Doughnut+Danger

Day 1
LT: I can make inferences about characters and find evidence for what I infer.


 * 1) This book, Doughnut Danger, is about outsmarting the bad guys. Take a look at the cover -- good readers always start by looking at the cover and the Table of Contents to get their brains ready to read. What do you predict?
 * 2) Characters: Max, Mel, and Molly
 * 3) In chapter 1, the mice discover that the rats, who they have been trying to escape, are living in the same doughnut factory they just moved into.
 * 4) Read Ch. 1: What can you infer about the mice? What will they do about the rats? (An inference is sometimes like a prediction) Finger on the evidence.
 * 5) If we have time, start on Ch. 2.?

Day 2
Same learning target.


 * 1) Review Ch. 1.
 * 2) In Ch. 2, the mice go down to the cellar to see what the rats are up to.
 * 3) There's one part where a rat is using a pool "cue." Explain what that is.
 * 4) Custard filling: go over, and look at picture.
 * 5) What can you do when you get stuck on a long, hard word? Look for parts you know, break it into parts or syllables.
 * 6) nervously
 * 7) electric
 * 8) Read the chapter.
 * 9) Inferences: Ricky? Ronnie? What kind of characters? Evidence?
 * 10) "Sneered" -- you can make inferences about words too. How do you infer they were talking?
 * 11) predictions for the next chapter

Day 3

 * 1) Recap of where we left off and learning targets.
 * 2) In Chapter 3, The Missing Mouse, Mel gets trapped by the rats and Molly and Max go to try to help him.
 * 3) What is walking the plank?
 * 4) Go read
 * 5) How did Max rescue Mel?
 * 6) inferring words: vat
 * 7) Pick one character and infer what kind of character he/she is, and find evidence.

Day 4

 * 1) Review what happened last time.
 * 2) In Chapter 4, the mice make a plan to stop the rats.
 * 3) p. 31 conveyor belt -- what is it?
 * 4) Go read.
 * 5) Inferring unknown words from context:
 * 6) gasped p. 27
 * 7) squelching p. 28
 * 8) Making predictions based on other books you've read: make connections to another book you've read where a good guy was fighting a bad guy. What do you predict will happen?

Day 5

 * 1) How do you think the book will end? make predictions
 * 2) mechanical (multisyllabic)
 * 3) Check predictions: were you right?
 * 4) infer: dodging
 * 5) What do you think will happen the next day: to the mice? to the rats?