James and the Giant Peach By Roald Dahl Comprehension Guide Grasshopper Ladybug Spider
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Day 9 Reading: Chapters 27-30 Strategy Focus: Asking Questions G  ood readers also ask questions as they read in order to help them comprehend what they are reading. As you read chapters 27-30, write down at least three discussion questions. These questions should allow discussions to take place within a group setting. “What was the name of the main character?” is not a discussion question.
1. AWV. Make sure students ask open-ended questions. Using why or what would you do would be good starters. 2.
Strategy Focus: Summarize Good readers are able to summarize what they have read. Describe in detail what happened with the “cloud men.” Write at least three sentences. The cloud men were standing in a group. They would reach out and grab handfuls of clouds and make them into big balls. Then they got shovels and started shoveling the piles off the clouds. They were making hailstones. The centipede yelled at them because he thought they were deaf. The cloud men heard him and turned and stared motionless. The centipede continued to yell and do gestures at them. The cloud men began throwing the hailstones at the peach. What happened to the centipede? What were grasshopper’s and ladybug’s ideas? The paint was drying on the centipede. He couldn’t move. The ladybug wanted to remove it with sandpaper. The grasshopper wanted to peel it off like a banana. What would be your idea to help the centipede? Please be descriptive in your plan. A  WV. Students must use description and write more than one
sentence. Day 10 Reading: Chapter 31-Part of Chapter 37 (pages 99-109) Describe how the cloud men made various forms of weather below. They made hail by grabbing clouds and forming them into balls. They painted the rainbow. They had huge drums to make thunder. They had frost and wind factories where blizzards and tornadoes were made. What did James and the creatures see in the morning? They saw land! 
What did the people of New York City think the peach was? They thought it was a bomb. They thought another country was attacking them. How did the peach fall from the sky? Where did it land? They wanted to land, so centipede chewed the strings so they would gradually land. A plane came and cut the strings. They landed on the tip of the Empire State Building. What were some of the names that the people thought the creatures were? Do you have any text-to-text connections? Some names were whangdoodle, prock, oinck, whompus, and sea serpent. Many students may connect this with the story The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Directory: userfiles userfiles -> Class Schedule Credit Class Schedule userfiles -> Recovery: What's a Coach Got To Do With It? By Bill Ryan userfiles -> Title: Associate Professor userfiles -> Chief Patron Shri Avinash Dikshit Commissioner Patron userfiles -> Iccf congress, seixal, portugal 5th to 12th October 2002 userfiles -> Unit 1: Exploration and Colonization userfiles -> Ap united States History Course Description userfiles -> Note: Please look through resources very carefully. This is a controversial issue so some sources may have bias. Check carefully for the expertise or background of the writer or contributor userfiles -> Ap united states history mr. Storrs – Room 306 2009-2010 text Download 1.73 Mb. Share with your friends:
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