Building Skills
Phonological Awareness
While children are working with their partners, have them take turns reading a page out loud and listening for the sound of long vowels.
Phonics
Have children circle or highlight all the long vowel words. Add these words to the class long vowel pattern charts and to their word notebooks.
Word Work
Word Endings
Write the following words from the text on chart paper: earlier, cavities. Ask: What is the base (root) word? Write the base word on the board. Discuss how the word has changed. Keep the chart up and encourage children, while reading independently, to look for other words they can add to the chart.
Mechanics/Grammar
Have children look at page 4 and discuss how the author used commas. Explain that when an author lists three or more elements in a sentence, a comma is used to separate each item. Point out that the comma goes before words such as or/and. Have children look through the text and find other examples.
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