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Family Times. Daily Questions. Prior Knowledge. Cause and Effect. Vocabulary. Multiple Meaning Words. Predictions. Guided Comprehension. Sequence. Paraphrase. Independent Readers. The Immigrant Experience. Additional Resources. Language Skills. Study Skills:
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Family Times Daily Questions Prior Knowledge Cause and Effect Vocabulary Multiple Meaning Words Predictions Guided Comprehension Sequence Paraphrase Independent Readers The Immigrant Experience Additional Resources Language Skills
Study Skills: Genre: Expository Nonfiction Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Question of the Week: What challenges do immigrants encounter? Daily Questions: In what ways is America different from Romania? How are Marcus’s expectations of America different from what he finds? Despite the challenges they face, why do you thin immigrants continue to come to America?
Language Skills Practice Book Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Spelling Spelling Strategy Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Daily Fix It Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Transparency: Common and Proper Nouns Writing Workshop Test –Taking Tips Reading Writing ConnectionWriting Prompt Writer’s CraftEditing and Revising
Day 1 Daily Fix It Our adress is 610 East River drive. Our address is 610 East River Drive. The driver doe’snt know how to get their. The driver doesn’t know how to get there. Language Skills
Language Skills Day 2 Daily Fix It Ask grandpa Otie about our familys history. Ask Grandpa Otie about our family’s history. His parents came hear from germany. His parents came here from Germany.
Day 3 Daily Fix It do your family have old photographs of relatives. Does your family have old photographs of relatives? Look at this picture of grandma Lila. Look at this picture of Grandma Lila. Language Skills
Day 4 Daily Fix It Whod guess that tiny baby in lace would become the mother of ten chilren. Who’d guess that tiny baby in lace would become the mother of ten children? A hundred years ago, familes was much larger. A hundred years ago, families were much larger. Language Skills
Day 5 Daily Fix It Many imigrants came from europe. Many immigrants came from Europe. They weren’t afraid to work or try knew things? They weren’t afraid to work or try new things. Language Skills
Language Skills Spelling Strategy Meaning Helpers Even short words can be hard to spell until you discover where they come from. Example: doesn’t You don’t hear the e in doesn’t, but because you know doesn’t stands for does not, you remember to write it. Does not is a meaning clue for doesn’t
Language Skills Writing Prompt Tell about a time you got something you treasured. What effect did it have on you? Write a narrative to a friend telling how you made this treasure your own and how you felt. Remember to indent each new paragraph.
Test Taking Tips Read the prompt carefully. Find key words. Consider the purpose and audience. How will they affect your writing? Develop a plan. Think of what you want to say before writing. Fill out a simple graphic organizer. For example, for a story, think of a beginning, middle, and end. For a comparison/contrast essay, fill out a T-chart or a Venn Diagram. Support your ideas. Use facts, examples, and details to strengthen your response. Avoid making general statements that are unsupported. Check your writing. If this is a timed test, you may not have time to recopy your work. However, you can neatly add, delete, or change words and make corrections is spelling punctuation, or grammar. Make sure your handwriting is legible. It pays to read your work again before handing it in. Language Skills
Language Skills • Editing/Revising Checklist • Do words create pictures that show rather than tell? • Are precise, vivid details used to create word pictures? • Have I capitalized all proper nouns correctly? • Are apostrophes used correctly in contractions?
Activate Prior Knowledge • Brainstorm about immigration • In two or three minutes write down words and phrases you associate with immigration. • Discuss responses. Think about the challenges immigrants encounter when arriving in a new country.
Cause and Effect • The cause is what made something happen. The effect is what happened as the result of a cause. • Sometimes an author will use clue words such as so and because to show a cause-effect relationship, but not always. • An effect may have more than one cause, and a cause may have more than one effect. Effect Cause Effect Cause Cause Effect
Summarize In a summary, you state main ideas and leave out unimportant details. Summarizing helps you make sure you understand and remember what you read. Summarizing is especially helpful when you read about a cause with several effects or an effect with several causes.
Write Activity: Read “Coming to the United States.” Make a graphic organizer to show the causes of immigration. Use information from your graphic organizer to help you write a brief summary about why many people have immigrated to the United States.
Vocabulary List Advice Advised Circumstances Elbow Hustled Immigrants Luxury Newcomer Peddler • INTRODUCE VOCABULARY • Read lesson vocabulary. • Locate each word in the glossary, noting the pronunciation and meaning. • Answer the following questions: • What might a peddler sell? • If you elbow your way to the head of the crowd, what are you doing? • What is a luxury in your home? Use the vocabulary words in sentences. At the end of the week, review your sentences and improve upon them using what they have learned.
Advice An opinion about what should be done
Advised Gave advice to; offered an opinion
Circumstances Conditions that accompany an act or event
Elbow To push with the elbow; make your way by pushing.
Hustled Hurried along
Immigrants People who come into a country or region to live.
Luxury Something pleasant but not necessary
Newcomer A person who has just come or who came not long ago.
Peddler A person who travels about selling thins carried in a pack or in a truck, wagon, or cart.
More Words to Know Crannies: Small, narrow openings; cracks; crevices Greenhorn: A person without training or experience Pushcarts: Light carts pushed by hand
Practice Lesson Vocabulary Does hustled mean pushed around? Are the Segals immigrants? Were the people in Marcus’s village used to luxury? True/False When you want to know someone’s opinion about something, you ask for his or her advice. A newcomer is someone who is always late. Hustled means pushed away.
Vocabulary Strategy (p. 114) Multiple Meaning Words (Context Clues) Some words have more than one meaning. You can find clues in nearby words to decide which meaning the author is using. Think about different meanings the word can have. Reread the sentence where the word appears. Which meaning gits in the sentence? If you can’t tell, then look for more clues in nearby sentences. Put the clues together and decide which meaning works best. As you read “ A New Job in America,” use the context and what you know about the vocabulary words to decide their meanings. For example, does hustled mean “hurried along” or “sold in a hurried way”?
Genre: Expository Nonfiction Expository nonfiction explains a person, a thing, or an idea. Notice how the author explains what life was like for a young man coming to the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Examples: