Author: Scott O’Dell Genre: Historical Fiction

1. Big Question: How do people survive in the wilderness? Author: Scott O’Dell Genre: Historical Fiction

2. Small Group Timer

3. Review Games Story Sort Vocabulary Words: • Arcade Games • Study Stack • Spelling City: Vocabulary • Spelling City: Spelling Words

4. Spelling WordsLong Vowel Diagraphs: ai, ee, ea, oa, andow

5. coast feast speech wheat Spain paint arrow needle charcoal praise faint maintain crease groan breeze willow appeal bowling complain sneeze dungarees bungalow campaign speedometer referee

6. Big Question: How do people survive in the wilderness? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

7. Vocabulary Words More Words to Know Vocabulary Words • gnawed • headland • kelp • lair • ravine • shellfish • sinew • brackish • cove • deafening • flint • green • gutted • quartz

8. Monday

9. Today we will learn about: • Build Concepts • Theme and Setting • Visualize • Build Background • Vocabulary • Fluency: Model Pitch • Grammar: Introduce Independent & Dependent Clauses • Spelling: Long Vowel Digraphs • Survival

10. FluencyModel Pitch

11. Fluency: Model Pitch • Listen as I read “The Sign of the Beaver.” • As I read, notice how I lower my voice to indicate straight narration and raise it to indicate dialogue or an important moment. • Be ready to answer questions after I finish.

12. Fluency: Model Pitch • Describe the time and place for this story. • What lessons does Attean teach Matt?

13. Concept Vocabulary • flint – hard, gray or brown stone that makes a spark when struck against steel • green – not ripe; not fully grown • gutted – removed the intestines of • quartz – hard mineral made of silicon and oxygen found in many different kinds of rocks • (Next Slide)

14. flint

15. quartz

16. Concept Vocabulary (To add information to the graphic organizer, click on end show, type in your new information, and save your changes.)

17. Build Concept Vocabulary flint, green, gutted, quartz Survival

18. Theme & Setting,Visualize Turn to page 68 - 69.

19. Prior KnowledgeThink about things you know about the Pacific coast. Pacific Coast

20. Vocabulary Words

21. Vocabulary Words • gnawed– bitten at or worn away • headland – narrow ridge of high land jutting out into the water • kelp – large, tough, brown seaweeds

22. Vocabulary Words • lair– den or resting place of a wild animal • ravine – long, deep, narrow, valley eroded by running water • shellfish – water animal with a shell • sinew- tendon

23. More Words to Know • brackish – slightly salty • cove – small, sheltered bay; inlet on a shore • deafening – very loud; amazingly noisy • (Next Slide)

24. gnawed

25. headland

26. kelp

27. lair

28. ravine

29. shellfish

30. sinew

31. cove

32. Vocabulary Words

33. Grammar • Independent and Dependent Clauses

34. marge like to read adventurstorys • Marge likes to read adventure stories. • she readed a book set in spain • She read a book set in Spain.

35. Dependent & Independent Clauses • It would be my home until the white men returned in their ship. • This sentence begins with an independent clause (It would be my home) and ends with a dependent clause (until the white men returned in their ship).

36. Dependent & Independent Clauses • A related group of word with a subject and a predicate is called a clause. • A clause that makes sense by itself is a independent clause. • A clause that does not make sense by itself is a dependent clause.

37. Dependent & Independent Clauses • A complex sentence contains an independent and a dependentclause. • Native Americans lived on the island until they were attacked. • Independent: Native Americans lived on the island • Dependent: until they were attacked

38. Dependent & Independent Clauses • If the dependent clause comes first, set it off with a comma. Until they were attacked, Native Americans lived on the island. • If the independent clause is first, no comma is needed: Native Americans lived on the island until they were attacked.

39. Dependent & Independent ClausesIs each group of words a dependent or independent clause? • if you live on an island • dependent • the tides affect your life • independent • the water level rises • independent

40. Dependent & Independent ClausesIs each group of words a dependent or independent clause? • when the tide comes in • dependent • much of the beach disappears under water • independent • until the tide goes out • dependent

41. Dependent & Independent ClausesCombine the two clauses to make a sentence. • if you live on an island • the tides affect your life • If you live on an island, the tides affect your life. • the water level rises • when the tide comes in • The water level rises when the tide comes in.

42. Dependent & Independent ClausesCombine the two clauses to make a sentence. • much of the beach disappears under water • until the tide goes out. • Much of the beach disappears under water until the tide goes out.

43. Spelling WordsLong Vowel Diagraphs: ai, ee, ea, oa, andow

44. coast feast speech wheat Spain paint arrow needle charcoal praise faint maintain crease groan breeze willow appeal bowling complain sneeze dungarees bungalow campaign speedometer referee

45. Tuesday

46. Today we will learn about: • Dictionary/Glossary • Theme and Setting • Character and Plot • Vocabulary • Fluency: Choral Reading • Grammar: Introduce Independent & Dependent Clauses • Spelling: Long Vowel Digraphs • Social Studies: Map and Globe Skills • Channel Islands • Survival

47. Vocabulary Strategy: Dictionary/Glossary Turn to pages 70 - 71.

48. Island of the Blue DolphinsTurn to pages 72 - 79.

49. FluencyChoral Reading

50. Fluency: Choral Reading • Turn to page 75, first two paragraphs. • Notice the drop in pitch at periods and the rise in pitch at the question mark. • Now we will practice together as a class by doing three choral readings of these paragraphs.