Book Summary
Adventure in Bear Valley recounts the adventures of a pioneer girl and her brother as they brave the new land out west. On their perilous journey to California, their parents die and a young pioneering couple take them in. Emily and Jess trust the Hutchinsons but rely on each other to make it through each day. An encounter with a wild bear changes everything, bringing them all closer. Illustrations support the text. 

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
• Sequence events
• Identify dialogue words used to depict emotion
• Recognize the use of slang in the text

Materials

• Book -- Adventure in Bear Valley (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, sequencing, vocabulary 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: agonizingly, apprentice, between hay and grass, blow-up, bosh, bully, canteens, dragged out, flapjacks, hoarse, hold a candle, homestead, kin, pallet, perilous, perplexed, provisions, tie to, timid