Savvy ReaderPredicting

Day 2

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.

Prediction Page number Confirmed or Disproved

They will run out of food sometime soon.Clues: food is running low and a drought means less food.

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• 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.

• I am going to read Chapter 3 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 8 and 9.

Page 8

• Big Nellie has passed away Pa and Prairie Belle need to have milk. I predict that Pa will come up with a plan to get another cow.

Prediction Page number Confirmed or Disproved

Pa will come up with a plan to get another cow.

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Page 9

• I know that Pa wants to get another cow, and he’s packing his bags. I predict that he’s going to leave for the Ford ranch to get a new cow.

Prediction Page number Confirmed or Disproved

Pa will come up with a plan to get another cow.

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

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• 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. Has it been confirmed or disproved? Write it down on your Predictions chart and explain how you know.

2. How does Prairie Belle feel when Pa leaves? Explain your answer.

3. What is the first thing Prairie Belle does when her father leaves?

4. Share your new (Day 2) 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 10-12

Partner Read page 10Restate page 10Read Silently: Pages 11 and 12Discuss 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 Pa would leave for the Ford ranch to go get a new cow. After reading on to see what happened next, I found out that my prediction was confirmed. Pa sis indeed leave. He rode away on Prince, his horse. So what I predicted would happen actually did happen. Now I’m going to continue recording the predictions that I made and if they are confirmed or not, as I read the story. 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 Belle is responsible enough to be left alone on the prairie?