COSTUME PARTY Vocabulary • Use context clues to determine word meaning: What does the word ballerina mean in this book? Look for clues to the meaning of the word on pages 4 and 5. (the girl is a ballerina; she is dancing)

Find It! Level 1 Comprehension • Identify facts and details: The boy on page 2 is . . . (having a party) • Identify facts and details: What is the girl on pages 8–9 dressed up to be? LEVEL C/3 (a princess)

Look Closer! Level 2 Comprehension • Compare and contrast: How are the children on pages 7 and 13 alike and lion different? (they are both going to the party; both are dressed as animals;

ballerina M princess the child on page 7 is dressed as a lion, the child on page 13 as a penguin)

M M • Identify cause and effect: The children are all wearing costumes because they . . . (are going to the party, pages 4–16)

Costumes Prove It! Level 3 Comprehension • Identify main idea: This story is mostly about . . . Use a semantic web for help in answering this question. (Answer: costumes you could wear to a M M party; Clues/evidence: the story tells that children dress as a ballerina, lion, pirates M cowboy princess, cowboy, penguin, and pirates, pages 4–15) penguin • Draw conclusions: What can you tell about costume parties from this story? (Answer: everyone dresses to look like a person or an animal, and they have fun; Clues/evidence: the story tells that children dress as a ballerina, lion, princess, cowboy, penguin, and pirates, and on page 16 it says the party is fun, pages 4–16) • Make inferences: What is the boy doing on page 2? (Answer: writing invitations to his party; Clues/evidence: he has a pencil in his hand, and the words “You are invited” are on the paper)

Take It Apart! Level 4 Comprehension • Evaluate author’s purpose: The author probably wrote this book to . . . (show we can dress in costumes and pretend to be other things for fun) • Analyze text structure and organization: The author describes who or what a person is dressed up to be. Give an example from the book. (“He is a pirate,” page 14)

Emergent Set D ©2011 Benchmark Education Company, LLC. All rights reserved. This card may be photocopied for classroom use only. Based on the Comprehension Through Deductive Reasoning Model developed by Margaret Kilgo.