Day 2

Anansi Goes Fishing

THE BIG QUESTION....

What does it meanto be creative?

Concept Talk

In the song we hear that fish are not always safe. What is one problem that fish have in this song?

Oral Vocabulary: Amazing Words

consume

prey

shrewd

Problem Creative ThinkingPeople and animals need food to stay alive.

People and animals need can use a tool to eat.

Animals need to stay safe.Armadillos roll up to protect themselves.

Anansi wants to eat a fish.

Bait on a hook can trick fish.

Consonant Blends and Compound Words

goldfish handmade playmate

raindrop backstage bedspread

overflow landslide sandstone

Phonics

1. Trish got a postcard with a seacoast shown on it.

2. The three men will backpack into the hills and see lots of wildlife.

3. We stay inside during a windstorm or sandstorm.

1. basketball

2. someone

3. weekend

4. something

5. birthday

6. riverbank

7. bathtub

8. backyard

9. driveway

10. bedtime

11. raindrop

12. mailbox

Spelling Words

Challenge Words

grandparent

Earthquake

rattlesnake

Compound Word Riddle....

Why is the bluebird blue?

Because the mockingbird is always mocking him!

High-Frequency Words

caught today tomorrow whatever

been finally believe parents

wash company picture school

faraway answer Monitor Progress: Check HF Words

Day 2 Anansi Goes Fishing

Vocabulary Activities

Vocabulary ActivitiesJournal Word Bank

An ANTONYM is a word that has the

opposite meaning of another word.

Vocabulary

slow

day

full

yes

large

bad

fast

nightempty

no

small

good

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/matchgeneric.asp?

filename=kderitteantonyms

Your next,Daily Task....

Story Words

These are some of the new story words we’ll read today when we read our main selection....

Story Words

weave – to form threads into a cloth or to make straw into hats

WEAVE

Story Words

lazy – not liking to work or be active

LAZY

Story Words

delicious – something that tastes really good

DELICIOUS

Story Words

justice – something that is fair and right

JUSTICE

Build Background

Background Building Audio CD

Listen for how Anansi tricks Tiger.

Question Preview....

Turn and Talk....

1. Who is Anansi? How does he trick Tiger?

2. What are some things that Anansi can do?

Turn and Talk....

3. What other trickster characters do you know?

4. Who do you think comes out the best in the end - the trickster or the character that was tricked?

Turn and Talk....

Trickster Character

What Character Does

Animals in Bremen Town Musicians

B’rer Rabbit

Anansi

Did we have a brain match?

Turn and Talk....

Trickster Character

What Character Does

Animals in Bremen Town Musicians

Trick the Robbers

B’rer RabbitTricks the Bear and

Fox

AnansiTricks other animals in

the forest

ComprehensionSkill

• Good readers compare and contrast as they read.

• They think about how two or more things are alike or different.

Let’s Practice It! TR DVD 145

ComprehensionStrategy

* When readers want to understand or remember what they read, they look for the most important things that happen and use them to retell the story......

* EI•25Student Edition

This is summarizing!

Genre Folk Tale....

• a story that was told long ago and passed along orally• often has a trickster character, or a character that tries to get something by tricking another character

Comprehension

Set a Purpose so we think and understand as we read the story.

Preview and Predict: reading the title

take a picture walkmake a prediction

Let’s Read!

Comprehension Check

Folk Tale: What animal’s behavior does this folk tale explain?

Confirm Predictions: Think of a prediction you made using the illustrations. Did you confirm your prediction?

Literary TextSetting, Character, anD Plot

* We read a different version of this same story. Let’s compare and contrast Anansi Goes Fishing with A Fool Goes Fishing.

How are the characters the same? Different?

LITERARY TEXTSETTING, CHARACTER, AND PLOT

Both stories are about Anansi. In the one story he is a man, and in the other story he is a spider.

How are the settings the same? Different?

LITERARY TEXTSETTING, CHARACTER, AND PLOT

Both stories are by the water. One is near the West African forest.

Reread for Fluency

Read it more than once!Do you notice your fluency improving?

Reread pages 428-429

of our story

Conventions:Verbs for Past, Present, and Future

Grammar Jammer!

What is the verb, or action word?

The frog hops now.

hops

Conventions:Verbs for Past, Present, and Future

What is the new verb?

The frog hopped yesterday.

hoppedWhat ending do we use when we

talk about the past tense?-ed

Conventions:Verbs for Past, Present, and Future

What new verb goes in the blank to show the future?

The frog ________ tomorrow.will hop

What word begins the verb when we talk about the future?

will

Read the sentences. What are the verbs? Tell when the action happens.

cleaned, past tense

1. We cleaned the desks well.

2. The windstorm scared me.

scared, past tense

Read the sentences. What are the verbs? Tell when the action happens.

hide, present tense

3. An insect hurries to hide.

4. Who will open the window soon?

open, future tense

Reader’s and Writer’s NB, page 223

1. Our clock ____ the time now.

2. The bell ____ later.

3. Last night we ____ at my

sister’s joke.

Use an action verb to finish these sentences.

Writer Trait: Conventions

*Writing Prompt for today

Think about how creative thinking can solve a problem. Now write a narrative poem in which someone solves a problem.

Generate ideas for the topic...

To start planning our poem, think of problems characters have

had in stories we read.

Problems Creative Solutions

Problems Creative Solutions

needed to get food tricked

wanted to find a new home built something new

wanted to win a raceused something in a different way

needed to escape

wanted to travel or do something new

TO START PLANNING OUR POEM, THINK OF PROBLEMS CHARACTERS HAVE

HAD IN STORIES WE READ.

Writer Trait: Conventions

•Mini-Lesson Sentences in a Poem

RW Notebookpage 224

for planning sheet

Writer Trait: Conventions

ROUTINE:

Quick Write for FluencyTalkWriteShare

Wrap up your day

High-Frequency Words-Let’s read the high frequency words in this sentence.

I believe that Anansi has finally been caught in a trick.

Wrap up your day

Build Concepts* What prey did Anansi want to catch?* Did turtle or Anansi consume all the fish?* Who proved to be the more shrewd character?

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we’ll learn more amazing words and we will reread Anansi Goes Fishing.