Smelly Clyde Level L
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 430

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SMELLY CLYDE
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Comprehension Quiz
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Book Summary
Smelly Clyde is about a dog named Clyde who loves the smell of manure. One day he runs to Farmer Brown's farm and rolls and rolls in the manure of different animals. When Clyde goes home at the end of the day, he sniffs another odor, one he doesn't like. It's soap! Whimsical illustrations support the text.

Reader Supports

Reader Challenges

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategies
As children work to understand the text, you will use a number of reading strategies. The targeted reading strategy in Smelly Clyde is: Using prediction.

Word and Print Skills
Phonics: Learning about the consonant s-blend families
Word Work: High-Utility words, synonyms

Comprehension Strategies
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as children work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy in Smelly Clyde is: helping children to understand the concept of cause and effect. Tell children that as they read the story, they should stop and question what they think might happen next. Explain how they can use Think Alouds as a strategy to help them make predictions.

Visual Learning
Children will develop a better understanding of the relationship between picture details and text in order to help them solve difficult words or passages.