Ronald Morgan Goes To Bat   First Reading

By Patricia Reilly Giff 

Use OWL strategy: Observe; Wonder; Link to Life 

Ronald Morgan Goes To Bat    Second Reading

Before Reading Learning about character mapping and how a character is developed in a story.  

As the children work through this story, encourage the children to use words and picture clues to identify character’s feelings. Also encourage the children to use inferences to figure out the character’s traits and feelings. Discuss how we find answers in a book. Invite the children to think about a special person they know. What would they tell the class about this person? What makes the person special? What words would they use to describe him or her? After the children share their ideas, explain that the qualities they have just described told the class a lot about the person. 

We learned this from looking at the pictures.

We learned this from reading the words.

We learned this from looking at the pictures and reading the words.

We learned this from what we know in our brain. 

Find the places in the text that support these statements:

1. Ronald couldn’t hold a bat.
2. He smiled a lot.
3. He had spirit.
4. Ronald ran the wrong way.

During reading

Today while you are reading find out about Ronald Morgan. Find places in the text that support these three statements:

1. Ronald Morgan is a good sport.
2. Ronald Morgan is not a good player.
3. Ronald Morgan is spirited.

Some teachers give the students three sticky notes to find places in the book that support these statements. Some teachers give the students a piece of paper with these statements listed so they can record answers on them. Some teachers prefer to give the students bookmarks so the students can indicate where in the text the answer is found.  

After reading

Read the statement. Have one student answer. Have another student read the place in the text that supports the answer.