Mighty JackieDay 3

Students need: Reading Textbook, pencil, Practice Book

Read the title and look at the illustrations.

Predict what the poem is about.Listen as the first two stanzas are read aloud.

Turn to pages 74-75

Read the rest of the

poem aloud with me. Pay

attention to the rhyme pattern.

Do you think the poem was written in the present or in the past? Why?

Were you surprised to learn that the new kid was a girl?

What makes the new kid a great player?

Reread pages 62-63.Turn to the next empty page in your reading folder and answer these questions:

1. How did Jackie’s father help her to grow up feeling confident about her abilities as a baseball player?

Let’s analyze two characters from “Mighty Jackie”

2. What did Mr. Mitchell’s actions show about him?

3. What did Dazzy Vance’s actions show about the kind of person he was?

Babe Ruth

His Actions His Words His Traits

Copy this chart in your reading folder. Work with a partner to fill in as much as you can.

Possible answers.

On next slide.

Answer Practice Book page 9

Model Synonyms as Clues

Voca

bula

ry

On the next empty page of your spelling folder, number from 1 to 15.

Write words that rhyme with each spelling word below:

chief ____________ _____________aim ____________ _____________fluke ____________ _____________Rose ____________ _____________

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