Lesson Objectives

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