The Best Guess
The Best Guess
The Best Guess
The Best Guess
The Best Guess
The Best Guess
The Best Guess
Informational Narrative (fiction), 592 words, Level M (Grade 2), Lexile 530L
The Best Guess tells how friends in a neighborhood work together to try to win a contest. They research and chart data to find the best guess for the ice cream man's question: “What will be the first one-hundred-degree day of the year?” Illustrations and graphs support the text.
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Story Words
bar graph, certain, column, data, degrees, guesses, scan, tally mark, temperature
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Reading Strategy
Use the reading strategy of self-monitoring to understand text
Comprehension
Sequence Events : Sequence events
Phonics
Vowel Diphthong : Vowel diphthong /ou/: ou and ow
Grammar and Mechanics
Quotation Marks : Identify and understand the use of quotation marks
Word Work
Contractions : Recognize and use contractions
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
