Communication Arts

1

Bubba the Cowboy Prince

• Communication Arts
• 3rd Grade

2
Teacher Page

• Content Communication Arts
• Grade Level 3rd Grade
• Creator Marcy Simon
• Curriculum Objective Making Predictions
• MAP Standard
• Reading Fiction/Poetry/Drama
• Speaking/Writing Standard English
• Item Benchmark
• Explain a characters actions
• Make and explain a prediction

3
Teacher Page

• Materials needed
• Bubba the Cowboy Prince by Helen Ketteman
• Read the story as you go through this lesson.
  Students will be making predictions about the
  story as it is read. There are specific spots
  where the reader stops and the students need to
  make predictions about the story or have a task
  to complete.

4
Teacher Page

• If you do not have the book, click on the link
  below for a readers theatre version of the story
  on-line. Stop reading after the family leaves
  for the Ball and Bubba is left at the ranch
  alone.
• http//ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/funlearn/rt/bubbatheco
  wboy.html
• Paper and pencil for each student

5

• Look at the cover of the book,
• Bubba the Cowboy Prince.

6
What do you think?
Make a prediction about the story. Write your
prediction on a piece of paper. Who do you think
is the main character of the story? Why do you
think this? Where do you think the story takes
place? Why do you think this?
7
Begin reading the story.

• Stop the story after the family leaves for the
  Ball and Bubba is left at the ranch alone.

8
Make a Prediction

• Does this story remind you of
• another story you have read?
• Which one? Do you think Bubba
• will go to the ball? If so, how will
• he get there, what will he wear?
• Will Mz. Lurleen dance with him?

9
Continue Reading the Story

• Continue reading the story until you get to the
  part where Bubbas magic wears off and he takes
  off running out of the Ball.
• What do you think will happen next? How will the
  story end? Will Mz. Lurleen and Bubba be
  together or will one of the wicked stepbrothers
  end up with Mz. Lurleen?

10

• Stop reading the story when you get to the part
  where Mz. Lurleen yells,
• Wait! she yelled, chasing after him.
• In complete sentences write what happens next in
  the story and how does the story end. Why do you
  think the story ends this way? What do you know
  about these characters that makes you think this
  way? What information did you use from the
  beginning of the story to help you write your
  ending? Be specific and use examples from the
  story.

11
Share Your Responses With The Class

• Each person in the class should share their
  ending with the class.
• Was there anything in common among the classs
  written endings?
• Read the ending from the book.
• How did the classs endings compare with the
  books ending? How were the classs endings
  similar to the books ending? How were the
  classs endings different from the books ending?