Sarah, Plain and Tall
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
Genre - Historical Fiction
Paired Text - Wagons of the Old West
Genre - Informational Text
Essential Question:
What was life on the prairie like for the pioneers?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - story structure, point of view
Target Strategy - monitor/clarify
Fluency - intonation
Phonics
base words and -ed, -ing
Skill Links
Cinderella Story Structure Interactive
Language Goals
Spelling - words with -ed, -ing
coming swimming dropping tapping
taping invited saving stared
planned changing joking loved
gripped tasted making stopped
freezing scared
Vocabulary
Strategy - prefix non-
prairie - a treeless, grass-covered plain in the Midwest
slick - having a smooth, glossy, or slippery surface
fetch - to go after and bring back somebody or something
clattered - made a loud rattling noise
buzzing - making a low, humming sound
sniff - breathe in through the nose to see how something smells
rough - having a bumpy, knobby, or uneven surface
batted - struck at something
thumped - hit in a way that made a loud dull sound
rustle - a swishing or soft cracking sound
Skill Links
Grammar
adverbs that compare
Skill Links
Quia: Comparative/Superlative Adverbs
Writing
Focus Trait - ideas
Writing Type - Narrative (fictional narrative paragraph)
Skill Links
