Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 5B | The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing 91
- Work with your partner to ask and answer questions about things
using a and the. [You may wish to provide students with classroom
objects to prompt questioning, such as pencils, crayons, erasers, etc.]
Vocabulary Instructional Activity
Word Work: Pretend
- In the read-aloud today you heard, “If you pretend to be what you are
not, you might get caught.” - Say the word pretend with me three times.
- To pretend is to make believe, or to act like you are something that
you are not. - Sometimes when I am lying down, I pretend that I am sleeping.
- Do you like to play pretend sometimes? Tell your partner about a
time that you have pretended to be or to do something. Use the
word pretend when you tell about it. [Ask two or three students. If
necessary, guide and/or rephrase students’ responses: “I like to
pretend I am .”] - What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
Use an Acting activity for follow-up. [You may wish to write the options
on pieces of paper, adding more options that your class may enjoy acting
out, and put them in a bag for students to pull from.]
Directions: One of you will choose a piece of paper from the bag. I will
whisper what is written on the paper to the student who pulled it out.
That student will pretend to be what is written on the paper while the
class tries to guess what s/he is pretending to be or pretending to do.
Pretend to:- eat a bowl of cereal
- tie a shoe
- build a house
- be a fish
- be a puppy
- be a teacher
- be a bus driver
- throw and then catch a ball