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DEAR JUNO

Enhance comprehension skills by analyzing the story structure, character traits, setting details, and plot development using academic language. Engage in vocabulary review and prediction activities to deepen understanding of the text. Evaluate how characters communicate and explore personal connections to letter writing.

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DEAR JUNO

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  1. DEAR JUNO

  2. OBJECTIVESStrategy: Analyze Story StructureSkill: Character, Setting, Plot TODAY WE WILL…. Analyze the story structure Use academic language; story structure, character, setting, and plot Identify character traits, plot, and setting

  3. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Crackle • Make small, sharp, snapping noises • Announced • Something told to people in a loud or official way • Soared • Fly high in the sky • Starry • When the sky if full of stars • Envelope • Flat paper container that usually holds a letter or card • Photograph • A picture made with a camera

  4. STRATEGY:Analyze Story Structure • Good readers use story structure to understand a fiction story • A story’s structure is made up of the plot, characters, and setting.

  5. SKILL: Character, Setting, and Plot • Characters • The people or animals in a story • The main character’s actions usually move the story’s plot along • The main character’s traits, or parts of the character’s personality, usually cause the character to act in a certain way. • A reader can figure out a character’s traits by identifying how the character feels, what the character says and does, and what other people say about the character • Setting • When and where the story takes place • Where the actions take place • Plot • The events in a story. • Has a beginning, middle, and end

  6. PREVIEW & PREDICT When I say “Go”, take 1 minute to preview the illustrations. Ask yourself: • What is this story about? • Who is the main character? On your index card, write your predictions. After we listen to the selection, we will see if your questions were answered.

  7. FOCUS QUESTION • Read to find out… • How does Juno try to communicate with his grandmother? NOW…you will read along as we listen to….

  8. DEAR JUNO

  9. Let’s Check our Predictions! • Share with your criss-cross/shoulder partner your questions. Were they answered? • Did you find clues that gave you information about the main character, the setting, and the plot? • Describe how Juno communicated with his grandmother. TOMORROW WE WILL… • Use our “Character Web” to answer the Comprehension Check on page 67.

  10. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT…. Have you ever written a letter to a relative? If so, who was it and where does he/she live?

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