Frindle: Lesson 1

Meeting Challenges

review

The following activities are optional.

Correct the sentences:

1. Do you no how to use the dictionary.

2. We use Webster's School dictionary in are class.
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Reread the story, "Homework Help," on p. 19 of Reading Street. Stop after each paragraph and make notes about Anna's problem, her ideas for solving the problem, the climax of the story, and the way in which the problem is resolved.
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Think about the question posed in the beginning of the lesson: How do you meet the challenges of learning? Record two questions about people who have greatly influenced education. For example, who wrote the first dictionary? You will investigate these questions in the next lesson.

 



Lesson Guide
The review activities are optional.

Have your student correct the sentences if he needs practice identifying and revising erroneous grammar and punctuation.

Corrections
1. know; dictionary?
2. Dictionary; our
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If your student needs to review how to identify different parts of a story, have him complete the second activity listed, which directs him to the story, "Homework Help," on p. 19 in Reading Street.

The last activity listed is an extension. If most of the skills included in this lesson are not new to your student, or if your student would like to participate in a more challenging exercise, encourage him to engage in the extension activity. This is part one of a two-part extension.
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