CHALLENGING WORDS
boughtbrothers
chocolate
delight
gleefully
magpie
savor
secretly
stream
trickled
SUMMARY
Miss Jenny bought herself a big block of chocolate, which she intends to eat later. What she does not realize is that eveyone else plans to do the same.--- Conversation Questions---
(1) /Share your favorite part of the story.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.(Follow Up) / Tell your favorite candy bar.
(2) / Imagine you are Miss Jenny, how would you feel when you discovered your chocolate was gone?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Who would you think took it?
(3) / Guess how the magpie feels when he finds a melted candy bar.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Will there be any left?
(4) / Relate this story to a time you saved something and did not get it.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Share how that made you feels.
(5) / Explain what secretly means.
(Answer) / To do something that no one knows about.
(Follow Up) / Share something that you did secretly.
(6) / Explain how everyone planned to eat the chocolate bar.
(Answer) / Secretly.
(Follow Up) / Were they going to share with anyone?
(7) / Name everyone who planned on eating the chocolate.
(Answer) / Miss Jenny, dog, cat, magpie and the and the ant.
(Follow Up) / Who actually got to eat it?
(8) / Tell what happened to the chocolate after it was left in the sun.
(Answer) / It melted and trickled down the tree.
(Follow Up) / Name something else that melts in the sun.
(9) / Tell where the dog put the chocolate bar.
(Answer) / Under a bush.
(Follow Up) / After that, who took it?
(10) / Share who the ant invited to eat with him.
(Answer) / His brothers.
(Follow Up) / How many brothers and sisters do you have?
Activities
1. / Draw a picture of your favorite candy. Then write a few lines of the ingredients, as well as the name.
2. / Make a list of all the candy bars you can think of.
3. / Using the letters in the title, The Big Block of Chocolate, make as many words from the letters that you can think of.
4. / Imagine you just invented a new candy bar. Write an advertisement to introduce it to the public.
Introductions
1. / Have a picture of the sun on the desk. Ask them if they know what the sun does. Ask them to describe what would happen to a candy bar in the sun. Today’s story involves a chocolate bar. Let’s see what happens.
2. / Have a chocolate bar on the table. Tell the students you are saving it for later. That’s just what the girl in our book does. Let’s see when she gets to eat it.
3. / Set up an area like you are having a picnic. Have students to sit down. Ask them what type of insects is attracted to picnics. Let’s see what ants are also attracted to.
Book: The Big Block of Chocolate
Author: Janet Slater Redhead / Illustrator: Christine DaleISBN: / # of Text Pages: 14 AR: N/A LEX: AD510
Building Oral Vocabulary
3 / savor / 11 / trickled / 15 / gleefully
Prediction Questions
3 / Guess when she will get to eat her candy bar.
11 / Now who will get to eat the chocolate?
13 / Do you think they will eat it now or later?