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What Jo Did

What Jo Did. Compiled by: Terry Sams PES. Written and Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith, Jr. Summary.

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What Jo Did

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  1. What Jo Did Compiled by: Terry Sams PES Written and Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith, Jr.

  2. Summary Imagine that you could jump as high as a basket ball rim. That’s exactly what Joanna Marie, or Jo, could do. Jo makes new friends when she shows off her talent during a basketball game in which she is the only girl.

  3. Study Skills • Genre: Fiction • Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect • Comprehension Strategy: Prior Knowledge • Comprehension Review Skill: Draw Conclusions • Vocabulary: Prefixes and Suffixes

  4. Genre: Fiction • Fiction often has characters and events that seem real. Try to picture this story taking place where you live, with people you know.

  5. Comprehension Skill Tested –Cause and EffectTe112 • Aneffectissomething that happens. • Acauseexplainswhyit happens. • Writing may include clue words such as because, in order to, so, and as a result to link causes and effects. • If these words are missing, readers need to think about cause-and-effect relationships on their own.

  6. Question of the WeekTE 142 m • How can we learn to appreciate the talents of others?

  7. Review Questions • What does Joanna do to T.J.’s jump shot? Why does he react the way he does? • Why do the boys ask Joanna to play ball? • Why do you think she hid the fact that she was a girl?

  8. Review Questions • What is the theme or “big idea” of this story? • Which boy changes his attitude the most about Joanna? What are some ways it changed? • Why does T.J. tell her to leave her hat at home at the end of the story?

  9. Vocabulary - Say It • marveled • unbelievable • speechless • swatted • fouled • hoop • jersey • rim

  10. unbelievable incredible; hard to think of as true or real

  11. swatted hit sharply or violently

  12. speechless not able to talk

  13. rim an edge, border, or margin on or around anything

  14. marveled was filled with wonder; was astonished

  15. jersey a shirt that is pulled over the head, made of a soft, knitted cloth

  16. hoop a ring or round flat band

  17. fouled in sports, made an unfair play against

  18. He was unbelievable under the basket!

  19. He was unbelievable under the basket!

  20. The ball bounced off the rim.

  21. The ball bounced off the rim.

  22. Max swatted the ball away and kept it out of the basket.

  23. Max swatted the ball away and kept it out of the basket.

  24. I have always marveled at the way he can play ball.

  25. I have always marveled at the way he can play ball.

  26. Her performance tonight left me speechless.

  27. Her performance tonight left me speechless.

  28. He was fouled by the other player and did not make his basket.

  29. He was fouled by the other player and did not make his basket.

  30. He was bouncing the ball down the court toward the other team’s hoop.

  31. He was bouncing the ball down the court toward the other team’s hoop.

  32. Lots of boys want to wear Peyton Manning’s jersey number.

  33. Lots of boys want to wear Peyton Manning’s jersey number.

  34. Spelling Wordsadding –s and -es • donkeys • batteries • bunches • memories • teammates • counties • scratches • delays • daisies • hobbies

  35. Spelling WordsAdding –s and -es • sandwiches • costumes • companies • months • holidays • taxes • supplies • plays • friends • monkeys

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