28 Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide 1A | What’s the Weather Like?
Discussing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes
Comprehension Questions
If students have difficulty responding to questions, reread pertinent lines
of the read-aloud and/or refer to specific images. If students give one-
word answers and/or fail to use read-aloud or domain vocabulary in their
responses, acknowledge correct responses by expanding the students’
responses using richer and more complex language. Encourage students
to answer in complete sentences. Model answers using complete
sentences for students.- Literal Who is Annie? What is she learning about at school?
- Annie is an imaginary pen pal. She is learning about seasons and
weather at school.
Show image 1A-2: Kinds of weather
- Annie is an imaginary pen pal. She is learning about seasons and
- Literal [Have students come up to the picture one at a time and name
a type of weather.]
Show image 1A-8: Seasons - Literal In the United States, what is the cycle of the seasons in order,
starting with winter?
- The cycle of the seasons is winter, spring, summer, autumn/fall.
- Literal Which season is the coldest?
- Winter is the coldest season.
- Literal Which season is the hottest?
- Summer is the hottest season.
- Inferential Is the weather the same or different during the different
seasons of the year? How do you know?
- The weather is different during the different seasons because in winter
the weather is cold and sometimes snowy and in summer the weather is
mostly hot and sunny.
[Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]