Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

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Objectives: 

-students will be able to identify words with the suffix -ed. 

-students will be able to identify the sotry elements. 

Day 1:

-who has ridden the bus before?​ 

 -Students think-pair-share responses

-Introduce vocablary words. have students complete vocabulary

squares in groups of four for each word. 

-Introduce linguistic feature of the week. Past tense Marker -ed. 

 make a chart with words with past tense suffix -ed. words from the 

story. Ex. sagged, sighed, asked, lurched, stopped, laughed, pointed

Day 2:

-review vocabualry words 

-Have students create a t-chart with words with the past-tense -ed marker

-do a book walk of the book making predictions about what might happen in the story. Have students think-pair-share what they think. Pick-a-stick to have students share responses with the class.  Chart student responses. 

-read the story aloud, checking to see if student responses were accurate. 

-introduce reading strategy for the week: taking look at the illustrations to describe the setting, characters, or events. 

-create a chart with story elements. the Setting, the characters, and the events. 

Day 3:

-Students will play memory game, matching the vocabulary words with their definitions. 

-reread the book. How did cj's feelings change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. how does his mood change? make a flow map of his feelings at the beginning and the end. 

Day 4:

-have students play charades with vocabulary words. One student acts it out then the audience tries to guess what word it is. Students can shout out 

-Students explore the character traits for both cj and grandma. complete a bubble map for each character. TEACHER WILL MODEL WITH THE BUBBLE MAP ABOUT CJ'S CHARACTER TRAITS.

-STUDENTS WILL WORK IN COOPERATIVE PAIRS TO COMPLETE A BUBBLE MAP ABOUT GRANDMA'S CHARACTER TRAITS.  

 Bubble map resources here

DAY 5:

-DISCUSS HOW the illustrations help the author convey the theme that there is beauty everywhere. 

-have students think-pair-share what is unique about the illustrations in the book. What kind of art is it? 

-explore a place that is not considered beautiful in the school. have the students draw that place showing its beauty in the same style that the illustrator chose in the story. 

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