Tier-2 Vocabulary Launch — FROWNED, TRUDGED, GASPED

Charades: teacher mimes FROWNING, TRUDGING (slow exhausted walk), and GASPING (sudden inhale, hand on chest). Class names each.

• Hold trudge especially long (5 seconds slow steps)
• Affirm gasp is a SUDDEN intake of breath

Three more Tier-2 narrative verbs. FROWNED — pulled the eyebrows down and the mouth corners down, a face of worry, disapproval, or thinking-hard ('Mom frowned when she saw the broken vase'). TRUDGED — walked slowly with heavy steps, often tired or in deep snow or up a hill ('I trudged home through six inches of slush'). GASPED — sucked in air suddenly because of surprise or fear ('She gasped when the puppy jumped into her lap'). Key word for today: CONTEXT. The sentence around a Tier-2 word should TELL the reader what it means.

• Notice: the math problem is hard. Dad's face shows that. The context tells you frowning means 'thinking-hard / not-happy'.

  model Dad frowned at the math problem and tapped his pencil on the page.

  prompt FROWNED — show the context
• Same yard. Opposite walking-words. Scampered = light + quick. Trudged = heavy + slow.

  model The puppy SCAMPERED across the yard. The tired man TRUDGED across the yard.

  prompt TRUDGED vs. SCAMPERED
• Gasp = sudden, surprise. The box + sudden + bear gives the context.

  model I gasped when I opened the box and a giant teddy bear popped out.

  prompt GASPED — show the context

• Would you GASP if you were sleeping? (No — you're calm. Gasps are sudden.)
• Could you TRUDGE on a fresh spring morning to the swings? (Probably not — trudging is tired-heavy, not playful.)

M-2-F-VOC-07-A Photograph

Triptych photograph: panel 1 — adult frowning at a paper, eyebrows pulled together, hand on chin (frowned); panel 2 — figure trudging through deep snow in heavy boots, head down, shoulders hunched (trudged); panel 3 — child mid-gasp opening a wrapped gift, hand to mouth, eyes wide (gasped). Print-resolution, naturalistic lighting, multicultural cast.

• Three-encounter chart for FROWNED, TRUDGED, GASPED (definition, sentence, feeling-face).

  scaffold Three-encounter sheet from lesson 3 re-used
• Near-opposite drill: teacher reads 5 sentences, child decides if TRUDGE or SCAMPER fits.

M-2-F-VOC-07-B Diagram

Two-character split illustration of the same yard. Left side: an old man with a cane TRUDGES across the grass (slow motion lines, downward arrows); right side: a puppy SCAMPERS across the same grass (quick motion lines, upward arrows). Labels TRUDGED (slow, heavy, tired) and SCAMPERED (light, quick, playful). Print-ready, primary colors, dyslexic-friendly font.

• Write a sentence using GASPED where the reader can tell WHY you gasped from the rest of the sentence.

• Whisper your favorite of today's three words to your neighbor.
• Tomorrow: a writer's planning tool called the Single Paragraph Outline.

• At home, watch for someone FROWNING or GASPING. Write one sentence about it. Bring tomorrow.