Book Summary
Emma and her family go to the Golden Pagoda restaurant every year on her mom's birthday. Before they leave, Emma puts their new puppy, Sparky, out in the backyard, but forgets to lock the gate. While at dinner, each member of the family receives a mysterious fortune in their fortune cookie. When they arrive home, they discover that Sparky has escaped the backyard. How will their fortunes help Emma and her family find Sparky?

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Identify correct sequence of events in the text
• Identify r-controlled /ur/ letter combinations er, ir, and ur
• Recognize and use contractions correctly
• Identify and distinguish between multiple-meaning words

Materials

• Book -- Sparky's Mystery Fortune (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, sequence events, contractions, multiple-meaning words worksheets

    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: breathlessly, container, discovered, fortune cookies, mystery, restaurant, theories