Introduce Vocabulary: Some Birthday! (Polacco)

Patricia Polacco weaves an engaging tale for budding readers in her book Some Birthday!, an excellent resource for vocabulary in context. You can use this text to introduce the following words: investigate, snarl, and squawk. After a run-through of the terms, learners utilize context clues by raising hands when they hear one of these words. They connect the terms to familiar concepts through given comprehension prompts, and visual learners may benefit from the graphic organizers linked here.

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Resource Details

Grade

K - 3rd

Subjects

English Language Arts

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Resource Type

Lesson Plans

Audience

For Teacher Use

Duration

30 mins

Instructional Strategies

Choral Response

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Year

2008

Usage Permissions

Creative Commons

BY-SA: 3.0