Unfair Art Fair
Phonics / Fluency
Text Features
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
100
Name 1 character from Unfair Art Fair.
- Ayla
- Darren
- Mrs. Highberg
- Jeremy
100
Read this using (EAR):
The next morning, Ayla and Darren arrived early to help Mrs. Highberg re-hang the art they had stored in her room, but at the school entrance, they stopped dead.
The Garden Gator’s leaves were shriveled and brown. Where before it looked playful, now it looked scaly and menacing, like a real alligator. “Someone sabotaged it!” Ayla gasped.
You did it!
100
What do photographs/ pictures in a story tell readers?
helps the reader see what the text is explaining
100
What is figurative language?
words or phrases used to create an image or picture
100
What is an image?
a picture in your mind
200
Describe the emotions of the kids in the image
- Worried
- Shocked / Suprised
- Upset
200
Read this:
How do you like to go up in a swing?
Up in the air so blue?
What rhymes with swing?
ring, bling, thing, sling, fling, sing, wing, bring, cling
200
What is the purpose of bold font / words in a story?
to show the word is an important content word and is in the glossary
200
What is a simile?
a phrase that compares two unlike things using the words like or as
200
What is a creator?
a person who makes or creates something
300
Read this sentence:
But now that there was a mystery about things that had gone missing, she felt her senses tingle.
- How does Ayla feel about mysteries and how do you know?
Ayla seems to love a mystery.
She might be excited or anxious to solve it; the text says “she felt her senses tingle” now that things had gone missing.
300
Listen for two words that rhyme in the following stanzas?:
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside –
Wall
all
300
How does diagrams help us as readers?
helps the reader see the words better and understand them
supports facts in the text
300
What figurative language function is this? How do you know?
Love is a rose
Metaphor
300
What does eventually mean?
at some later point in time
400
Why did Darren hide the artwork? (Use examples from the story as evidence)
He was jealous of Jeremy’s project, and Darren wanted to win the contest.
400
Complete the sentences:
One, two Buckle my ____.
Three, four Close the ____.
Shoe
Door
400
What is the purpose of a glossary?
to give definitions of content words in a specific text
400
What is the difference between literal and nonliteral?
Literal- the strict or primary meaning of the word
Nonliteral- words or phrases not used in their strict or most basic sense
400
What do stores do with their newest products to make people want to buy them?
Display
500
After learning that Darren was the one who had stolen the art, what clues earlier in the story suggested he was guilty?
- His piece of art was one of the few that was not missing.
- Darren also knew a detail that only Ayla should have known. He knew that Shiree’s necklace had not been stolen.
- Darren was the one who discovered the missing artwork. This was suspicious because the art was hidden in an unfamiliar hallway.
500
Read this with EAR:
A few minutes later, while arranging some pieces of pottery, Ayla heard Darren shout. She found him and Mrs. Highberg in an unfamiliar hallway near the furnace room, surrounded by an unexpected art gallery.
“Darren, you found the missing artwork!” Mrs. Highberg cheered, but Ayla looked at Darren and kept quiet.
You did it!
500
What is the purpose of a sidebar?
How does it help readers?
P: to provide extra information about the main body of text.
R: helps the reader understand details about the main body of text
500
What are these things all together called?
Figurative Language
500
What do people use to prove they are right?
evidence