Journeys Lesson 15- The Extra-good Sunday

This week we'll explore the question "Why are safety rules important?" In the humorous fiction selection The Extra-good Sunday, we'll meet two sisters who attempt to please their parents by making dinner.

Home Connection Activities!

Clean the Dishes! : Talk with your child about chores he or she performs around the house. Discuss why it's important for everyone to help with household tasks.

Vocabulary on the Go: See how many of this week's Target Vocabulary words you and your child can use to describe favorite foods.

anxiously, degrees, tense, ingredients, recommended, remarked, festive, cross

Better Be Safe Than Sorry: Talk to your child about the importance of observing safety rules in the kitchen or other parts of the home. Ask your child to draft an essay explaining why safety rules are important and what might happen if people didn't follow them. Remind your child to include a main idea and details in the draft.

Vocabulary

Build Background: Cooking

To make a good and healthful meal, cooks need to know many things. For example, they need to store, prepare, and cook different foods so they are safe to eat as well as tasty. Good cooks also know how to safely operate cooking tools and equipment such as stoves, ovens, mixers, knives, and graters. All this makes preparing and cooking good meals hard work. In The Extra-good Sunday, two sisters learn just hot challenging it can be to prepare a good meal.

Read the Story: "The Extra-good Sunday" Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Genre

Humorous Fiction is a funny, imaginative story. As you read, look for :

story events that are meant to be funny
characters that act in amusing ways
a plot with a beginning, a middle, and an ending

Read "The Extra-good Sunday" on page 539 in your Journeys Textbook

Click for Story Comprehension Questions

Continue your discussion of The Extra-good Sunday by answering these questions

Target Skill: Understanding Characters

As you read The Extra-good Sunday, notice the characters' thoughts, actions, and words. These are clues to the character's traits, or what the characters are like, and their motivations, or reasons for their actions.

Target Strategy: Infer/Predict

Use what you know about the characters to think more about, or infer, why they think, speak, and act as they do. Use text evidence to predict, or figure out, what the characters might do next.

Listen to the Story- The Extra-good Sunday

Vocabulary Strategy: Using a Thesaurus

Grammar Skill: Verb Tenses

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