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Brave Little Tailor
I can use tricky word strategies to figure out words. I can visualize what I read to help me remember.

Day One

 * 1) This is a story about a tailor who is smarter than most of the other people around him. What is a tailor?
 * 2) p. 4 "blow" -- at one blow. Go over what it means.
 * 3) After the tailor killed the flies, the next challenge he was given was to kill two giants.
 * 4) Review tricky words strategies, and introduce how to skip a word and come back to it. Use as an example:
 * 5) "When they got to the tree, they //laid// down and went to sleep."
 * 6) "After a //while//, he sat down to rest.
 * 7) Go read to page 12. Think about if the tailor was brave or not. Give out cards so they can stop at each page.
 * 8) Come back and share tricky word strategies.
 * 9) Do you think the tailor was brave when he killed the 7 flies? Do you think he was brave later when he did the other feats? Why or why not?

Day Two
Learning target: I can infer things the author doesn't tell me, using clues and evidence from the book.
 * 1) Re-ask if they think the tailor was brave when he killed 7 flies. Did he deserve to get asked to do all these things by the King?
 * 2) How did he defeat the giants? Did he kill them with his own hands? What did he do?
 * 3) Look at p. 14: review what a boar is.
 * 4) Review tricky word strategies. Read to the end. Remind them to keep visualizing.
 * 5) Discuss the story. What do you infer about why the giants started to fight each other? What did the tailor do?
 * 6) Why do you infer the author told this story? What lesson was she trying to teach? What is she saying about bravery? Do you infer that the author thought the tailor was really brave? What was the tailor good at? (Model with a think-aloud if necessary).