Unit 1 Week 4 Day 3: A Fox and a Kit
Animals, Tame and Wild
High Frequency: eat, her, this, too
Comprehension: Main Idea
Grammar: Word Order
Vocabulary (Amazing Words): observe, wild, parent, solo, dangle, nape, medicine, poisonous
(Selection Words): dinner, animals, watch
Reading Comprehension:Character and Setting / Reading Street Book #1
Story: A Fox and a Kit
We are going to read a story about a fox and a kit that live in a zoo.
A fox is a wild animal. A kit is a baby fox.
Look at the pictures in the story A Fox and Kit.
Who are other characters in the story? fox, kit, kids, mom
Look at the pictures in the story again.
Where are the animals in this story? The animals are at the zoo.
The setting is the zoo.
Story Vocabulary
The word “animals” is going to be in our story.
A fox and a kit are animals.
Animals are living things that can move around.
What are animals? Animals are living things that can move around.
Another word in our story is dinner.
Dinner is the main meal of the day.
What is dinner? Dinner is the main meal of the day.
The fox will eat dinner.
Another word in our story is watch.
Watch is to look at something.
What is watch? Watch is to look at something.
The people will watch the fox.
Read A Fox and Kit to the children while they look at the pictures in their own books.
After reading the story ask:
Is this story real or make-believe? real
How do you know that this story is real? A fox can really live at the zoo and take care of her kit.
Story Comprehension
What the fox and the kit do at the zoo? Nap on rock, eat dinner, play.
What is A Fox and Kit mostly about? Is it about what a fox and her kit do, or is it about zookeeper taking care of the foxes? The story is about what a fox and a kit do.
The main idea tells what the story is mostly about.
Is this story about pigs wearing wig? No
Is this story about a cat named Sam? No
Is this story about a fox taking care of her kit? Yes
The main idea of this story is that a fox takes care of her kit.
Grammar:
Action parts of a sentence / The story A Fox and a Kit has a lot of sentences in it.
A sentence is a group of words that tells what somebody did. A sentence begins with a capitol letter and ends with a period.
The words in a sentence need to be in order.
(Write) Eat the kit can.
What does this say? Eat the kit can.
Does this make sense? No
How can we put the words in the right order to make sense?
(Write the sentence as the children tell you.) The kit can eat.
(Write) Sits up the kit.
What does this say? Sits up the kit.
Does this make sense? No
How can we put the words in the right order to make sense?
(Write the sentence as the children tell you.) The kit sits up.
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