Rocks In His Head

1. Rocks In His Head By: Carole Otis Hurst Genre: Biography Skill: Generalize Author’s Purpose: Inform Compiled by Susie Mumper 3rd grade HES 2012

3. Home • QOD • Million $ word • Build background • Vocabulary • Vocabulary Strategy • Review Phonics • Links • Review questions • Voc. Practice • Fix-its • Generalize • Fluency Phrases • Daily Task 12345 • Prefixes pre-, mid-, over-, out- • Pronouns • Spelling

4. Find the word or words with the same meaning as chores. • tasks • bores • resting • bag

5. Find the word or words with the same meaning as spare. • fair • need • extra • fireplace

6. Find the word or words with the same meaning as attic. • fair • television • basement • upstairs

7. Find the word or words with the same meaning as labled. • tabled • marked • carpet • blank

8. Find the word or words with the same meaning as customer. • seller • tools • buyer • pillow

9. Find the word or words with the same meaning as board. • wooden plank • excited • sword • toy

10. Find the word or words with the same meaning as stamps. • box • postage • sword • lamps Home

11. Spelling When the prefixes pre-, mid-, over-, and out- are added to words, the spelling of the base word does not change. Write each spellingword on the board. Have students identify the base word and prefix for each word. Write the base word next to the spelling word to show that the spelling does not change. Word sort Home

12. Possessive Pronouns

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15. Links • Virtual Geology Museum • Types of Rocks brain pop • Geology for kids Home

16. Review Phonics • We studied the r-controlled vowel /r/ spelled ir, er, ur, ear, and or. • Read this sentence to yourself. Raise your hand when you know which word has the r-controlled vowel /r/. Last Thursday we went to the movies. • Which letters stand for /r/ in Thursday?

17. Read the following words. worldlyurbanfernheard verb lurk thirsty furnish thirteen stirrup research undershirt Home

18. Vocabulary Strategy for Multiple-Meaning Words • Context Clues Sometimes when you are reading, you may see a word you know but whose meaning doesn’t make sense in the sentence. • The word may have more than one meaning. For example, bear means “a large furry animal,” but it also can mean “to carry.”

19. Try the meaning of the word that you know. Does it make sense in the sentence? • If it doesn’t make sense, perhaps it hasanother meaning. Read on and look atthe words around it. Can you figure outanother meaning? • Try the new meaning in the sentence. Does it make sense?

20. As you read “More Than a Hobby,” p. 63 look for words that might have more than one meaning. Remember to use nearby words to figure out a new meaning. Home

21. Daily Task 1 • With your partner read p. ___in your fluency folder. • Highlight tricky words • Take turns reading the passage 3 times each • With your partner do your tri-fold • Independently do RWB p. 23-24 • Independently read leveled readers and take AR tests. • Independently read books from your bag of books. Home

22. Daily Task 2 • With your partner answer the questions on p. ___in your fluency folder. • With your partner do your tri-fold • With your partner do page ___ in your SNB and page ____ in your GNB. • Independently read leveled readers and take AR tests. • Independently read books from your bag of books. Home

23. Daily Task 3 • With your partner do your tri-fold • With your partner do page ___ in you GNB and p. ___ in your SNB. • Independently read leveled readers and take AR tests. • Independently read books from your bag of books. Home

24. Daily Task 4 • With your partner do your tri-fold • Independently read leveled readers and take AR tests. • Independently read books from your bag of books. Home

25. Daily Task 5 • With your partner do your tri-fold • Independently read leveled readers and take AR tests. • Independently read books from your bag of books. Home

26. Phrases we had their dog he called me what will they do you and I who will make it Home

27. Building background (fill in t-chart then listen to CD) Home

28. Generalize • When you read, you can sometimesmake a general statement about whatyou have read. • A general statement tells how somethings are mostly alike or all alike. • Look for examples. Ask what they havein common.

29. Read “Looking at Rocks.” Make a graphic organizer like the one Below. Write examples that tell about different rocks. Then write a general statement about what rocks are made of. Home

30. Million $ word Mentor Amentor someone who advises and shows you how to do or be something. Home

31. Biography Rocks in His Head is a biography. It tells the story of a real person written by someone else.

32. Say It! stamps spare chores board attic labeled customer

33. More Words to Know janitor minerals quarries

34. stampspostage stickers

35. chorestasks

36. spareextra

37. atticupper floor

38. labeledmarked with a tag

39. customerperson who goes into a store to buy something

40. boardhead of a group

41. Did he put stamps on his letters?

42. We couldn’t find the spare tire.

43. The boy had to finish his chores before he went to play.

44. The family cleaned out the attic last spring.

45. Collin’s mom carefully labeled the boxes.

46. The customer needed helping finding an item in the store.

47. The board voted for the new rules.

48. Let’s review our words.

49. attic

50. stamps