Thursday, April 12, 2012

Back to our short stories...

For today's lesson, we read a children's book - Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. This helped us to review the shape of a story (Lesson 4). Students then completed the following skill drill (see image):

Homework:
* Complete a story chart for two of the following: The Outsiders, Out of the Dust, or Freak the Mighty. (See Edline if you need the story chart format.)
* Independent reading process (read 20 min, blog by SUNDAY PM)