<p> CHALLENGING WORDS</p><p> animal ashamed barrette curtains detective favorites polish potato remember second</p><p>SUMMARY</p><p>The little girl in the story can’t find her bear. She tries to get her family to help but they are all too busy. The little girl tries to be a good detective to figure out where her bear might be.</p><p>--- Conversation Questions--- </p><p>(1) Tell what this story is about. (Answer) A little girl who lost her bear and spends the day trying to find it. (Follow Up) Have you ever lost something before?</p><p>(2) If you were the little girl how would you feel losing your favorite stuffed animal? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Do you have a favorite stuffed animal?</p><p>(3) If you were the mother or father would you have helped the little girl find her bear? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Has your mom or dad helped you find something lost before?</p><p>(4) Imagine you were the big sister, how would you have helped the little girl find her bear? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Do you have sisters or brothers that help you find things?</p><p>(5) What is a detective? (Answer) Someone that solves a mystery. (Follow Up) Have you ever been a detective?</p><p>(6) Where were some places the little girl looked for her bear? (Answer) She looked under the bed, in the bookcase, in the living room. (Follow Up) Where would you have looked if you were her?</p><p>(7) How did the sister say should find the bear? (Answer) Throw another stuffed animal and she will find it. (Follow Up) Do you think that’s a very good way to find things?</p><p>(8) What did she find instead of the bear? (Answer) She found her barrette, her kitten, magic markers, and her purse. (Follow Up) Was she close to finding the bear?</p><p>(9) Where did she find the lost bear? (Answer) In her bed. (Follow Up) Have you ever lost something that ended up being somewhere you should have found it?</p><p>(10) How do you think the girl felt when she finally found her bear? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) How would you feel? Activities</p><p>1. Draw your favorite stuffed animal. Describe it in your opus.</p><p>2. Tell about a time you lost something you loved. How did you get it back?</p><p>3. Make a list of the places the girl looked for it her bear. </p><p>4. Make a Missing poster for the little girl’s bear. Use descriptive words so anyone reading the poster would recognize the bear if they saw it. </p><p>Introduction</p><p>1. Have a stuffed bear on the desk. Ask the students if they have an animal they really love. Say, “Today we are going to read a book about a girl who loses her favorite bear.”</p><p>2. When the students come in pretend you have lost something. Look around and have them look also. Say, “Today we are going to read a story about a girl who loses something.”</p><p>3. Have pictures of toys on the desk. When the students come in have them tell about their favorite toy. What would they do it they lost it? Say, “Today we are going to read about a girl who loses her bear.”</p><p>Book Title: I Lost My Bear Author: Jules Feiffer Illustrator: Jules Feiffer ISBN: 0-439-13321-1 # of Text Pages: 35 AR: 2.1 LEX: AD320 Building Oral Vocabulary 3 detective 8 remember 16 favorite Prediction Questions 14 Is her bear gone forever? 22 Will she find the bear this way? 28 What will she find? </p><p>This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.</p>