The Harvest Birds
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The Harvest Birds
by Bianca Lopez de Mariscal
Genre - folktale
Paired Text - The Treasure
Genre - folktale
Essential Question:
What do traditional tales tell readers about life?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - conclusions, literal and nonliteral meanings
Target Strategy - infer/predict
Fluency - stress
Phonics
silent letters
silent letters kn, wr
Skill Links
Study Zone Inferences Practice
Personification PowerPoint (click link at bottom)
Literal and Nonliteral Meanings Lesson
Language Goals
Spelling - short vowels
itch wreck knee patch
wrap knot watch knife
stretch write knew knock
match wrong know catch
wrinkle knuckle
Vocabulary
Strategy - context clues
harvest - crops that are gathered or ready to be gathered
seperate - divide into parts or sections
ashamed - feeling shame or guilt
borders - outer parts or edges
advice - an idea or suggestion about how to solve a problem
borrow - to get something from someone else and plan to return or replace it later
patch - a small area
serious - not joking or fooling
Skill Links
Grammar
using commas
Skill Links
Quia Battleship
Rags to Riches Commas
Writing
Focus Trait - word choice
Writing Type - opinion (response paragraph)
Skill Links
