Tier-2 vocabulary launch: DELIGHTED and DISAPPOINTED through 'Hair Love'

Mirror-face exercise: show delighted; show disappointed.

• Model exaggerated faces
• Children mirror

Two new feeling-words today. DELIGHTED means very, very happy — like when you open a present and it's exactly what you wanted. DISAPPOINTED means let down — like when you wanted to go to the playground and it rained. Both are feelings writers use to describe characters in stories.

• Delighted is bigger than happy. It glows.

  model Show the page; she's beaming.

  prompt Read 'Hair Love' — the girl is DELIGHTED at the end when her dad styles her hair.
• Disappointed isn't angry — it's let-down.

  model When her dad isn't getting her hair right.

  prompt When in the story is she DISAPPOINTED?

• Show me a delighted face.
• Show me a disappointed face.
• Tell your partner one delighted moment you've had.

M-K-S-VOC-04-A Illustration

Two-panel anchor card. Left: 'DELIGHTED = very, very happy' with illustration of a child opening a wrapped gift, beaming with eyes wide. Right: 'DISAPPOINTED = let down' with illustration of a child looking at a rained-out picnic, shoulders slumped. Both panels feature diverse child characters.

M-K-S-VOC-04-B Photograph

Photo of the final spread of 'Hair Love' by Matthew A. Cherry / Vashti Harrison — the girl beaming as her dad finishes styling her hair. Sticky note labeled 'DELIGHTED' pointing at her face. Used as anchor for the discussion of how authors show feelings.

• Mirror-talk: 'I was delighted when ___.'

  scaffold Sentence frame; partner listens and responds.
• Mirror-talk: 'I was disappointed when ___.'

  scaffold Same.
• Sort emotion-face cards into DELIGHTED / DISAPPOINTED / OTHER piles.

  scaffold Mixed card pile of 12 faces.

• Use DELIGHTED in a sentence about yourself.
• Use DISAPPOINTED in a sentence.

• Chant: 'Delighted = very, very happy. Disappointed = let down.'

• At dinner, share one delighted moment and one disappointed moment from your day.