READ-ALOUDS. in Second Grade. 50 Must-Have Books With Lessons and Activities That Build Skills in Vocabulary, Comprehension, and More

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1 Tehing With Fvorite RED-LOUDS in Seond Grde 50 Must-Hve ooks With Lessons nd tivities Tht uild Skills in Voulry, omprehension, nd More y Susn Lunsford New York Toronto London uklnd Sydney Mexio ity New Delhi Hong Kong uenos ires

2 DEDITION For Ryn & Mddie nd ll the hildren who helped me with this ook. Keep your love of ooks forever! To rd & Mrgo: Your support ws must-hve for this ook of Must-Hve Red-louds. For Tr nd her mzing seond grders:: Your smiles nd hrd work hve mde this ook extr speil! For Jonn nd Srh: Thnks for your guidne nd support. Sholsti In. grnts tehers permission to photoopy the reproduiles from this ook for lssroom use. No other prt of this pulition my e reprodued in whole or in prt, or stored in retrievl system, or trnsmitted in ny form or y ny mens, eletroni, mehnil, photoopying, reording, or otherwise, without permission of the pulisher. For informtion regrding permission, write to Sholsti Professionl ooks, 524 rodwy, New York, NY over design y Josuè stillej over photogrph y Jon Freilih/Getty Interior Design y LDL Designs, sed on design y Srh Morrow Interior illustrtions y Shron Holm opyright 2004 y Susn Lunsford. ll rights reserved. ISN Printed in the U.S

3 ONTENTS INTRODUTION: Stok Your ookshelf With Tempting Must-Hve ooks HPTER 1: NIML HRTER STUDIES 10 Must-Hve ooks for Word Study nd Spelling Prtie Mini-Lesson in tion: Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele y Willim Steig Town Mouse, ountry Mouse y Jn rett George nd Mrth:The omplete Stories of Two est Friends y Jmes Mrshll unny kes y Rosemry Wells rthur s First Sleepover y Mr rown Tky the Penguin y Helen Lester hester s Wy y Kevin Henkes Lyle, Lyle, roodile y ernrd Wer The Gret Grie hse: Stop Tht Dog y ynthi Rylnt Fritz nd the Mess Firy y Rosemry Wells Reproduile hpter 2: HPTER 2: RED LONG WITH ME! 10 Must-Hve ooks for Reding loud nd Reding lone Mini-Lesson in tion: It s Rining Pigs nd Noodles y Jk Prelutsky rn Dne! y ill Mrtin Jr. nd John rhmult 'Tws the Night efore Thnksgiving y Dv Pilkey Hey! Get Off Our Trin y John urninghm Henry nd Mudge Tke the ig Test y ynthi Rylnt Frog nd Tod Together y rnold Loel Giggle, Giggle, Quk y Doreen ronin Drgon Gets y y Dv Pilkey Miss Nelson Is Missing! y Henry llrd Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud y Lynn Plourde Reproduile hpter 2: HPTER 3: WHT DO YOU THINK? 10 Must-Hve Thought-Provoking ooks to Sprk Writing Mini-Lesson in tion: Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Sid the Sloth y Eri rle If You Were Writer y Jon Lowery Nixon My Rotten Redheded Older rother y Ptrii Polo ll the Ples to Love y Ptrii MLhln Sophie Sktes y Rhel Isdor The mzing one y Willim Steig

4 When Jessie me ross the Se y my Hest So You Wnt to e President y Judith St. George erlioz the er y Jn rett The Wednesdy Surprise y Eve unting HPTER 4: FIRY TLE FVORITES 10 Must-Hve ooks for Exploring Literry Elements Mini-Lesson in tion: Goldiloks nd the Three ers retold nd illustrted y Jn rett Goldiloks nd the Three ers retold nd illustrted y Jmes Mrshll The Three Little Pigs retold y Jmes Mrshll The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! y Jon Sieszk hiken Little y Steven Kellogg inderell retold y rr Krlin Priness Furll y hrlotte Huk Lon Po Po y Ed Young The Frog Prine ontinued y Jon Sieszk Streg Non y Tomie depol More Must-Do Firy-Tle tivities Reproduiles HPTER 5: EVERYDY LERNING, OMPUTING, DISOVERING 10 Must-Hve ooks s Springords to Mth nd Siene Mini-Lesson in tion: Jumnji y hris Vn llsurg Rose for Pinkerton y Steven Kellogg rikwing y Jnell nnon loudy with hne of Metlls y Judi rrett lexnder,who Used to e Rih Lst Sundy y Judith Viorst Ir Sleeps Over y ernrd Wer Hrry the Dirty Dog y Gene Zion My Visit to the qurium y liki The Wump World y ill Peet Witing for Wings y Lois Ehlert Reproduiles Must-Hve ooks for Seond Grde Grde 2 Lerning Skills

5 Stok Your ookshelf With Tempting Must-Hve ooks I ws seond grder long efore the dys of videos, DVDs, nd television hnnels tht go ove 100. My hildren find it hrd to elieve I survived suh rri eginning. You men you only hd four hnnels? my son sks in diselief. Yes. It ws wonderful, I nswer s I turn off the television. I hd ookshelf stoked with ooks. nd kyrd where my est friend nd I spent mny memorle dys, ie skting in winter nd riding ikes in summer. When we needed rek, we would gr mthing opies of ooks to red together. lexnder nd the Terrile, Horrile, No Good,Very d Dy, Ir Sleeps Over, nd Frog nd Tod Together were new in 1972 when I ws in seond grde. Susn nd I (yes, her nme is Susn, too) st together under the ok tree in my yrd or the willow tree in hers nd red.we didn t need remote, or VR, ll we needed were mthing opies from our shoolook orders or the lirry. Now, pushing forty, we re reding these sme stories to our kids.the sme ooks we loved s hildren re turning our hildren into reders, too. uthor (on the right) nd her est Susi nd Susn, Septemer 1972: The Red-loud is the most importnt prt of the friend on the first dy of seond grde shool dy for impressing seond grders with just how entertining ooks n e.with every red-loud, you re instilling love of literture nd providing motivtion to lern to red nd to keep reding for lifetime. Sure, there will lwys e hildren who hoose television over ooks, ut most seond grders re eqully impressed with the tempting ooks written y the impressive rry of uthors fetured in this ook of must-hves. So find the must-hve ooks in the pges tht follow. Red them loud with your seond grders for pure Ryn, Mommy, nd Mddie, Septemer 2002: The uthor nd entertinment vlue.then revisit the her hildren her Frog nd Tod Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 5

6 ooks to link the lerning of skills to fvorite hrter, ide, theme, or words tken from their pges. Experiment with the mini-lessons nd tivities in this ook nd dpt them to suit your students needs nd your tehing style. Use some lessons nd tivities for your whole lss nd others for smll-group instrution, or streth some of them over the ourse of severl dys. However you present the ides in this ook, my hope is tht together you nd your students will enjoy yer of ook-sed lerning. Shre the 50 must-hve ooks on the following pges with the seond The uthor s friend Susn reding to her hildren, Srh nd Rhel grders in your life. Sure, they ll proly grow up to love television, videos, nd DVDs, ut hopefully, yers from now, there my e few well-loved piture ooks from seond grde on the shelf with the fvorite movies, just witing to e shred with their hildren somedy, too. Few Words out the Red-loud nd Rih Voulry onnetion It s no surprise tht y their senior yer, students t the top of their lss know out four times s mny words s their lower performing lssmtes. Most hilling, however, write ek, MKeown, nd Kun in ringing Words to Life (pges 1 2), is the finding tht one estlished, suh differenes pper diffiult to meliorte.this is lerly very d news! The good news is tht implementing effetive voulry instrution hs eome priority in elementry shools.tehniques for providing the most effetive nd meningful voulry instrution hve lso een identified. For seond-grde tehers, the most pproprite ple to egin is with dily red-loud, whih gives the opportunity to teh one or two new words. Red-loud time will provide welth of voulry words in meningful ontexts over the ourse of the shool yer. In the pges of my ook, I highlight one or more words from eh of the 50 must-hve red-loud ooks. tivities nd diret exmples from my lssroom illustrte how to est present words from trde ooks to help seond grders ommit new word knowledge to memory nd to pply these newly disovered words in new situtions. 6 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

7 hpter l: niml hrter Studies l0 Must-Hve ooks for Word Study nd Spelling Prtie hpter Lerning Gols: using onventions of spelling in written ompositions identifying spelling ptterns using writing to desrie fmilir situtions nd events inorporting desriptive lnguge into written ompositions inorporting onventions of pitliztion nd puntution in written ompositions understnding ook-relted voulry using vrious strtegies to deode unknown words enjoying gret ooks with niml hrters wishful donkey, two hilrious hippos, unnies who ke kes, roodile who helps with homework, runwy dog, nd n odd penguin re just few of the niml hrters who mke studying words meningful nd motivting in this hpter of must-hve red-louds. Shre eh ook for red-loud, nd then use the words nd themes feturing these fvorite niml hrters to reinfore phonemi nd onventionl spelling, the mehnis of writing, nd voulry. hllenge students to find ll 70 -ed words in Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele. Use phonemi writing to ompile list of pros nd ons for moving with Town Mouse, ountry Mouse, mke shopping list for Mx nd Ruy in unny kes, nd list of things to tke to rthur s First Sleepover. Hone pitliztion nd puntution with sentenes from George nd Mrth. Identify short vowel words used to tell the story of Tky the Penguin. Use pproprite voulry words to omplete story sed on hester s Wy. Go on hunt for words eginning with r-lends with Lyle, Lyle roodile, nd then lssify long vowel words in The Gret Grie hse. Prove the power of djetives with Fritz nd the Mess Firy. Gr opies of these 10 must-hve ooks to give your students etter understnding of how the world of words works. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 10 Must-Hve ooks for Word Study nd Spelling Prtie Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele y Willim Steig Town Mouse, ountry Mouse y Jn rett George nd Mrth:The omplete Stories of Two est Friends y Jmes Mrshll unny kes y Rosemry Wells rthur s First Sleepover y Mr rown Tky the Penguin y Helen Lester hester s Wy y Kevin Henkes Lyle, Lyle, roodile y ernrd Wer The Gret Grie hse: Stop Tht Dog y ynthi Rylnt Fritz nd the Mess Firy y Rosemry Wells 7

8 MINI-LESSON IN TION Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele y Willim Steig LERNING Lerning Word OUT Endings Sylvester Dunn lived with his mother nd fther t orn Rod in Otsdle. One of his hoies ws olleting peles of unusul shpe nd olor. From Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele, pge 3 Rih Voulry remrkle dj. not ordinry Sylvester shivers with exitement when he finds perfetly round, shiny, red pele tht grnts his every wish. Unfortuntely, when men nd hungry lion pprohes nd Sylvester wishes he were rok, this wish omes true.wht kind of mgi will turn Sylvester k into his former donkey self? Just the right mount of suspense, humor, nd hppy ending mke this fvorite ook for young reders.willim Steig's fluent text mkes this perfet ook for studying words with -ed nd -ing endings nd uilding voulry. For fun, ook-sed lesson tht helps students ppreite the vriety of words Willim Steig uses to tell his story, mrk unusul peles (rel or mde from pper or ly) with -ed words from the story. Ple the peles in glss jr, just like Sylvester did on the opening pge. Reord one of the words from the story (shown in their order of pperne on pge 9) on pele for eh student. (For 20 students, opy the first 20 words.) sk students to hold up their peles when they her n ed word s you rered Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele nd then mth the orresponding pele to the word. Supply donkey shpe ut from olored pper for students to mke tlly mrks of the -ed word in the story. Reord the words on hrt s students identify them. Note: Some -ed words re repeted in the story.the numers in prentheses reflet the numer of times word is repeted. 8 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in First Grde

9 -ed Words from Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele lived, stopped, esed, vnished, disppered, existed, grtified, guessed, hppened (4), turned, wished (5), strted, strtled, frightened (2), pniked, sniffed (3), wlked (2), onfused, perplexed, puzzled, ewildered, muttered, sred, worried, imgined, relized (2), ped, styed (2), ried, longed, tlked, smelled, onluded, tried (2), inluded, reminded, followed (3), used, snowed, stred, howled (2), melted, wrmed, udded, showed, insisted, wnted (3), loved, looked (2), lmed Here s how the tivity works in my lssroom. Luke: Wht s in the jr? My olletion of peles to shre with you. Mggie: Just like Sylvester s. Timothy: Did you ring ny mgi peles? We ll soon find out. I d like eh of you to hoose pele from the jr. My olletion of -ed word peles nnie: Hey, this pele hs word on it. George: So does mine! Hold up your peles. Look t the words on these mgi peles. Wht do ll the words hve in ommon? Mtthew: They re words from the story. Jn: Yes, nd they ll hve e-d t the end. mnd: My word is wlked. Tht s wht Sylvester did. Jesse: Oh they re ll doing words. Wlk, sniff, tlk, nd wish, for exmple, re ll tion words. tion words re lled vers. When you dd -ed to ver, the tion hppened in the pst. Luke: So wlk would turn into wlked. Mrs. L: Tht s right. Let s rered Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele. Hold up your mgi pele when you her word tht ends in -ed. We ll identify eh word. Then you ll ple your mthing pele on the hlkord ledge nd mke tlly mrk on the donkey to help us keep trk of the -ed words in the story. I ll write the words on hrt. Here s the first pge: Sylvester Dunn lived with his mother nd fther You re holding up your mgi peles to stop me. Wht ed word did you her? lss: Lived! Look t ll the peles. Who hs the pele with lived on it? Mihel: I hve lived! Mihel, plese put your pele on the hlkord ledge. Then mke tlly mrk on the donkey. (I write lived on the hrt.) Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in First Grde 9

10 If I over the -ed, wht s left? lss: L-i-v. The root word live ends in silent e. So when you wnt to sy, Sylvester lived in Otsdle, you only need to dd d sine live lredy ends in e. (I red the story in its entirety. The disussion elow highlights some sentenes with -ed words nd their different spelling rules.) To his gret surprise the rin stopped lss: Stopped! Den: I hve stopped. Tke off the -ed nd you hve Den: Stop! S-t-o-p-p. Is there n extr p? Some words need n extr letter efore the -ed is dded. If you wnt to write stop, it s s-t-o-p. If you wnt to write stopped, you dd p efore dding e-d. We ll see if Willim Steig used ny more of these speil words. (I ontinue to red.) lss: esed! Wht does esed men? llison: The sme s stopped. esed is my word. When you tke off the -ed, -e--s is left. Tht s ese. Nie reding. ese is nother word with silent e so you only need to dd d to this word to show the rin stopped or esed. I m going to sk you to wit until I ve finished reding the next sentene. ount on your fingers the numer of -ed words you her in this sentene: The drops vnished on the wy down, the louds disppered, everything ws dry, nd the sun ws shining s if rin hd never existed. lss: Three! Luke: I hve v word. It s vnished. Tke off the -ed nd wht s left? Luke: Vnish. V--n-i-s-h. There is word in the sentene tht mens the sme s vnished. Hnnh: Disppered. Tht s my word. D-i-s--p-p-e--r with -ed. Tht s our fifth tlly. I see one more -ed word in tht sentene. nnie: Existed. Jn hs tht one. Jn: I ll put it on the ledge. Let s keep reding: In ll his young life Sylvester hd never hd wish grtified so quikly. lss: Stop! Sydney: You sid grtified. Dvid: It s my word, I think. It strts with g-r. Tht s right. Listen to the sentene gin, nd tell me wht you think grtified mens: In ll his young life Sylvester hd never hd wish grtified so quikly. Sydney: Grnted. His wish ws grnted. Grtified sounds fnier thn grnted. Willim Steig is n expert t using fny words, isn t he? Let s tke the -ed off grtified. Wht s left? 10 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

11 Dvid: Grtify. You ve got it. Spell the root word. lss: G-r--t-i-f-i. lose. There s spelling rule for words like grtify. The lst letter of the root word grtify is y. G-r--t-i-f-y spells grtify. The y hnges to n i efore you dd -ed. Sy this with me. lss: Y hnges to i efore you dd -ed. Nie jo! k to the story: It struk him tht mgi must e t work, nd he guessed tht the mgi lss: Guessed. Good listening. Look round. Guess who hs the word guessed. y: Jke does! Jke: I guess I do! Tke off the -ed nd you hve Jke: Guess. G-u-e-s-s. No spelling rules there. You just dd the -ed. I ll keep reding: I wish it would rin gin. Nothing hppened. lss: Hppened! Mggie: I hve it! Hppen is wht s left when you tke off the -ed. Right! ut when he sid the sme thing holding the pele in his hoof, the sky turned lk Timothy: Stop! I hve tht one. The word is turned. over up the ed, nd it s turn. (We ontinue reding the next three pges nd reord five tlly mrks for wished, two for frightened, nd one eh for strted, strtled, nd pniked. Our mini-lesson ontinues s Sylvester turns into rok on Strwerry Hill.) 'I wish I were rok,' he sid, nd he eme rok. Now listen to the next two sentenes without stopping me. ount on your fingers the numer of -ed words you her. The lion me ounding over, sniffed the rok hundred times, wlked round nd round it, nd went wy onfused, perplexed, puzzled nd ewildered. I sw tht little donkey s ler s dy. Mye I m going rzy, he muttered. rrie: Six. Kristen: No, seven! Smile if you ounted seven -ed words in tht sentene! Mggie: They were fny ones, too. I ll red the prgrph gin slowly. Hold up your peles to stop me so we n identify the seven triky -ed words: The lion me ounding over, sniffed the rok hundred times hris: Sniffed is my word. Does sniff hve n extr f? No, ut I n see why you might think so. Stopped did hve n extr p. Sniff is spelled s-n-i-f-f. Here s the rest of tht sentene: wlked round mnd: Stop! I hve wlked. Gret. The lion wlked round nd round it, nd went wy onfused Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 11

12 Dvid: Stop! My pele hs onfused on it. Tke the -ed off, nd you hve -o-n-f-u-s. onfuse ends in silent e so you only Dvid: dd d. Right. I ll keep reding: perplexed, puzzled nd ewildered. lss: Stop! Stop! Stop! Jenny: He s relly onfused. Sylvester relly triked him. ll those words men onfused or triked, don t they? Yes. Let s dd these peles to the hlkord ledge. Jenny: I think I hve one of them. P-e-r-p-l-e-x-e-d is on my rok. Mihel: Tht s perplexed. Joel: I hve ewildered. ewildered. Good. Jesse: I ve got the lst pele. I ll red the next thing the lion sys: 'I sw tht little donkey s ler s dy. Mye I m going rzy, he muttered. Jesse: My word is muttered. Luke: Tht must e ll the -ed words there re in the story. llison: I et there re more thn tht. The story isn t over yet. Throughout the dy, we ontinue reding nd writing the remining -ed words in Sylvester nd the Mgi Pele.To the students surprise, they find tht Willim Steig used totl of 70 words with the -ed ending in his story.the importne of this speil ver ending is proven meningful. ON NOTHER DY We orgnize the words y the unique spelling rules used. Just dd -ed to these words existed hppened turned wished frightened sniffed ewildered styed wlked pniked* perplexed guessed muttered longed tlked disppered vnished smelled reminded followed snowed howled melted wrmed showed insisted wnted looked lmed * dd k nd then ed. Just dd -d to words tht end in silent e lived esed strtled onfused puzzled sred imgined onluded relized ped used stored inluded loved Doule the finl onsonnt nd then dd -ed stopped udded hnge y to i nd then dd -ed grtified worried ried tried 12 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

13 More Must-Hve ooks For Word Study nd Spelling Prtie LERNING OUT Town Mouse, ountry Mouse y Jn rett Reinforing Spelling This is the life! Wildflowers, spring peepers. If only we lived here! The ountry mie rept out. You like it here? they sked. Why, we ve lwys wnted to live in town house. The town mouse offered them nile of heese. Why don t we trde houses? he sid. From Town Mouse, ountry Mouse, pge 7 Wht hppens when two town mie trde homes with two ountry mie? They ome to the understnding tht there s no ple like home. In this lssi tle eutifully retold nd illustrted y Jn rett, the pitures eg to e pored over so reders n tke in the multitude of detils.the eded nd ejeweled outfits worn y the town mouse wife nd the town mouse husnd s too right red jket ttrt the ttention of urious lkird.the humle ountry mie wer strw ht nd ushk, nd you get the unnny feeling tht the hungry t in flowered tpestry vest might jump right out of the ook in its serh for them.this ook is fvorite of seond grders. Lst spring, s I prepred myself for possile move from town to ountry, I relted to the feelings experiened y the mie in this ook. It wsn t s esy s swithing keys nd moving in; I hd to weigh the options nd ept tht some lifestyle hnges would e required. ut unlike the town mie, my husnd nd I mde list of pros nd ons for our fmily s move from town to the ountry.when I wrote down no pizz delivery under ons, my husnd suggested this ould e pro our pizz delivery svings ould py for our son s ollege edution (h h). Rih Voulry exlimed v. sid in n exited voie envy v. to wnt something tht elongs to nother Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde It ourred to me tht pretending to e town mie prepring for permnent move to the ountry would generte thoughtful disussions mong my seond grders. fter rereding the story, I sked my students to help me omplete pros-nd-ons list on whih the town nd ountry mie ould se their deisions to move or to sty. We egn with the town mie. Students reorded their ides on hrt y using sound-spelling.together, we reorded the min sounds in the words s shown. Endings, lends, nd vowel sounds 13

14 were reinfored with meningful spelling prtie. Students gve more resons for stying in town; like the mie, they felt tht there ws no ple like home. Moving from Town to the ountry dvntge s: - fresh ir, wildflowers - no t prowling the house - quiet nd peeful life - wild lkerries for every mel - no dngerous ttempts to reh food in the pntry - eutiful senery - no more mousetrps Disdvntge s: - getting ught in storms while serhing for food - nerly getting rried wy y urious lkird - nnot wer rightly olored lothes - miss the sounds of town, the hustle nd ustle - no more smell of heese to mke whiskers tingle - feeling lone - ts with wings (owls) - not knowing wht to expet in new ple - lots of different dngerous nimls to void ON NOTHER DY Hve smll groups work on similr list of dvntges nd disdvntges to help the ountry mie deide whether or not to move into town. Note: My fmily nd I relized we were town mie t hert.we re hppily settled in new town house, not ountry house. George nd Mrth: The omplete Stories of Two est Friends y Jmes Mrshll LERNING OUT pitliztion nd Puntution In his touhing foreword to this ook, Murie Sendk desries Jmes Mrshll s someone who rised the rt of friendship to new height. Mrshll s two omil hippos, George nd Mrth, n teh hildren thing or two out friendship; through jokes, jos, irthdys, pinis nd sry movies, George nd Mrth re est friends. Mrshll s simple skethes, his use of olor, nd ompelling squiggly line eyes ring these two hrters to life. George nd Mrth:The omplete Stories of Two est Friends is 25th- 14 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

15 nniversry nthology tht inludes ll seven George nd Mrth ooks. Eh of the seven ooks ontins five vignettes for totl of 35 stories. These ooks re lso in print individully: George nd Mrth (1972), George nd Mrth Enore (1973), George nd Mrth Rise nd Shine (1976), George nd Mrth One Fine Dy (1978), George nd Mrth Tons of Fun (1980), George nd Mrth k in Town (1984), nd George nd Mrth Round nd Round (1988). Shre ny George nd Mrth ook for red-loud, nd students will eome instnt fns. Let the ntis of these two hilrious hippos energize few lessons on pitliztion nd puntution.write two sets of sentenes Rih Voulry from George nd Mrth k in Town. Use one set to introdue the pitliztion of proper nouns nd the first letters of sentenes. Disuss the proper plement of periods, exlmtion points, nd omms fter series of words. mused v. entertined fidgeting v. unle to sit still dd missing pitl letters, periods (.), exlmtion mrks (!), nd omms (,) to these sentenes from George nd Mrth k in Town. 1. mrth notied little ox on george's kithen tle 2. out jumped george's entire olletion of mexin jumping ens 3. mrth it her nils while george pulled off the rion 4. out jumped one ruer trntul one stuffed snke four plsti spiders nd two rel frogs 5. everyone ws impressed 6. ut soon mrth ws fidgeting Use the other set of sentenes to hve students put quottion mrks round the words tht George nd Mrth sy to eh other. For n dded hllenge, sk students to identify whih of the five short stories eh sentene is from: The ox, The High ord, The Trik, The Jo, or The ook. dd the missing quottion mrks ( ) to these sentenes from George nd Mrth k in Town. 1. Oh my strs, sid Mrth. 2. I m not the nosy type, sid Mrth. 3. Egds! ried George. I ve een triked! 4. I just didn t feel like it tody, sid George. 5. This will utter her up, he sid. 6. No horsing round! he lled through his megphone. MORE FUN WITH THE OOK fter reding George nd Mrth:The omplete Stories of Two est Friends, hllenge students to write omplete sentenes using pitliztion nd puntution to nswer the following trivi Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 15

16 questions out the ook. Rered the short stories (in prentheses) s students hek their trivi nswers. George nd Mrth Trivi Questions 1. Wht did George do to Mrth s mirror? Why did he do it? ( The Mirror ) 2. How did George get gold tooth? ( The Tooth ) 3. Wht re Mrth s fvorite flowers? ( The Grden ) 4. Did Mrth get k t George for squirting her with the hose? ( The Surprise ) 5. Wht did Mrth uy George for his irthdy? Wht hppened to this gift? Wht did George relly get for his irthdy? ( The Speil Gift ) 6. Wht did George uy Mrth for her irthdy? Wht did Mrth do with this present? ( The Speil Gift ) 7. Who ws the touhy rtist? ( The rtist ) 8. Why did George wnt to hypnotize Mrth? ( The Hypnotist ) 9. Wht did Mrth do to get George to ut down on his sweets? ( The Sweet Tooth ) 10. Where did George nd Mrth go on their trip? ( The Trip ) TEHING TIP To mke ssessment nd reording words during word-study lessons more fun, provide students with pper ut in different shpes relted to the story. Tre simple shpe onto lnk sheet of pper nd ut multiple opies so eh student n hve one or two shpes. nn shpes work well with the groery-list tivity for unny kes; flshlight shpes re fun to use with rthur's Sleepover; nd roodile shpes re perfet to use with Lyle, Lyle roodile. LERNING OUT unny kes y Rosemry Wells Reinforing ook-spelling It ws Grndm s irthdy. Mx mde her n erthworm irthdy ke. No, Mx, sid Mx s sister, Ruy. We re going to mke Grndm n ngel surprise ke with rsperry-fluff iing. From unny kes, pge 3 Rih Voulry egerly dv. with exitement Poor Mx. His kithen mishps led to four different trips to the groery store so his older nd rther ossy sister, Ruy, n omplete Grndm s ngel surprise irthdy ke with rsperry-fluff iing.wht Mx relly wnts is some red-hot mrshmllow squirters for the erthworm ke with terpillr iing he is mking for Grndm. 16 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

17 Unfortuntely, the groer n t red the words Mx hs dded to Ruy s lists. ut Mx s persistene pys off.when the most eutiful writing he knew doesn t get results, he drws piture of red-hot mrshmllow squirters insted. Shre this must-hve ook feturing the siling tem of Mx nd Ruy for red-loud while giving students some prtil groery list writing prtie. Prior to the red-loud, pss out pper for students to write their lists on (see the previous Tehing Tip), penils, nd lp ords. s you red the story, hve students mke list of the items Ruy needs from the store. Enourge sound-spelling rther thn opying the words from the illustrtions. Following the red-loud, tlk out how Ruy used ook-spelling for her words nd how Mx s persistene resulted in ox of red-hot mrshmllow squirters. On hrt pper, demonstrte ook-spelling for the words milk, eggs, flour, irthdy ndles, sugr herts, nd utterrem roses. Disuss onventions of spelling suh s the following: onsonnt lends in flour nd rem ompound words (irthdy nd utterrem) long vowel ptterns in roses nd rem short vowel ptterns in milk, eggs, ndles, nd utter Mention tht some words, like sugr nd herts, re exeptions to spelling rules; ook-spelling for these words must e ommitted to memory. Hve students hek their lists for ook-spelling nd mke ny neessry orretions. Disuss Mx s ttempts t spelling red-hot mrshmllow squirters so tht the groer ould deipher his writing. hllenge pirs of students to dd red-hot mrshmllow squirters to their groery lists using ook-spelling. Insted of writing this on the lss hrt, provide spelling hints tht guide students until they hve hieved ook-spelling for the words: Think of mrshmllow s ompound word. Red nd hot re short vowel pttern words. Squirters is n r-ontrolled word. Students n e enourged y Mx s trynd-try-gin ttitude nd meet with spelling suess of their own. LERNING OUT rthur s First Sleepover y Mr rown ompound Words Introdue rthur s First Sleepover y sking, Hve you een to sleepover? fter tllying the results, meet for red-loud of rthur, uster, nd the rin s first sleepover in rthur s kyrd tent. Red to find out if rthur nd his friends relly do get ny sleep t the sleep- Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 17

18 over, nd if D.W. mkes it into the Ntionl Requirer for seeing n lien. Rered rthur s First Sleepover, nd sk students to stop you eh time they her ompound word. Mr rown uses 12 ompound words to tell this story: sleepover, homework, rekfst, everyone, speship, edtime, fternoon, nnonlls, outside, sleeptime, flshlight, sell. ON NOTHER DY For more prtil list writing prtie following the red-loud, provide time for prtners to write things they would need for sleepover. Meet together for students to shre their lists. s you hrt the words in ook-spelling, hve students mke hnges to reflet this spelling. Highlight spelling onventions s illustrted in the smple list elow: sleeping g toothrush pillow Things Needed for Sleepover hnge of lothes flshlight Teddy er pjms sell rds or gme sr y ooks om or rush slippers toothpste Rih Voulry ommuniting v. wy of getting n ide to someone else LERNING OUT Tky the Penguin y Helen Lester Short Vowel Sounds There s something to e sid out eing your own person or penguin! While the penguins Goodly, Lovely, ngel, Netly, nd Perfet mrh, dive, sing, nd greet eh other extly the sme wy,tky hs his own wy of doing things. ut when Tky s fst thinking sves his ompnions nd him, the other penguins develop helthy respet for Rih Voulry lred v. sid something loudly nd suddenly Tky s odd wys nd re thnkful he s round. uthor nd former seond-grde teher Helen Lester knows just wht it tkes to write must-hve ook for this ge group. Red it gin! is the response shouted y my students every yer when I shre Tky the Penguin s red-loud. Seond grders giggle t Tky s odd wy of mrhing, his silly song out how mny toes fish hs, nd his 18 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

19 splshy nnonll dives. Lynn Monsignor s omi portryls of the ompnion penguins perfetly omplement Helen Lester s rolliking text. Tky the Penguin hs just the right mount of text per pge for short vowel word prtie. Identify Tky s the short vowel guide word. Disuss whether words suh s k, st, nd pk hve the sme vowel sound s Tky. Emphsize the short vowel sound y drwing out the. Following red-loud of the ook, hve students olor nd ut out smll drwing of Tky on 3-y-5-inh index rd.they n tpe the drwings to Popsile stiks to mke Tky the Penguin puppets. Then gther students for rereding of the ook. sk them to flsh their Tky puppets eh time they her short word in the story. Students my opy the words onto sheet of pper to reinfore spelling of short words.you my lso wnt to inlude seprte list of r-ontrolled nd n-ontrolled vowel words found in the story. Tky words r-ontrolled words n-ontrolled words slp mps k trps hppening tht s splshy sked hve s hd lsped mrh(ed) dollr ompnions rn nd distne lnd mny n hnds hnting stnd nnonlls ON NOTHER DY Rered Tky the Penguin to identify short e nd i words using the two syllles in pen-guin s referene word. LERNING OUT hester s Wy y Kevin Henkes Reinforing Sound-Spelling HESTER hd his own wy of doing things... He lwys ut his sndwihes digonlly. He lwys got out of ed on the sme side. nd he never left the house without doule-knotting his shoes hester s est friend Wilson ws extly the sme wy From hester s Wy, pges 5 6, 8 Help students lern tht three n e rowd of fun sed on this delightful story. hester nd Wilson re pprehensive when Lilly moves into Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde Rih Voulry originl dj. hving your own wy of doing things 19

20 the neighorhood.then she sves them from some rude oys with one of her nifty disguises, nd the three eome inseprle. From rking leves nd wering sunsreen to popping wheelies nd doule knotting their shoes, they do things their wy. For fun, hve your students introdue themselves in story tht follows the pttern of Kevin Henkes s hester s Wy. Mke opies of the reproduile on pge 24. Hve students omplete the story using sound-spelling. Provide time for shring nd disussing the similrities nd differenes mong students. During this disussion, introdue the following voulry words from the story: rude dj. without mnners nifty dj. net, ool inseprle dj. n t e without eh other disguised v. hnged the wy someone looks Seth s Wy or sounds Inorporte the words into desriptions suh s the following:. Mggie s little rother n e rude. rrie lwys wers nifty shoes. Sydney nd Kristen re inseprle nd ply together ll the time. To sound like his older rother, Mtthew disguised his voie. LERNING OUT Lyle, Lyle, roodile y ernrd Wer Word Endings ernrd Wer s roodile, Lyle, hs een entertining young udienes sine For Lyle fns, the ide of hving pet roodile tht sings, dnes, nd helps with homework is wesome. Lyle s fmily, the Primms, feels the sme wy. ut Mr. Grumps nd his t Lorett who live two houses wy re less thn impressed with the Primms unusul pet; in ft Lyle mkes them miserle. So Mrs. Primm nd her roodile keep low profile for while.then Mr. Grumps mkes good on promise, nd Lyle is sent to live t the zoo. Red the story of Lyle, Lyle roodile, nd puse t the pge where Lyle is sprung from the zoo y Hetor P. Vlenti, str of stge nd sreen.sk: Wht n Lyle do to e welomed y 20 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

21 Mr. Grumps s neighor gin? Disuss possile endings, nd then red the rest of the story to hek preditions. My seond grders re lwys impressed with ernrd Wer s hoie to hve Lyle resue Mr. Grumps nd Lorett from their urning house. Following the red loud, use Lyle, Lyle roodile to ssess students. Provide them with roodile-shped pper (see the Tehing Tip on pge 16), nd settle them in for pge-y-pge rereding of the story. Prior to reding eh pge, sk question suh s the following to ssess their understnding of word endings, pitliztion, nd more. ssessing with Lyle, Lyle, roodile Reord word tht: ends in -ing (pges 6 7: living, helping) ends in -ed (pge 9: wnted, frightened) ends in -st (pge 10: urst, fist) ends in silent e (pge 11: tke) ends in -ly (pge 13: terrily) ends in -est (pge 14: nerest) needs pitl letter (pge 3: Mr. nd Mrs. Primm, Joshu, Lyle) hs 3 syllles (pge 5: roodile) hs the prefix un- (pge 8: unhppy) hs the short i sound (pge 12: skip) Rih Voulry oxing v. trying to onvine someone to do something The Gret Grie hse: Stop Tht Dog y ynthi Rylnt LERNING OUT Long Vowels...Grie loved quiet house. She loved the kitty sleeping on the windowsill, the ig dog sleeping on the ouh, the quiet fish going ploop-ploop. For Grie, quiet home ws the est home. Grie Rose ws good every single dy of her life exept for one... the dy the pinters me. From The Gret Grie hse, pge 5 On the dy the pinters me, Grie rked nd rked nd rked nd told them to go outside. Grie ws put outside insted, nd even though she knew she wsn't supposed to go through the gte y herself, she did. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde Rih Voulry ommotion n. n event tht uses disorder 21

22 Everyone in the neighorhood the pinters, the grge mn, the pperoy, nd the delivery womn hsed fter the run-wy Grie. Soon the whole town ws wthing or running in the Gret Grie hse.the old pintings y Mrk Tegue omplement the lively text desriing Grie s hse to mke this must-hve for red-loud. Shre this story to find out how silly little Grie gets home to her quiet house gin. For prtil word-skill prtie, rered the story to find out how mny long words ynthi Rylnt uses to tell the story of The Gret Grie hse. Hve students mke STOP signs like the one shown y utting irle out of red onstrution pper, writing STOP on the front, nd tping to tongue depressor.s you rered the story, hve students hold up their stop signs every time they her long word like Grie nd hse! hrt the words, nd lssify them y silent e,two vowels wlking together, or other long sounds s in gret. silent e Stop for Long 2 vowels wlking together other long sounds nmed me gte hse tke mde pinters pint hirs stright ir pinter gret (first vowel does the wlking, not the tlking) Grie pperoy snittion hlfwy sy neighors gret For more long vowel prtie, hve students listen for words with long e, i, nd o sounds in the story. LERNING OUT Fritz nd the Mess Firy y Rosemry Wells djetives Hve you lened up your room yet, Fritz? sked Fritz s mother. I will! shouted Fritz. Fritz stuffed month s lundry, twelve heps of old Hlloween ndy, hlf dozen wet towels, six silver ie rem spoons stuk to six dessert pltes, three lirry ooks with Popsile stik ookmrks, nd penut utter nd jelly sndwih ll under his ed... From Fritz nd the Mess Firy, pges Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

23 When Fritz s siene experiment goes hywire, he meets the messiest of visitors, the Mess Firy.The meeting inspires Fritz, who is mster-messmker himself, to ome len.will his prents meet the new Fritz in the morning? Prents, tehers, nd hildren like ppreite the humor nd wisdom Rosemry Wells rings to this must-hve ook. Demonstrte the power of djetives with sentene desriing wht lies under Fritz s ed. First disuss whih of the following ides sounds more exiting: lundry or month s lundry ndy or twelve heps of old Hlloween ndy towels or hlf dozen wet towels spoons or six silver ie rem spoons stuk to six dessert pltes ooks or three lirry ooks with Popsile stik ookmrks sndwih or penut utter nd jelly sndwih Rih Voulry shmles n. omplete mess hurled v. threw Students unnimously gree tht the extr effort of dding few words pints more vivid piture. Next disply the piture on pge 5. sk students to tke turns listing items found in the hep t the foot of Fritz s ed. dd djetives to prtie pinting pitures with words. Here re few of our fvorite desriptions of Fritz s mess: t to old rked sell t sell to muddy sell top to red-nd-lue striped top ns to four empty sod ns ll to deflted soer ll elephnt to stuffed elephnt with ripped til ooks to three overdue lirry ooks MORE FUN WITH THE OOK Get extr milege from Fritz nd the Mess Firy with purposeful reredings nd follow-up spelling tivities. Explore synonyms for sid nd phoneti spelling y listing the different words Rosemry Wells uses when hrter is tlking: sked, shouted, yelled, grumled, intoned, squeled, sng, nswered, whispered, nd murmured re gret words for seond grders to ommit to memory s replements for the overused sid. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde Even More Must-Hve ooks for Word Study nd Spelling Prtie Me First y Helen Lester Shy hrles y Rosemry Wells Disy omes Home y Jn rett omet's Nine Lives y Jn rett Lyle Finds His Mother y ernrd Wer The House on Est 88th Street y ernrd Wer Lovele Lyle y ernrd Wer Lyle nd the irthdy Prty y ernrd Wer 23

24 Nme Dte s Wy Hello, my nme is. I like nd nd. I lwys. I never. For rekfst, I lwys hve. I lwys rry with me. Just in se. I love to go. In spring, I. In winter, I. In fll, I. nd in summer, I. I definitely hve my own wy of doing things! Use with hester's Wy y Kevin Henkes. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 24

25 hpter 2: Red long With Me! l0 Must-Hve ooks for Reding loud nd Reding lone hpter Lerning Gols: mking simple inferenes regrding the order of events mking preditions out possile outomes of story using self-orretion strtegies when reding using struturl, mening, nd piture lues to determine wht mkes sense in story relting stories to personl experienes identifying the setting, min events, min hrters, sequene, nd prolems in stories spelling level-pproprite words using spelling ptterns reding fmilir stories, poems, nd pssges with flueny nd expression Time for reding loud nd reding lone should e prt of every dy of seond grde.llowing time for eginning reders to put newfound skills to the test during independent reding time is vitl. Eqully importnt to eginning reders is the motivtion tht red-loud time provides. Get students reding long nd ounting syllles with Jk Prelutsky s It s Rining Pigs nd Noodles.Toes will e -tppin nd students -redin with expression in horl rereding of rn Dne! Identify min hrters, setting, nd sequene the order of events with Tws the Night efore Thnksgiving. Reinfore flueny during role-ply of Hey! Get Off Our Trin. Demonstrte the use of reding lues to deode words with Henry nd Mudge Tke the ig Test. Let Frog nd Tod Together provide more prtie in ordering events. Then Giggle, Giggle, Quk with Duk nd his rnyrd friends. Use Drgon Gets y to model how to self-orret reding misues. Relte to the experienes of the kids in room 207, nd then prtie using terrile kid nd Viol Swmp voies for red-long of Miss Nelson Is Missing!. Find loud-mouth nd frustrted voies for performne of Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud. The ten must-hve red-louds fetured in this hpter will hve seond grders egging to red long nd then red lone. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 10 Must-Hve ooks for Reding loud nd Reding lone It s Rining Pigs nd Noodles y Jk Prelutsky rn Dne! y ill Mrtin Jr. nd John rhmult Tws the Night efore Thnksgiving y Dv Pilkey Hey! Get Off Our Trin y John urninghm Henry nd Mudge Tke the ig Test y ynthi Rylnt Frog nd Tod Together y rnold Loel Giggle, Giggle, Quk y Doreen ronin Drgon Gets y y Dv Pilkey Miss Nelson Is Missing! y Hrry llrd Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud y Lynn Plourde 25

26 MINI-LESSON IN TION It s Rining Pigs nd Noodles y Jk Prelutsky Rih Voulry ssorted dj. different kinds Lerning Syllles nd Rhyming Words LERNING OUT It s silent reding time in my seond-grde lssroom.you ould her pin drop s I reh for the three fvorite Jk Prelutsky ooks tht I keep on my desk. Glning t the lss list inside the front over of eh, I identify the luky winners: Sydney, it s your turn to red The New Kid on the lok. Mihel, you my red Pizz the Size of the Sun, nd llison, you my hve Something IG Hs een Here. These three students quikly rush to my desk for the oveted ooks. Following our red-loud of seleted Jk Prelutsky poems, I would wth students re to the silent reding lirry eh dy in md stmpede for these ooks. Introduing sign-up sheets nd keeping the ooks on my desk eme neessity for sfety resons s well s ensuring tht everyone hd equl time with Jk Prelutsky s rhyming, zny, kid-friendly ooks. It s Rining Pigs nd Noodles, one of the ltest ook from the Jk Prelutsky-Jmes Stevenson duo, hs reted similr stir in my lssroom.with poems like The hiken lu, The unny us, My Prents Hve the Flu Tody, The Yks onvened Meeting, Never Poke Your Unle with Fork, Winding Through Mze, urp, nd I m Stnding in the orner, it s no wonder hildren go wild over these ooks. From teher s perspetive, there s no etter wy to get kids reding with expression nd flueny thn to give them opportunities to red these poems independently.whether they re eginning or vid reders, ll students pore over the nonsensil lyris when pled one-on-one with It s Rining Pigs nd Noodles; they re motivted to red the ook for themselves. Prior to our red-loud, I hrt the title poem, deleting some words nd dding some eginning letter lues. I lso mke opy for eh student.then we explore syllles, rhyming words, flueny, nd expression. 26 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

27 nnie: Kristen: y: hris: Timothy: lss: lss: Jenny: lss: George: Den: lss: lss: lss: Joel: Wht is it out Jk Prelutsky s poems tht mkes us wnt to red them gin nd gin? The silly words. The rhymes. The et. The funny pitures The first time I red this ook, I'd red poem nd sy to myself, This is my fvorite! Then I d red the next pge nd think, No, wit, this is my fvorite. Then I relized tht I liked every poem on every pge! To give you tste of these fun poems, I ve hrted the title poem, It s Rining Pigs nd Noodles. (I red the first prt of the poem sying lnk for the missing words.) It s rining pigs nd noodles, it s pouring frogs nd hts, hrysnthemums nd p(lnk), nns, rooms, nd (lnk). ssorted prunes nd prrots re dropping from the (lnk), here omes unh of (lnk), some hippopotmi. Some words re missing. You re right. One we identify the pttern of the poem, we n fill in the missing words. Jk Prelutsky is mster t mking words fit pttern. He uses syllles to rete the pttern. Red the first two lines with me. It s rining pigs nd noodles, it s pouring frogs nd hts. Now red the first line gin. ount the syllles on your fingers with me s I write the numer of ets elow eh word: It s rin-ing pigs nd nood-les, It hs seven ets. I ll write seven for seven syllles next to this line of the poem. ount the syllles on your fingers s you red line two. It s pouring frogs nd hts. I ounted seven ets gin. No, six. Let s ount it together. Put finger up for eh et: It s One. pour-ing Two-three. frogs nd hts Four, five, six. Tht s six! The pttern so fr is seven ets, six ets. Let s try to fill in the next line to mke totl of seven ets. The first word in line three is triky. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 27

28 Mggie: I rememer it hrysnthemum. Exellent rememer! There is more thn one so it s tully lss: hrysnthemums. Let s use lines to divide hrysnthemums into hunks to see how mny syllles it hs. Sy it slowly. Wht is the first et? hris: r. Mtthew: You should put the y with the first prt. Luke: The next prt is sn. Gret. hry-sn Dvid: the Jesse: Then mums. Wow! Tht s four-et word! Jke: nd mkes five ets, so we need two-et word. Hnnh: nd it hs to strt with p. Is there nything else you n tell me out this word? George: I et it rhymes with hts. Sydney: No, pts n t fll like rin. It rhymes with either noodles or pigs. mnd: Pigs isn t t the end of the line. I et the word rhymes with noodles. So we need two-et word tht strts with p nd rhymes with noodles. Jenny: Poodles! hrysnthemums nd poodles Jn: Tht mkes seven ets for this line. Gret! Keep reding. lss: nns, rooms, nd Kristen: ts! You need word tht rhymes with hts. Tht s ts euse ts re flling like rin, too. Let s ount the syllles in this line to see if it fits the pttern. We ll drw lines on nns to show the syllles. Dvid: -nn-s. Mggie: It s three-et word. Joel: rooms nd ts mkes three more ets: three plus three mkes six ets. Exellent! Jk Prelutsky did mke seven-six-seven-six pttern. The rhythm of these syllles mke it fun to red the poem out loud. Let s red the first four lines ll together. lss: It s rining pigs nd noodles, it s pouring frogs nd hts, hrysnthemums nd poodles, nns, rooms, nd ts. Let s find out if the next four lines follow the pttern. ssorted prunes nd prrots re dropping from the (lnk), here omes unh of (lnk), some hippopotmi. Kristen: I think the prunes nd prrots re dropping from the sky. There s no eginning letter lue for this line. ut it does mke sense tht these things would fll from the sky. Kristen: It hs to e sky. 28 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde

29 Let s ount the syllles in these next two lines. Put up finger s I red, plese: s-sort-ed prunes nd pr-rots lss: Seven ets! re drop-ping from the sky. lss: Six ets! Timothy: It follows the pttern! Here omes unh of (lnk). Wht do you know out this missing word? Mtthew: It strts with. hris: Here omes unh hs four ets. Luke: Of is one-et word. Tht mkes five ets. So it hs to e two-et word tht strts with. Tht will mke seven ets in tht line. mnd: nd it hs to rhyme with prrots. Mihel: It s rrots. Here omes unh of rrots. rrots do ome in unhes. I think you re right! How mny ets does the line hve? lss: One, two, three, four, five, six-seven. llison: Tht s seven ets! Look t the long word t the end of the next line. Let s rek it prt y syllles: hip-po-pot--mi (I stress the syllles s I sy the word). Hnnh: Hip. Timothy: Po. Luke: Pot. Jesse:. Mihel: Mi! Doesn t he men hippopotmus? More thn one hippopotmus is flling from the sky. Jk Prelutsky ouldn t write hippopotmuses. n you tell me why? Kristen: It s too hrd to sy. I gree. nd, it s lso dds too mny syllles to tht line. He used ply on words nd mde it hip-po-pot--mi, whih is fny wy to men more thn one when you're tlking out nimls. Otopuses re sometimes lled otopi, for exmple. How mny syllles does hip-po-pot--mi hve? lss: Five! So some hippopotmi would hve lss: Six ets! Exellent! Let s put the first prt of this poem k together. Red the lines with expression. Then students work with prtners to fill in the missing words nd drw lines to mrk syllles on their opies of the poem. Our hrt is displyed for ssistne with the first prt of the poem.the seond verse lso hs deleted words. Note tht only one of the four pirs of lines in it follows the rhyming word spelling pttern of the first verse.; for exmple, Trin nd rin do look nd sound like, ut nikels nd pikles only sound like. Following this independent work time, hold disussion of look-like nd sound-like rhyming word pirs s prtners shre their responses. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Seond Grde 29