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Little Bear's Friend
By Else Holmelund Minarik
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Meet Author
Else Holmelund Minarik

• Else Holmelund Minarik is the author of the
  Little Bear series of children's books, which
  were successful as books, and were also made into
  a successful children's TV series.
• She was born in Denmark. Her family moved to the
  United States when she was four. She taught
  first-graders during WWII.
• She begin writing stories for her students when
  she could not find good books for her first
  graders to read.

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Meet Illustrator
Maurice Sendak

• Maurice Sendak grew up in New York. He was a
  frail and sickly child. Spending much of his
  young life indoors, he turned to books at an
  early age.
• His view of the outside world was often limited
  to the family that came to visit him and the
  little that he could see from his window.
• So he began to draw and to allow his imagination
  to run free.
• One of his best known childrens book is WHERE
  THE WILD THINGS ARE

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Genre Fantasy

• Characters in fantasy stories do impossible
  things.

• Look for
• People talking to animals.
• Animals wearing clothes

Story Summary  Little Bear helps a lost girl
find her way home and makes a new friend.
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Pop Quiz

• What does the author do?
• He or she writes the stories.
• What does the illustrator do?
• He or she draws takes the pictures.

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Glossary Time

1. Put your reading book on your desk.
2. Open your book to the glossary. (The glossary is
   on page 256 in the back of your reading book.)
3. When you see the word Glossary, get ready to
   find the word.

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Hello
hello

• Hello - word said to greet someone

A Glossary Word
Sammy says hello by nodding his head.
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Again
again

• Again - one more time

A Glossary Word
Our teacher is late again.
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Blue
blue

• Blue - color of the sky on a sunny day

The blue whale is a very big whale.
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High
high
High - up above
This goat lives high on the mountain top.
A Glossary Word
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Love
love

• Love - to like very much

A Glossary Word
I just love rainy days.
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Opened
opened

• Opened - not shut

He opened wide so the doctor could take a look
inside.
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Vocabulary Review

• Say the words.
• Read the sentences.
• Fill in the blank.

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Molly likes to go ______ in the swing.

• hello
• opened
• love
• high
• blue
• again

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Hop and Dot _______ their new home.

• blue
• hello
• love
• again
• high
• opened

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They want Ms. Todd to read the story ______.

• high
• hello
• again
• love
• opened
• blue

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This gopher has ________ fur.

• opened
• blue
• again
• hello
• high
• love

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My grandma called to say ____.

• opened
• love
• hello
• blue
• high
• again

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He _______ all but one present.

• love
• hello
• opened
• blue
• again
• high

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Review the Vocabulary Words

1. Hello - word said to greet someone
2. Again - one more time
3. Blue - color of the sky on a sunny day
4. High - up above
5. Love - to like very much
6. Opened - not shut

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Match the words to its meaning.

1. word said to greet someone
2. one more time
3. color of the sky on a sunny day
4. up above
5. to like very much
6. not shut

• blue___
• hello ___
• love ___
• again ___
• opened __
• high ___

C
A
E
B
F
D
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Say the Sight Words

• only
• own
• pick
• seven
• shall

• high
• love
• opened
• myself
• never

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New words in the story Little Bears Friend

• wide
• world
• river
• away
• trees
• house
• could
• wind

nose brush squirrels time lunch climb
four sideways
more worm there treetop basket cookies Emily
skipping
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Enjoy your story.
The End
Anne Miller
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Web Links You should be able to click on these
sites and go to them by pointing and clicking.
Vocabulary Review Little Bear's Friend 1 Little
Bear's Friend 2 Phonics Review y can be a
vowel Test Tutor ow/ou (1) ow/ou (2) Activity 
1  Mixed Blends Activity  2  Mixed Blends
Activity  3  Mixed Blends Activity  4 
Mixed Blends
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Web links for Little Bears Friend

• Coordinating Units
• The 3 Bears
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Packin' For A Picnic
• Match Game
• Brown Bear Facts
• Brown Bear (video)
• Brown Bear (audio)

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Bear Links

• Little Bear's Friend
• Little Bear Book Review
• Interactive Picnic
• Test Tutor Alphabetize
• Online Practice Book
• The NA Bear Center
• Little Explorers
• Bear Quizzes

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Bear Books

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill
  Martin, Jr.Goldilocks and the Three Bears
  J.A. DyerCorduroy Don Freeman
•    Corduroy video A Pocket for Corduroy Don
  FreemanBear Shadow Frank AschMooncake
  Frank AschThe Berenstain Bears Jan and Stan
  Berenstain

• Alphabears  An ABC Book Kathleen
  HagueBedtime for Bears Adelaide HollThe
  Teddy Bears' Picnic Jimmy KennedyWinnie the
  Pooh A.A. MilneLittle Bear Else H.
  MinarikBlueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey 
• Grizzly Bear Grows Up Pearl Wolf
• Bear Stays Up For Christmas Karma Wilson