A Sample Lesson from The Tan Student Book

Little House in the Big Woods

Lesson 5

For breakfast there were pancakes, and Ma made a pancake man for each one of the children. Ma called each one in turn to bring her plate, and each could stand by the stove and watch, while with the spoonful of batter Ma put on the arms and the legs and the head. It was exciting to watch her turn the whole little man over, quickly and carefully, on a hot griddle. When it was done, she put it smoking hot on the plate.

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Used by permission, Harper and Row.

1. a. Listen as your teacher reads the literature passage. Write the passage from dictation. Compare your copy with the model, correcting the spelling and punctuation.











b. Locate the word with the suffix -ful. The suffix -ful means full of. This suffix usually changes a word into an adjective. Which adjective question does spoonful answer in the literature passage? How does the suffix -ful change the meaning of the root word spoon? Add -ful to your suffix list. Also fill in the definition, part of speech, and word examples.

 


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