Black and White in Winter

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Before After Level E Word Count 130 100th word snow pg 17 Reading Activities Teaching Focus Adjectives Adjectives are words that describe Look in the book and find the words that describe Before Reading be about Building Academic Vocabulary and Background Knowledge Before reading a book it is important to set the stage for your child or student by using pre-reading strategies This will help them develop their vocabulary increase their reading comprehension and make connections across the curriculum 1 Read the title and look at the cover Let’s make predictions about what this book will 2 Take a picture walk by talking about the pictures photographs in the book Implant the vocabulary as you take the picture walk Be sure to talk about the text features such as headings Table of Contents glossary bolded words captions charts diagrams or Index 3 Have students read the first page of text with you then have students read the 4 Strategy Talk use to assist students while reading 5 Read it again 6 After reading the book complete the activities below Get your mouth ready Look at the picture Think does it make sense Think does it look right Think does it sound right Chunk it by looking for a part you know remaining text High Frequency Words Flip through the book and locate how many times the high frequency words were used and are black is it’s or the they’re what white winter After Reading Comprehension and Extension Activity After reading the book work on the following questions with your child or students in order to check their level of reading comprehension and content mastery 1 Why are snow pants important when playing outside Asking questions 2 Why do you think a snow rabbit is white in the winter Inferring 3 How do you have fun in the winter Text to self connection 4 Why are descriptive words like color important in a text Asking questions Extension Activity Create your own winter scene Think of other things in winter that are black and white Draw or print out your items and place them on a large piece of paper or poster board With a parent or teacher’s help label each of your images Now present your scene to your family or classmates