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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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Second graders respond to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett by illustrating a slide for a class slide show and writing a sentence to go with the illustration. Weather terminology are used in the sentences.

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2nd
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English Language Arts
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4 days
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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Introduce Vocabulary: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett)

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs-Part I

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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

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Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs

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Introduce Vocabulary: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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