Lesson 2: The Storm

The words on the "Word Match" page are the vocabulary words for the first four chapters of the book. Encourage your child to read each word in context where it occurs. (Page numbers are provided below.) Next, ask her to guess what the word means. Explain to her that the sentence in which a word appears can offer clues as to what the word means.

Let your child cut out the words and put them in alphabetical order. If your child is not used to using a dictionary, explain to her that all the words in a dictionary are listed in alphabetical order. It might be helpful before beginning to allow her to number the vocabulary words in the order in which they will be found in the dictionary. She can then circle the first letter in each word. Help your child look up the definitions in the dictionary and match each word with its definition. Next, on a separate sheet of paper, she can glue each word next to its definition.