Fifth Grade: Theme 1 Selection 3 Meeting Challenges

1. Fifth Grade: Theme 1 Selection 3 Meeting Challenges

2. Sound/Spellings Long Vowel Digraphs (Digraphs are two letters that make one sound) • ai /ā/ as in maintain • ee /ē/ as in sneeze • ea /ē/ as in appeal • oa /ō/ as in charcoal • ow /ō/ as in bungalow

4. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? coast paint feast arrow speech needle wheat charcoal Spain praise

5. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? faint willow maintain appeal crease bowling groan complain breeze sneeze

6. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? dungarees bungalow campaign speedometer referee

7. Teacher Read Aloud: The Sign of the Beaver Activate Prior Knowledge: Share what you know about surviving in the wild.

8. Purpose Setting: After hearing the title, predict what the selection will be about. Listen for clues to the setting. Attean, a Native American boy, and Matt are hungry and far from camp. Attean shows Matt how to make a fire and cook the fish they caught. Describe the time and place for this story. What lessons does Attean teach Matt?

9. Build Concept Vocabulary • He drew from his muskrat-skin pouch a piece of hard stone with bits of quartzembedded in it. • In fact he had done it many a time, but he had not realized that he could use a common stone as well as his flint. • By the time he had the two fish split and gutted and washed in the creek, Attean had a fire blazing. • He watched as Attean cut two short branches, bending them first to make sure they were green.

10. Concept Vocabulary Web quartz Tools Survival gutted Cooking green flint

11. Comprehension Skill: • Theme and Setting • The theme is the underlying meaning of a story. • The theme is often not stated. You can figure out a theme when you have finished reading from events and other evidence in the story. • The setting is where and when the story takes place. Writers use details, such as sights and sounds, to describe it.

12. Theme and Setting tastes sounds Setting sights feelings smells

13. Strategy: Visualize Active readers create pictures of the story in their minds as they read. The sights, smells, sounds, tastes, and feelings described by the author all help you visualize the setting, the characters, and the events.

14. Alone Theme: Surviving by Yourself wolves howling wagon wheels creaking potato soup horses trotting rustling of the grass family’s log cabin cows, barn unsure, nervous food lonely outdoors

15. Island of the Blue Dolphins Author: Scott O’Dell

16. Genre: Historical Fiction • Historical fiction is a combination of imagination and fact. • The characters are fictional. • The plot is placed in a factual historical setting.

17. Island of the Blue Dolphin takes place on the San Nicolas Island located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

20. San Nicolas Island

21. More Books Written by Scott O’Dell

22. bitten at or worn away gnawed Wild animals like it and soon would have gnawed the fence down. Synonyms: chewed nibbled wear

23. a narrow ridge of high land jutting out into the water headland If your island had a headland, it would provide a good high point from which to look out for rescue. Synonyms: bluff cliff peak

24. any of various large, tough, brown seaweeds kelp Between them I wove many strands of bull kelp, which shrinks as it dries and pulls very tight. Synonyms:

25. den or resting place of a wild animal lair The first thing I found, which I had forgotten, was that this place was near the wild dogs’ lair. Synonyms: cave den

26. a long, deep, narrow, valley eroded by running water ravine Synonym: pass gorge It was much easier to reach, since it came from the side of a hill and not from a ravine as the other one did.

27. a water animal with a shell shellfish I ate shellfish and perch which I cooked on a flat rock. Synonym: lobster crab oyster

28. tendon sinew I would have used seal sinew to bind the ribs together, for this is stronger than kelp, but wild animals like it. Synonym: muscle power

29. Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? gnawed headland kelp lair ravine shellfish sinew

30. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words! Draw! Draw! Draw!

31. Free Association • When I say a word, you write down any words you can think of that remind you of that word. • For example: • The word is school: • learning • Science • pencils • Reading • Math • teachers • P.E. • Education 1. gnawed 2. headland 3. kelp 4. lair 5. ravine 6. shellfish 7. sinew

32. Classifying • Place the following words in categories: • gnawed headland kelp • lair ravine shellfish • sinew • Decide the names of the categories. • Determine how many categories. • Determine which words go in which categories. • After classifying the words, write a paragraph explaining each of the categories and why certain words go in a particular category.

33. Can You Find the Context Clues? • The _________________ is a good location to build a hut because it blocks the wind. • My family enjoys ordering ______________________ at the wharf. • I heard the howling of wolves in their _______________ from my hut. • People use _____________ to make wallpaper. • The dock has been ________________ by the sea lions. • If you use ______________ for stabilizing the fence, it will last longer. • The steeply wooded ________ descends to a private beach. gnawed; headland; kelp; lair; ravine; shellfish; sinew

34. Synonym Search Match the vocabulary words on the left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some vocabulary words have more than one synonym. Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gnawed headland lair ravine shellfish sinew

35. Word Association Challenge • Which word goes with sightseeing ? Why? 2. Which word goes with splintered wood? Why? 3. Which word goes with erosion? Why? 4. Which word goes with iodine? Why? 5. Which word goes with body building? Why? 6. Which word goes with spending time together? Why? 7. Which word goes with vegetation ? Why? Word Bank gnawed; headland; kelp; lair; ravine; shellfish; sinew

36. Tell Me What You Know • Describe the details of the sights and sounds when standing on the headland of a beautiful island. • 2. Compare and contrast kelp and sinew. • 3. What are the causes and effects of a dock that has been gnawed by sea animals? • 4. If you were all alone on an island, how would you use the natural resources such as island and sea vegetation and shellfish to survive? • 5. Explain the dangers of trying to walk down a ravine.