Unit 5

Make me laugh!

Reader's Notebook

  Awful Ogre Takes His Supper - Review

Today's reading selection is on pages 64 to 67, in Literacy in Action 4B.


Pages 64 and 65,  Awful Ogre Takes His Supper, introduced you to the main character of this story. As you worked your way through the story you practiced the predict, infer, and connect strategies.
 



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Open your Literacy in Action 4B textbook to pages 64 & 65. Look at the title, illustration and introductory question. What were your predictions for what was going to happen in this story? Write your new predictions in the Reader's Notebook: Awful Ogre Review worksheet.

Look at the title, illustration and introductory question on page 64. What do you think is going to happen in this story? Are there clues in the picture and introductory sentence? Have you ever been to a restaurant? What kind of events might happen in this story? Have you seen something funny at a restaurant before? If so, you're making a connection with the character in this story!

Connections are not always made to your own life. Sometimes you might make a connection to another story you have heard or read. Does anything on this first page remind you of another story you heard of read?



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Read the story text on page 65.


What can you infer from the line, "I step out to a restaurant, just forty miles from here."? 

Do the words, "Step out" and "Just forty miles" give you a clue about what you can infer?
Think about the term, "Step out" does that make it sound like it is close?
Now think about the line, "Just forty miles from here" does that make it sound close?
From reading these words can we infer that Ogre is really small or really big? 

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  1. This worksheet is similar to homework, which is an opportunity to practise important concepts in the lesson. The worksheet is NOT for marks.
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Awful Ogre Takes His Supper is a good story to review to help understand the predict, infer, connect strategies.


In lesson 1 you predicted what was going to happen from the story title and illustration. Now after reviewing the pages again have you changed your predictions.
What did you infer after reading, "I step out to a restaurant just forty miles from here."? What other inferences can you make based on events in the story and your own experiences in real life (connections)?

Did you also use the infer strategy to figure out any new words? You may have used context (the words that come before and after) to make inferences and connections to find meaning for a word.

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