DEAR JUNO

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DEAR JUNO
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OBJECTIVESStrategy Analyze Story
StructureSkill Character, Setting, Plot

• TODAY WE WILL.
• Analyze the story structure
• Use academic language story structure,
  character, setting, and plot
• Identify character traits, plot, and setting

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VOCABULARY REVIEW

• Crackle
• Make small, sharp, snapping noises
• Announced
• Something told to people in a loud or official
  way
• Soared
• Fly high in the sky
• Starry
• When the sky if full of stars
• Envelope
• Flat paper container that usually holds a letter
  or card
• Photograph
• A picture made with a camera

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STRATEGYAnalyze Story Structure

• Good readers use story structure to understand a
  fiction story
• A storys structure is made up of the plot,
  characters, and setting.

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SKILL Character, Setting, and Plot

• Characters
• The people or animals in a story
• The main characters actions usually move the
  storys plot along
• The main characters traits, or parts of the
  characters personality, usually cause the
  character to act in a certain way.
• A reader can figure out a characters traits by
  identifying how the character feels, what the
  character says and does, and what other people
  say about the character
• Setting
• When and where the story takes place
• Where the actions take place
• Plot
• The events in a story.
• Has a beginning, middle, and end

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PREVIEW PREDICT

• When I say Go, take 1 minute to preview the
  illustrations.
• Ask yourself
• What is this story about?
• Who is the main character?
• On your index card, write your predictions.
  After we listen to the selection, we will see if
  your questions were answered.

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FOCUS QUESTION

• Read to find out
• How does Juno try to communicate with his
  grandmother?
• NOWyou will read along as we listen to.

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DEAR JUNO
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Lets Check our Predictions!

• Share with your criss-cross/shoulder partner your
  questions. Were they answered?
• Did you find clues that gave you information
  about the main character, the setting, and the
  plot?
• Describe how Juno communicated with his
  grandmother.
• TOMORROW WE WILL
• Use our Character Web to answer the
  Comprehension Check on page 67.

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

• Have you ever written a letter to a relative? If
  so, who was it and where does he/she live?