Lesson Objectives

Book Summary

In this Native American tale, Glooskap, the leader of his people, seeks a way to end the perilous winter that has gripped the land. He finds that a giant named Winter has caused the cold weather. After escaping from Winter' s spells, Glooskap travels far to the south and finds a woman named Summer who can defeat the giant and bring warmth to the land.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand the story and remember information
• Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
• Manipulate medial sounds
• Identify words with variant vowel /ow/ digraph and diphthong
• Compare and correctly use verb tenses
• Identify and create compound words

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: could, other, there, under
• Content words: bloomed, escaped, Glooskap, invited, spell, spoke