Revisit each picture to elaborate on story grammar elements (character, setting, initiating event, feelings, plan, attempts, and resolution). Model the use of connecting words, mental verbs, and feeling words.
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Activity: Infer & Elaborate
Standards
Use illustrations in a story to elaborate on details about characters, setting, events, and causal relationships.
Reader Goals
I can infer why characters decide to act in a certain way.
Focus
• Story Language: all of a sudden
• Connecting Words: so, but, because
• Mental Verbs: realizes, decides, remembers, wonders
• Feeling Words: disgusted, confused, curious, excited, happy