Adventure in Bear Valley
Adventure (fiction), 2,039 words, Level W (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension	Sequence Events
Grammar and Mechanics	Prefixes
Word Work	Irregular Content Words

Book Summary

Adventure in Bear Valley recounts the adventures of a pioneer girl and her brother as they brave the new land out west. On their perilous journey to California, their parents die and a young pioneering couple take them in. Emily and Jess trust the Hutchinsons but rely on each other to make it through each day. An encounter with a wild bear changes everything, bringing them all closer. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Sequence events
• Identify the prefix re-
• Recognize the use of slang in the text

Vocabulary

• Content words: agonizingly, apprentice, between hay and grass, blowup, bosh, bully, canteens, dragged out, flapjacks, hoarse, hold a candle to, homestead, kin, pallet, perilous, peter out, perplexed, provisions, tie to, timid

Book Resources

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