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Cali and Wanda Lou Level T
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 1,316

Lesson Parts
1) Before Reading
2) During Reading
3) After Reading
4) Build Skills
5) Build Fluency
6) Extend the Reading
7) Assessment

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Book Summary
Cali and Wanda Lou is a story about a girl and her stuffed calico cat. Told from the perspective of Cali, the cat, the two take adventurous trips to many far-away places, such as Tokyo, Beijing, and Bangkok. Students will enjoy learning about the many interesting sites Cali and Wanda Lou visit on their trip. Photographs and illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
  • Make inferences
  • Identify compound sentences used in the text
  • Understand the use of words with suffix -ful

Materials

  • Book -- Cali and Wanda Lou (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Ask and answer questions, make inferences, compound sentences, suffixes worksheets

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

Vocabulary

  • Content words: foreigners, kimono, klong, obi, moat, mosaics, pagoda, passport, sawatdi, sayonara, spires, sushi, tempura, tuk-tuk, venom, zai jian


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