Transcript A Life Saving Cow - wels-literacy

•Predict:
Think about what
might happen
(guess)
Good Readers
• Good readers make some predictions before they
read
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Look at the front cover
Look at the back cover
Look at the pictures
Read the first few sentences
Ask yourself
– “What will
happen?”
• Good readers make some predictions when they are
reading
– Stop and think
• (just a little)
– Were my predictions correct?
– Do I need to change my predictions?
Ask yourself
– “What will
happen
next?”
1. Predict: Think
about what will
happen before
you read
5. Think about your
predictions. Are they
correct? Do you need
to change them?
2. Read some of the text
4. Read more of the text
3. Think about your
predictions. Are they
correct? Do you need
to change them?
Mary’s Farm
• What do you think this story will be about?
• What will happen in this story?
A Life-Saving Cow
Mary lived on a farm.
There was a river running through Mary’s farm.
One year, in October it rained all day for seven days in a
row.
Mary was worried about her cows because the river was
getting higher and higher and bigger and bigger.
As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she
slipped
and hit her
head on a fallen tree trunk.
The fall knocked her out for a moment or two.
When she woke up, Lizzie, one of her oldest and
favourite cows, was
licking her face.
The water was rising.
Mary got up and began
walking slowly with Lizzie.
The water was now waist high.
Mary’s pace got slower and slower.
Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm
around Lizzie’s neck and try to hang on.
About 20 minutes later, Lizzie pulled herself and
Mary out of the flood water and onto a bit of
high land, a small island now in the middle of
all the water.
Even though it was about lunchtime, the sky was
so dark and the rain and lightning so bad that it
took rescuers another two hours to find
Mary.
A helicopter came to help people caught in the
flood.
They raised Mary into the helicopter and took
her to hospital.
When the flood subsided two days later, Mary
immediately went back to the “island.”
You decide what happens next.
• Was Lizzie the cow waiting?
• Was Lizzie okay?
Summary – Just the main ideas.
Only the important things
- not all the things that happened.
Summaries are short.
A Life-Saving Cow - 1
Mary lived on a farm.
There was a river running through
Mary’s farm.
One year, in October it rained all day for
seven days in a row.
Mary was worried about her cows
because the river was
getting higher and higher and bigger
and bigger.
Mary was worried about her cows
because the river was
getting higher and higher.
As she tried to herd her cows to higher
ground, she slipped
and hit her
head on a fallen tree trunk.
Mary lived on a farm.
There was a flood.
She fell and hit her head.
A Life-Saving Cow - 2
The fall knocked her out for a
moment or two.
When she woke up, Lizzie, one of
her oldest and
favourite cows, was
licking her face.
The water was rising.
Mary got up and began
walking slowly with Lizzie.
The water was now waist high.
Mary’s pace got slower and slower.
Finally, all she could do was to
throw her arm
around Lizzie’s neck and try to hang
on.
Mary’s cow, Lizzie, woke her
up by licking her face.
The water was rising.
Lizzie helped Mary walk to an
island.
A Life-Saving Cow - 3
About 20 minutes later,
Lizzie pulled herself and
Nancy out of the flood
water and onto a bit of
high land, a small island
now in the middle of
all the water.
Even though it was about
lunchtime, the sky was
so dark and the rain and
lightning so bad that it
took rescuers another two
hours to find
Mary. A helicopter came to
help people caught in the
flood.
Rescuers came in helicopter.
A Life-Saving Cow - 4
They raised Mary into
the helicopter and took
her to hospital.
When the flood
subsided two days later,
Mary immediately went
back to the “island.”
• Was Lizzie the cow
waiting?
• Was Lizzie okay?
Two days later Mary
went back to look for
Lizzie.
Was Lizzie okay?
Mary lived on a farm.
There was a river running through Mary’s farm.
One year, in October it rained all day for seven days in a row.
Mary was worried about her cows because the river was
getting higher and higher and bigger and bigger.
Mary was worried about her cows because the river was
getting higher and higher.
As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she slipped
and hit her
head on a fallen tree trunk.
The fall knocked her out for a moment or two.
When she woke up, Lizzie, one of her oldest and
favourite cows, was
licking her face.
The water was rising.
Mary got up and began
walking slowly with Lizzie.
The water was now waist high.
Mary’s pace got slower and slower.
Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm
around Lizzie’s neck and try to hang on.
About 20 minutes later, Lizzie pulled herself and
Nancy out of the flood water and onto a bit of
high land, a small island now in the middle of
all the water.
Even though it was about lunchtime, the sky was
so dark and the rain and lightning so bad that it
took rescuers another two hours to find
Mary. A helicopter came to help people caught in the flood.
They raised Mary into the helicopter and took her to
hospital.
When the flood subsided two days later, Mary immediately
went back to the “island.”
•
Was Lizzie the cow waiting?
•
Was Lizzie okay?
Mary lived on a farm.
There
was
a flood.
Mary
lived on
a farm.
There
was
a flood.
She
fell
and hit her
She fell and hit her head. Mary’s
cow,
Lizzie, Mary’s
woke her up by
licking
head.
cow,
her face.
Lizzie,
woke
The
water was
rising. her up by
Lizzie
helpedher
Mary walk
to an
licking
face.
island. Rescuers came in helicopter.
Two
dayswater
later Mary
went rising.
back to
The
was
look for Lizzie.
Lizzie
helped Mary
Was
Lizzie okay?
walk to an island.
Rescuers came in
helicopter.
Two days later Mary
went back to look for
Lizzie.
Was Lizzie okay?
Summarise
1. Predict: Think
about what will
happen.
Finish
5. Read
2. Read
4. Think about your
predictions. Are they correct?
Do you need to change them?
3. Summarise – what
happened in the story?