Tomàs and the Library Lady

1. Tomàs and the Library Lady By: Raul Colón American Stories Theme 2, Selection 1, Day 1 Taught By: Mr. Williams

2. Sequence of Events • Using time order words when describing the sequence of events in a story makes it easier to understand.

3. Hannah’s Journey

4. Structural Analysis: Contractions

5. borrow

6. check out

7. eager

8. glaring

9. lap

10. storyteller

11. Key Library Vocabulary • borrow • To get temporary use of • check out • To withdraw an item, as a book from the library • eager • Excited, enthusiastic • glaring • Looking at angrily • lap • To lick or slurp • storyteller • A person who tells stories

12. Tomàs and the Library Lady Frame and Arrow Maps After reading each page, write down one to two of the most important events for your Frame and Arrow Map. At the end of the story put all of these events in chronological order taking time to create a detailed Frame and Arrow Map. Make sure that you are using time order words correctly in each of the frames on the map. When finished go back and reread this week’s selection in order to improve reading fluency.

13. Tomàs and the Library Lady By: Raul Colón American Stories Theme 2, Selection 1, Day 2 Taught By: Mr. Williams

14. borrow

15. check out

16. eager

17. glaring

18. lap

19. storyteller

20. Key Library Vocabulary • borrow • To get temporary use of • check out • To withdraw an item, as a book from the library • eager • Excited, enthusiastic • glaring • Looking at angrily • lap • To lick or slurp • storyteller • A person who tells stories

21. Tomàs and the Library Lady With your partner, discuss questions 1-7 on page 176 of your text. You may look back in your text if you need to. When you're finished begin thinking about the following questions. 1. Who is the main character in the story? 3. How are the characters lives changed by moving to the new place 4. Have you ever felt like the main character did in the story when they moved to a new place? 2. Where do the characters go in the story?

22. Comprehension Skill: Sequence of Events Using a Frame and Arrow Map, sequence what you think at the five most important events of the story.

23. Vocabulary: Antonyms fast asleep huge fierce as as as slow awake tiny gentle outgoing forget male floor as as as timid remember female celing

25. Tomàs and the Library Lady By: Raul Colón American Stories Theme 2, Selection 1, Day 3 Taught By: Mr. Williams

26. Key Library Vocabulary • borrow • To get temporary use of • check out • To withdraw an item, as a book from the library • eager • Excited, enthusiastic • glaring • Looking at angrily • lap • To lick or slurp • storyteller • A person who tells stories

27. Key Library Vocabulary

28. Vocabulary: Contractions

29. Vocabulary: Contractions • Talk to your partner and generate as many contractions as you can from the endings used below. Try to come up with at least three. • n’t: didn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t, don’t • ‘ve: should’ve, would’ve, could’ve, I’ve • ‘s: it’s, he’s, she’s, that’s, let’s, what’s • ‘re: you’re, they’re, we’re, • ‘ll: you’ll, she’ll, he’ll, we’ll, they’ll, I’ll

30. Extreme Partner Reading First Step: Read the story summary quietly to yourself. If you finish before time is up, read through it again. Second Step: Now that you have read through the story summary, go through it again using hand gestures as you read. If you finish before time is up, read through it again with gestures. Third Step: Turn to your partner and take turns reading the summary with lots of expression. Fourth Step: With your partner, take turns reading with passage with lots of expression and gestures. Last Step: Using your best expression, ask your partner three questions about what you have read. When you are asked, be sure to answer with intense expressions.

31. Tomàs and the Library Lady

32. Tomàs and the Library Lady By: Raul Colón American Stories Theme 2, Selection 1, Day 4 Taught By: Mr. Williams

33. Decoding: Contractions

34. Key Library Vocabulary • borrow • To get temporary use of • check out • To withdraw an item, as a book from the library • eager • Excited, enthusiastic • glaring • Looking at angrily • lap • To lick or slurp • storyteller • A person who tells stories

35. Key Library Vocabulary

38. No Talking, No Eating… • With your partner, read pages 178-181 from your text using the skills mentions in the yellow column on the left of page 178. When you are finished discuss these questions with your partner and write your answers in complete sentences on a piece of lined paper.. 1. Why were the books chained in the Hereford Cathedral Library? 4. Imagine that Thomas visited a library books were chained to the shelves. How would his life have been different? 3. How much older is the oldest handwritten book than the oldest mechanically printed book? 2. What problem did the librarians in Alexandria, Egypt Face? How did they solve it? 5. Compare and Contrast the libraries in both of the stories this week.

39. Tomàs and the Library Lady By: Raul Colón American Stories Theme 2, Selection 1, Day 5 Taught By: Mr. Williams

40. Weekly Skills Test • Make sure your name, date, and assignment are written clearly on the top left of the paper. • Turn your test paper to me and put your answer key in the reading basket. • Finish your Mountain Language. • Finish any other unfinished work.