Ruby+the+Copycat

Day 1
LT: I can infer things about a text the author does not tell me. I can read multisyllabic words by breaking them into syllables.

>> Why do you infer Ruby is copying her?
 * 1) This book, Ruby the Copycat, is about being yourself. What is a copycat? Have you ever known a copycat?
 * 2) Look at the first page. It's Ruby's first day of school. How do you think she's feeling? She comes into Miss Hart's class and sits behind Angela.
 * 3) When the kids start telling about their weekend, Angela says she was a flowergirl in a wedding and then Ruby says she was too! Miss Hart says, "What a coincidence!" What does that mean?
 * 4) Sometimes readers get stuck on long words. Let's remember what you can do when you get stuck on a word. (Review strategies) When it's a long word, a multisyllabic word, you can sometimes figure it out by breaking it into syllables. You can look for parts of the word you know, and you can look for syllabes. (Review closed syllables; mention other kinds).
 * 5) tiptoed
 * 6) announced
 * 7) pleasant
 * 8) Go read to the part when Angela didn't whisper anything.
 * 9) Comprehension: (inferring): Look at RUby when she's painting. What can you infer she's doing? Does the author tell you that?
 * 10) How do you infer Angela was feeling when she didn't say anything?

Day 2

 * 1) Quick recap of book so far and learning targets. (inferring)
 * 2) multi-syllabic words: lavender, scribbled
 * 3) So how do you think Angela was feeling when we stopped reading? (When she didn't say anything) How did her feelings change?
 * 4) Today you're going to read how Ruby keeps copying Angela, and how Angela starts to get really mad.
 * 5) Read to when Ms. Hart says "Have a nice weekend."
 * 6) Inferring:
 * 7) Look at the page when Angela raced home. What changed? What's going on? How are Angela's feelings changing? Why did she race home and come back wearing black?
 * 8) Look at Ms. Hart when she says "What a coincidence." What do you infer she's thinking? What happened with the poems? What is Angela thinking? (look at her face)
 * 9) Look at Ruby on the last page, when she's looking at Ms. Hart's fingernails. What do you infer she's thinking?

Day 3

 * 1) Quick recap of the book -- how has Angela changed? How has Ruby changed?
 * 2) Today we are going to finish the book. And today we will see how Ms. Hart helps Ruby make a change.
 * 3) Look back at the page where Ruby is looking at ms. Hart's fingernails -- what do we predict?
 * 4) Next page: Ms. Hart says she went to the opera. Explain what the opera is.
 * 5) Go read.
 * 6) Were we right that we thought Ruby would start copying Ms. Hart? Then what does Ms. Hart do?
 * 7) Why do you infer Ruby was copying everyone so much?
 * 8) What do you think Ruby learned at the end of the story?
 * 9) What changed with Angela and Ruby?
 * 10) Inferring words: Ruby sprang from her desk.