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“Cook-A-Doodle Doo!” Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel Story Overview: In class this week, I’m reading Cook-a-Doodle-Doo, a story about a rooster who is the great-grandson of the Little Red Hen. Unlike the folk tale about the Little Red Hen, Rooster has animals that want to help him bake a cake. It’s fun to keep seeing how the stories are alike and different. Many pages in the story are like a recipe book. They teach how to bake. It’s fun to compare the real recipe with what the animals do. Genre: Humorous Fiction is a made-up story written to make the reader laugh. Vocabulary: 1. magnificent – something very beautiful or wonderful 2. masterpiece – a great work or very good example of something 3. ingredient – any one of the parts of a mixture 4. recipes – lists of ingredients 5. tasty – when something has good flavor Strategy: make inferences and analyze To make inferences, good readers use what they know, as well as clues in the story, to figure out what is missing. When readers make inferences, they can better understand the characters and events. Skill: compare and contrast To compare ideas, characters, or events, a reader tells how they are alike. To contrast ideas, characters, or events, a reader tells how they are different. Grammar: Verbs be, do, and have Spelling List: /Ô/ - The letters aw as in paw, au as in fault, and a as in tall stand for the /Ô/ sound. yawn hauls drawing taught hawks caused salt squawk paused lawn bought crawled halls bawls coughing Review words: joyful, coins, spoiled Challenge words: walrus, autumn “Seven Spools of Thread” Angela Shelf Medearis Story Overview: In Seven Spools of Thread, a father who loves his seven sons is disappointed. The brothers argue all the time. When the father dies, they find out they will not inherit their father’s money unless they turn seven spools of thread into gold. I can use two clues. The father loved them, and he wanted them to stop arguing. These clues help me draw a conclusion. The father’s strange instruction will bring peace to his children. Genre: fable A fable is a short story that teaches a moral. Vocabulary: 6. beamed – shined brightly 7. argued – disagree loudly with someone 8. possessions – things people own are called 9. fabric – cloth that is used for making clothes 10.purchased – something you get by paying money 11.quarreling – arguing Strategy: make inferences and analyze To make inferences, good readers use what they know and clues in the story to figure out what is missing. Skill: draw conclusions Readers often use two or more story details and their own experience to explain characters’ actions or events so they can come to a new understanding of the story. When readers do this, they draw conclusions. Grammar: linking verbs A linking verb does not show action. It connects the subject or a noun or an adjective in the predicate. It tells what the subject to a noun or an adjective in the predicate. It tells what the subject is or is like. Example: The girl is my friend. The day is sunny. Spelling List: words with /ou/ found round couch bow ground crowd proud owl bounce town plow clouds scout louder shout Review words: drawing, lawn, hauls Challenge words: snowplow, outline “Washington Weed Whackers” Time For Kids Story Overview: “Washington Weed Whackers” is about a harmful plant and a group of kids at an elementary school. The plant is killing other plants and animals on the northwest coast of Washington. The plant is good for other plants and animals in the Northeast. The article tells me how the effects of the plants are different in the two environments. Genre: Nonfiction Article Nonfiction Articles give information about real people, places, or things Vocabulary: 12.native – something/someone that grows, lives, or was born in a place 13.shouldn’t – should not 14.research – careful study of a particular subject 15.sprout – if a seed begins to sprout, it grows 16.clumps – groups or clusters of something Strategy: monitor comprehension Good readers monitor comprehension as they read. This means they regularly stop to check that they understand what they have read. They also stop when they do not understand something. If they are confused, they can reread, read ahead, paraphrase, visualize, summarize, adjust their reading rate, or seek help to understand what they are reading. Skill: compare and contrast Authors use the compare-and-contrast text structure to show how two things are alike and different. Compare – use signal words like, just as, similar, both, also, and too. Contrast – use signal words different, but, and on the other hand. Grammar: main and helping verbs Main verb – tells what the subject is or does. Helping verb – helps the main verb show action. Helping verbs must agree with the subject Spelling List: words with soft c and g cell changes space city age gentle giant price gyms Review words: crowd, clouds, found Challenge words: giraffe, celebrate gems pages nice cents place message “Here’s My Dollar” By Gary Soto Story Overview: Angel Arellano is my age and has been in the newspapers and on TV. Here’s My Dollar tells how Angel learned that the zoo in Fresno was running out of money. Angel wrote to newspapers, talked at different schools, and appeared on talk shows. She asked everyone to donate a dollar to save the zoo and the animals in it. I think the author wants to tell about Angel, but he also wants to show how one person can make a difference. Genre: Nonfiction article give information about real people, places, or things. Vocabulary: 17.tour – short trip to a place of interest with a guide 18.volunteers – people who do a job willingly without getting paid 19.community – a group of people 20.thrilled – to be excited or happy 21.slogan – an easy-to-remember phrase that is used in advertisements or by special groups or organizations 22.grownups – adults 23.deserve – something you have a right to 24.interviewed – a person who is interviewed gives answers to questions that someone else asks. Strategy: monitor comprehension Good readers monitor comprehension as they read. This means that they stop to check that they understand what they have read. They also stop when they do not understand something. Skill: Author’s purpose Author’s purpose is the reason an author writes something. Authors write to entertain, to inform, or to persuade. Grammar: irregular verbs Irregular verbs have a special spelling for the past tense. Spelling List: Homophones sale road you're there beet its it's peace rode Review words: city, gems, space Challenge words: seen, scene sail they're your rowed beat piece “My Very Own Room” Amada Irma Perez Story Overview: In My Very Own Room, a young girl is sharing a room with five brothers. What she wants more than anything is to have her own room. Because of the title, I think the girl will get her room in the end. I keep making predictions as I read. They are good guesses about what will happen next, and they’re based on clues the author has given. Making predictions is fun—it’s like solving little mysteries. The predictions also keep me involved in the story. Genre: Realistic Fiction is an invented story that could have happened in real life. Vocabulary: 25.separate – to keep things apart 26.determination – to have a firm purpose 27.storage – things that people don’t need every day are put in storage 28.crate – a box made of wood 29.exact – something correct or precise 30.ruined – something you can no longer use 31.luckiest – the luckiest person has more luck than anyone else. Strategy: monitor comprehension Good readers monitor comprehension as they read. This means that they stop to check that they understand what they have read. They also stop when they do not understand something. Skill: make predictions To use story clues, including the title and illustrations, and your won knowledge to tell what you think will happen in a story. Grammar: contractions with not A contraction is a shortened form of two words. An apostrophe takes the place of one or more letters. Spelling List: Plurals years foxes bunches alleys trays flies cities cherries ashes Review words: sale, rode, you’re Challenge words: heroes, libraries twins lunches ponies inches states daisies