Mentor Sentence Focus Standard: L.1 (abstract nouns)
Reading Lesson Ideas:
R.1: Students can provide evidence to show the scarecrow enjoys his life.
R.2: Have students summarize the story and tell the theme of the book.
R.3: Students explain the scarecrow (thoughts, words, actions).
R.4, L.5: Students identify phrases and vivid verbs that add to the tone and visualization of the story (for example: “He has watched a spider work for hours making a web like lace.”).
R.7: Students explain how the illustrations conveyed the author’s
words to create mood and demonstrate setting.
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Scarecrow
List the evidence the author gives to show the scarecrow enjoys his life.
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List the evidence the author gives to show the scarecrow enjoys his life.
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He has peace, and a
love of silence and air.
He knows the wonder
going on around him
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of seeds growing to
plants.
He doesn’t care what
he is made of.
He enjoys the changing
of the seasons as a
He doesn’t mind
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Scarecrow
Summarize the story.
Beginning:
Middle:
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Summarize the story.
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Middle:
End:
A scarecrow is created with a borrowed hat, suit, hands, and
head. He hangs around the garden all day and enjoys a slow life.
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Read the vivid language from the story and draw what you visualize.
Vivid Language Visualization
Seeds are being planted and inside them there are ten-foot-tall sunflowers and mammoth pumpkins and beans that just go on forever.
He has watched a spider work for hours making a web like lace.
He has seen the sun tremble and the moon lie still.
His hat has housed mice and his arms have rested birds. A morning glory has held tight to his legs and a worm is living in his lapel.
The wind is brushing his borrowed head and the sun is warming his borrowed hands and clouds are floating across his button-borrowed eyes.
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Scarecrow
Write a story as though you are a scarecrow. What is life like?
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