Lesson Objectives

Book Summary

It looks like Anna's school picnic will be ruined by rain. But Oma tells Anna about Opa's magic coat, which can change the weather. Anna dons the enormous coat and commands the sun to shine. In the beautiful weather, everyone has fun at the picnic--everyone except Anna. How can she enjoy a picnic while wearing a coat that makes her too slow to play and too hot to eat?

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Text to text connections

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making text-to-text and text-to-self connections to understand a fiction story
• Analyze characters in text
• Identify r-controlled vowels
• Identify adjectives and the nouns they describe
• Identify and use figurative language

Vocabulary

• Content words: cupcakes, Oma, Opa, murmured, swirled, undid, whoever