stride - the rhythm of your walking and the length or your steps
checking - limiting or controlling something
wheeled - turned quickly
bounding - leaping
shouldered - carried the weight
strained - stretched to the limit, either physically or mentally
romp - an energetic and noisy way to play
picturing - creating a mental image of something
Genre: Historical Fiction
Big Idea: Values and Responsibility
Essential Question:
Can nature bring out the best in a character?
Comprehension
Target Skill
Understanding Characters - authors try to create story characters that seem like real people with believable feelings, traits and personalities. Traits are ways of speaking and acting to show what a character is like. By examining a character's actions, words and thoughts, they can determine his or her motives or reasons for doing something. Authors often have characters grow and change during the course of a story.
Target Strategy
Visualize - use text details to form pictures in your mind. Visualize the characters' actions and behaviors to help better understand the text.
Old Yeller
Quizlet Vocabulary Practice
Target Vocabulary
Genre: Historical Fiction
Big Idea: Values and Responsibility
Essential Question:
Comprehension
Target Skill
Target Strategy
Vocabulary Strategy: Adages and Proverbs
Adages and proverbs Quizlet
WALK THE PLANK PROVERBS QUIZ
A picture book: “A Mango in the Hand: A Story Told Through Proverbs” by Antonio Sacre
Grammar: Direct/Indirect Objects
Spelling: More vowels plus /r/
Spelling City
Resources:
Old Yeller Movie Trailer (1 min, 23 sec)
Old Yeller Clip (The Rock Fight) 1 min, 36 sec
Old Yeller VS bear video clip