bags.

9

Was it confirmed or disproved?

• I am going to read Chapter 5 aloud. I willfollow 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.

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.

Team TalkLet’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 16Restate page 16Read Silently: Page 17Discuss 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? How do you think you would have acted?