LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 163
Discuss what they see and what is in the library. Ask questions to enable a discussion about
what is in the picture.
WKBK: Have the students turn to workbook page 138 and do exercises 1-2.
Pages 136-137
Pre-Reading
2. Let’s Read!
AI: Students identify
Before reading the text have the students look at the text and
different text types and use
ask:
this knowledge as needed.
• What kind of text is it? (an invitation)
• What do you expect to find in the invitation? (accept all logical answers)
• What kind of invitation do you think it is? For what? (have students guess)
While Reading
Go to www.eadventure.co.il/LFO to play this text.
Have the students read and ask:
• Who is the invitation to? (Albert Sparkov and friends)
AI: Students understand
• Who is inviting them? (Pine Lake Library)
the general meaning,
• What is the invitation for? (History Mystery Day: 1876-1976)
main ideas and the
sequence of events in a
• When is this day? (Thursday, August 5, at 10:00 in the
text, and use this
morning)
knowledge as needed.
• What will they find out if they come? (what is History
Mystery Day)
• Who sent the invitation? (Holly Cleary)
• What did Holly write to Albert at the bottom of the invitation? (she asks him to write
a short letter telling her how many people he is coming with)
HOTS: MAKE CONNECTIONS
• Why doesn’t Holly ask Albert to send an e-mail? (it’s 1976 and e-mail wasn’t in
general public use then)
Post Reading
3. Let’s Answer!
Have the students answer the questions in their notebooks.
Answers:
1. Holly Cleary
2. Albert Sparkov and friends
3. Pine Lake Library
4. Thursday, August 5, at 10:00 in the morning
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