Book Summary
Wonderful Winter is a story about Elton, who enjoys being outside and is unhappy that winter has come. He is sad that he cannot swim, hike, or ride his bike anymore. It seems as though nobody can talk him out of his grumpiness until his next-door neighbor, Penelope, invites him to play in the snow with her. He realizes that snowshoeing, sledding, and building snow people can be just as fun as his favorite summertime activities. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Sequence events
• Recognize superlative adjectives used in text
• Recognize and form compound words

Materials

• Book -- Wonderful Winter (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• Sequence events, superlative adjectives, compound words worksheets
• Discussion cards

     Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: adventures, bundled, decided, galoshes, grumpiest, neighbor, snowshoeing, suggested, terrible, terrific, wrinkled