Book Summary
Day after day, grasshopper grazed on green grass and leaves. Then he decided to try some new foods. Will the new foods taste great or gross? Grasshopper's Gross Lunch provides the opportunity to discuss the difference between reality and fantasy with emergent readers. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Identify reality and fantasy
• Discriminate initial consonant blend /gr/
• Identify initial consonant blend gr
• Identify and use past-tense verbs
• Alphabetize words

Materials

• Book -- Grasshopper's Gross Lunch (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Reality and fantasy, consonant blend /gr/, past-tense verbs worksheets
• Discussion cards

     Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: are, eat, said, these, they, will
• Content words: grasshopper, grazed, greeted, grinned, groaned, gross, grumpy