Volunteers

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Genre: Realistic Fiction
Written By Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Illustrated By Adjoa J. Burrowes

Destiny's Gift - Read to Me

Story Background

Vocabulary Strategies

Antonyms Flipchart- Destiny's Gift

Synonym & Antonym Video

Synonym & Antonym Word Toss

Antonyms

Antonyms are words that have opposite, or very different, meanings. 

Essential Question 
Why is volunteering good for a

community and its people?

Fluency

Reading Rate

Comprehension 

Target Skill: Understanding

Characters

In most stories, the words and

pictures tell about what the

characters are doing, but how can

we tell what they are

thinking or feeling?  Authors

have many ways to tell about the

characters in a story.  They use clues

such as action words, descriptions, illustrations,

and facial expressions.  We can

also use what we know about real

people and what the story characters

say,think, and do as clues about

the characters' feeling and motives,

or the reasons they act in certain

ways.

As you read a story, you should

ask yourself, "How would I feel?  

Why might I think or act that way?

Why might a real person talk or act

that way?"

Resources

Character Trait Video 1

Character Trait Video #2

Character Trait Video #3

Character Trait Lesson - Videos

Book of Virtues Video

Character Check Sheet and Trait List

Character Traits List

Character Map

Target Skill: Story Message

Theme Video 1

Theme Video 2

Pixar Themes Video

Fables Video

Disney Lesson Video

Target Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate

Good readers analyze or study what they read.  When you analyze the characters in a story, you think about what they did.  Then you evaluate or make judgements about their actions.

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