Grade 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1

1. Grade 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1 • Friendship • Gloria Who Might be My Best Friend • By Nancy Moralez

2. Objectives: • You will: • recognize base words and inflectional endings. • Review short vowel sounds. • Spelling sound long /i/ i_e, _y, igh. • Develop fluency reading words and sentences.

3. Word Knowledge Day One • kite five mine time high might right • tight fly cry why • What do these words have in common? • The /i/ sound and spelling i_e, igh, and _y

4. like liked liking try tried trying • happen happened happening • visit visited visiting • What do these words have in common? • Ending added to the base words. • What is the base word? • like, happen, visit

5. grass rags back black that • What do these words have in common? • The sound of /a/ • What is the /k/ sound spelled with a /ck/? • Because of the short vowel sound.

6. I might try to fly a kite. • Why do you try not to cry? • I don’t like to fight. • Find the long /i/ spelled with _y. • try, fly, why • Find the sound spelled with igh. • might • Find the sound spelled with i_e • kite • What is the word I? • Pronoun

7. Objectives: • You will: • recognize base words and inflectional endings with the /i/ sound and –ed and -ing. • Use comprehension strategies such as making connections, predicting, and summarizing to construct meaning from story. • discuss personal reaction to the story • understand the selection vocabulary before reading using structural cues..

8. Discussion Strategy Use • How did you make connections? • Use prior knowledge and what you know or have experienced. • Where did you pause in the reading to summarize? • How did you make, confirm, and revise predictions as you read? • What predictions did you make?

9. Vocabulary • Tease • Lonely • Seriously • Collection • Stiff • Probably

10. tease • If you have a girl for a friend, people find out andtease you. • Sometimes my brother and sister tease me when I am trying to work. • Look the word up in the dictionary. • Page 774

11. Tease • To make fun of someone, to annoy continuously • Part of Speech: Verb • Sentence Page 14 • Antonym :comfort, ease • Synonym: annoy, harass

12. lonely • I was walking down the street feeling lonely. • I thought the new student looked lonely at the lunch table, so I sat down across from her to talk. • Look the word up in the dictionary. • Page 435

13. Lonely • Feeling sad or being alone • Part of Speech: Adjective • Sentence Page 14 • Synonym: forlorn, lonesome • Antonym: accompanied

14. Seriously • Grandmother seriously thought about my question before she answered it because she wanted to be sure she gave me the right answer. • But she just looked at me very seriously and said, “It takes practice,” and then I liked her. • Look it up in the dictionary. • Page 678

15. Seriously • Thoughtfully, Sincerely • Part of Speech: Adverb • Sentence Page 16 • Synonym: actively, earnestly, for real • Antonym: unserious, trifling, trivial

16. Collection • I am going to add this new stamp to my collection. • I showed her my rock collection. • Look it up in the dictionary. • page146

17. Collection • Similar things gathered together to study or to show to others • Part of Speech:Noun • Sentence Page 18 • Antonym : disperse, distribute • Synonym: accumulation, assortment

18. Stiff • The ice on the flowers made them sostiffthey were not moveable. • My neck got stiff from looking at the kite. • Dictionary • Page 742

19. Stiff • Something not easily bent or not flexible • Part of Speech: Adjective • Sentence Page 24 • Antonym : • flexible, bendable • Synonym: • rigid, unbending

20. Probably • It is cloudy and the sky is getting darker, so it will probablyrain today. • Probably they were still flying higher and higher in the wind. • Dictionary • page587

21. Probably • Most likely to happen • Part of Speech: Adverb • Sentence Page 25 • Antonym : • improbably, unconceivable • Synonym: • conceivable, likely, possible

22. Jerked • He jerked hard on the bell rope to make the bell ring. 3rd grade Unit 1 Friendship Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend

23. jerked • Pulled quickly

24. squawked • gave a noisy shrill or harsh cry

25. Skill Words • Mustache: • Hair growing on a man’s upper lip • Minute: • One of the 60 equal periods of time that make up an hour

26. Skill Words • Strawberry: • Small, juicy,red fruit of a plant that grows close to the ground • Squawked: • Make a loud,harsh sound • Garage: • Place where cars are kept under a cover

27. Background • This story is a realistic fiction about a child whose family relocated to a new city. • Some of the elements of realistic fiction are: • Characters behave as people do in real life. • The setting of the story is a real place or could be a real place. • The events in the story could happen in real life.

28. Student Observation • CluesProblemsWonderings • The title says “Might Be,” laughing Will Julian and Gloria be • maybe Julian isn’t sure what friends? • will happen.

29. First Read pages 14-19 • We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies: • Making connections • Predicting • Summarizing

30. Language Arts, Day 1 • Spelling: The short /a/ sound, pretest • Vocabulary Skill Words: • Mustache minute garage strawberry squawked

31. Spelling pre test • path lamp damp crash plant math trash stamp hatbox have grass rags back black that • Write the words 5 times each.

32. Objectives: Day 2 • You will: • Understand what nouns are and the capitalization of proper nouns. • Develop fluency reading words and sentences. • Use comprehension strategies such as making connections, predicting, and summarizing to construct meaning from story. • discuss personal reaction to the story

33. Day 2 word knowledge • Kite five mine time • High might right tight • Fly cry why • Like liked liking try tried trying • Happen happened happening • Visit visited visiting • Grass rage back black that • Make sentences with 5 of the words, and use: Who? What? Where? How? To extend the sentences.

34. First Read pages 20-25 • We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies: • Making connections • Predicting • Summarizing

35. Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text, Day 1 • With your groups, please discuss the following questions: • Why Julian was worried about being friends with Gloria? • Why Julian changed his mind? • How Julian and Gloria started becoming friends? • What did Gloria probably wish for? • Post any new questions or information you may come up with on the Concept/Question Board.

36. Language Arts Nouns • Nouns name everything. Nouns are words that name people, places, things, and ideas • Example: boy zoo balloons time • Common nouns name any person, place thing, or idea. Common nouns start with a lowercase letter • Example: girl , park, skyscraper, nationality

37. Proper nouns name specific persons, places, things, or ideas. They start with a capital letter. • Example: Megan, Yellowstone Park, Sears Tower, Cuban.

38. Identify the common and proper nouns. Workbook page 2 • A girl named Gloria moved from Newport. • Proper: Gloria and Newport common: girl • Kindness and honesty are important to friendship. • Common: kindness, honesty and friendship • Ann Cameron wrote this story and Ann Strugnell did the illustrations. • Proper: Ann Cameron and Ann Strugnell. Common: story, illustrations • A dictionary is a useful book. • Common: dictionary, book

39. Objectives: Day 3 • You will: • Understand what nouns are and the capitalization of proper nouns. • Develop fluency reading words and sentences. • Use comprehension strategies such classify and categorize • Review the /j/ sound spelled _dge. • Review short vowel sounds

40. Day 3 • Planet Africa practice eggs pencils • Closet robin kitchen inside copy • Bottom cannot upset until hundred • What do these words have in common? • What are the short vowel sounds? • What sound does the e in planet make? • What sound does the last a in Africa make?

41. hedge ridge dodge fudge judge • What do these words have in common? • J sound • What letters make the j sound in these words? • -dge • What is the vowel sound before the _dge? • Short sound

42. Anna was upset when she lost her doll. • The robin sang a pretty song. • Identify words with short vowel sounds. • Anna song upset doll robin • The eggs were small and pale blue. • This sentence is from the story. Identify words with the short vowel sounds. • Eggs and

43. Day 3 Second Read pages 14-19 • We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies: • Classify and Categorize: Readers put like things or ideas together in order to make new ideas and information easier to understand

44. “Second Read Day 3 • Comprehension Skill: • Classify and Categorize • As we read the story a second time, let’s fill in the chart.

45. Language Arts • Write sentences with the following nouns in them: • book • school • airplane, • Yellowstone National Park • beach • Florida

46. Objectives: Day 4 • You will: • Understand what nouns are and the capitalization of proper nouns. • Develop fluency reading words and sentences. • Use comprehension strategies such classify and categorize • Review the /j/ sound spelled _dge. • Review short vowel sounds

47. Oral Language • Planet Africa practice eggs pencils • Closet robin kitchen inside copy • Bottom cannot upset until hundred • hedge ridge dodge fudge judge • From the list give clues for the word you choose Example: • You use this to write.________ • I like ____for breakfast. Then cross out the word used. Clap out syllables after the word is used.

48. Dictation • line 1: ________ ________ ________ • line 2: ________ ________ ________ • Challenge Word: ___________________ • Sentence:_________________________ • _________________________________ • _________________________________

49. Day 4 Second Read pages 20-25 • We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies: • Classify and Categorize: Readers put like things or ideas together in order to make new ideas and information easier to understand

50. “Second Read Day 4 • Comprehension Skill: • Classify and Categorize • As we read the story a second time, let’s fill in the chart.