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Students read "The Lion and the Mosquito." This particular tale has several challenging vocabulary and comprehension words. Students then write their own fairy tale using these new words.

• Copies of fairy tale
• List of challenging words from fairy tale:
  
  

  pesky	relentless	whirring	gazelle	nuisance	hulky
  brazen	abrupt	victory	gloating	premature	snout

• Pass out a print copy of the fairy tale to each student.
  
• Remind class what type of writing a fairy tale is.
  
• Ask the students to highlight or underline any words they do not know as they read.
  
• Discuss with students how they would define what the highlighted or underlined words mean.
  
• Go over the words and have students help you write a sentence using the words.
  
• Make certain all new words on the list are defined.
  
• Have the students use at least five of the new words in a short tale of their own.

Correct use and spelling of the new words in student’s own story.

Reading and Writing K-4


• Generating topics and developing ideas for a variety of writing and speaking purposes (for example, telling a story, publishing a class newsletter, writing a letter to an adult, writing or orally presenting a book report, creating and producing a play, introducing a speaker or an event, narrating a presentation);
• recognizing an author's point of view;
• predicting and drawing conclusions about stories;
  
• differentiating between fact and opinion in written and spoken forms;
  
• using reading, writing, speaking, and listening to define and solve problems;
  
• responding to written and oral presentations as a reader, listener,and articulate speaker;
  
• formulating questions about what they read, write, hear, and view
  

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