What's+For+Dinner?

Day 1

 * Introduce the word dinner. What is dinner? What do you like to eat for dinner? What do you think different kinds of animals like to eat for dinner? Why do certain animals eat certain foods?
 * Preview the book: cover, title, predictions, picture walk.
 * On the board: Giraffe tried eating _ __just like__ and Giraffe tried to eat  just like ___. Read them together. (find them in the book and read them together.)
 * Teach how to stop to think about what happened in the story. Model.
 * Review tricky words strategies.
 * Students go read.
 * Share strategies.

Day 2

 * Review how to stop and think about what happens on each page.
 * Review strategies for tricky words.
 * Have students go read to page 7.
 * Come back and have them model what they thought on each page.
 * Introduce Problem and Solution. Ask what the problem is. Explain what a solution is.
 * What solutions has Giraffe tried so far? Model how to fill out the sheet.
 * Students go finish the book.
 * Assign problem / solution worksheet.
 * Comprehension questions:
 * What happened when Giraffe tried to eat the seeds?
 * What is the same about how Giraffe tried to eat bugs and how he tried to eat ants? What is different?
 * How did Giraffe feel at the beginning about eating leaves? How did he feel at the end?