2.4.2 Grow a Tomato! SUMMARY This informational text describes how to grow, care for, and harvest tomato plants. LESSON VOCABULARY bumpy harvest smooth vines fruit roots soil INTRODUCE THE BOOK FACT AND OPINION ASK QUESTIONS READ THE BOOK SET PURPOSE Guide the children in determining a purpose for reading. Based on your discussion of the title, elicit from children that this will probably be an instructional text with information on how to do something. Ask: Why would someone want to read this book? How do you think we will be able to use the information in this book? STRATEGY SUPPORT: ASK QUESTIONS After read- BUILD BACKGROUND Engage the children in a discussion of plants. Ask: Have any of you ever grown a plant? What was it? How did you care for it? What do plants need to grow? ing, encourage children to ask questions about the text. Remind them that asking questions can help them better understand what they have read. Write questions down that can be answered using the text. Give each child (or pair of children) one question and have them find the answers to their questions in the text. Share these with the others. Children should say the page number and also read the sentence or sentences where they found their answers. PREVIEW/TAKE A PICTURE WALK Invite the COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS INTRODUCE THE TITLE AND AUTHOR Discuss with children the title and the author of Grow a Tomato! Have the children describe the cover illustration and share what they think this book might be about. Ask: What do you think you might learn from this book? children to preview the book, looking at the pictures. Encourage them to discuss the illustrations and make predictions about the text. Draw attention to the call-outs on page 11 and discuss how this information can help them understand the text. Ask: Why do you think the author included these call-outs? What information do they contain? Invite English language learners to share the call-out words on page 11 in their nati