Lesson 4 Day 1

1. Lesson 4 Day 1 You will need a pencil, paper, your reading book.

2. Spelling/Phonics • Here is a book. • book • Now I have two books. • books • Books is the plural of book. Plural means “more than one.” • Almost all nouns have a plural form. The plural can be formed in several different ways, depending on the word. A plural is often formed by adding the letter –s to the end of the noun. • clock hill lane • Now add an –s to make each of these words plural. • clocks hills lanes • The final –s may stand for the sound /s/, as in clocks and lanes, or the sound /z/, as in hills.

3. Spelling/Phonics • bug ball dime • Make each word above plural. • bugs balls dimes • Make each of these words plural: star doll line • stars dolls lines

4. 1. ants 2. toys 3. flies 4. things 5. boxes 6. games 7. lines 8. rocks 9. wishes 10. ladies 11. dishes 12. babies 13. bushes 14. glasses 15. puppies 16. families 17. libraries 18. brothers 19. packages 20. melodies Spelling Pretest

5. Locate Information • Turn to Student Edition page 112 and read the information on that page. • Because different parts of a book give different information, knowing what type of information is in each part helps a reader know where to search. • The table of contents shows how the book is organized and where chapters and other parts begin. • When a reader is looking for a particular topic in a book, the table of contents is a good place to begin. • Turn to your table of contents in your Student Edition. • I want to find out what pages our next selection— “Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut”—starts on. I’ll turn to the front of the book and find the table of contents. The table of contents lists all the selections in the book. I’ll look down the list until I find the selection title. I’ll look across to see the page number it begins on.

6. Locate Information • Read the table of contents on Student Edition page 113. • What is the title of the book? • Astronauts in Space • How is the book organized? • In chapters • How many chapters are there? • 5 • Use the Student Edition table of contents to find the first page of “Stone Soup,” “Loved Best,” and “One Small Place in a Tree.” • Record your answers on the chart below.

7. Listening Comprehension • You will be listening to a nonfiction selection called “Reaching for the Moon” about the astronaut Buzz Aldrin. • What do you already know about astronauts and what they do? • The two purposes for reading or listening to nonfiction are to learn and to enjoy. • In autobiography, the characters, setting, and events are real. • The title tells me that this could be a story about space. • As I read the introduction, I realize that the selection is an excerpt—or part of—a larger piece of writing. • As I read further, I learn that Buzz Aldrin is part of an astronaut team that landed on the Moon. Because the author is writing factual information about his life, this nonfiction piece is called autobiography.

8. Listening Comprehension • Listen for the author telling about his own experiences on the Apollo 11. • After Reading • How do you know that “Reaching for the Moon” is nonfiction rather than fiction? • It is not made up; it includes facts about the author’s life. • Who is the I in the selection? • Buzz Aldrin • What was the selection about?

9. Vocabulary • Buzz Aldrin had to persevere to become an astronaut. • You persevere when you keep trying to do something without giving up. • Do you have to persevere to complete your chores, or do you dismiss them? • The Apollo 11 astronauts had confidence when they stepped onto the moon. • If you are sure that everything will work out, you have confidence. • Do you have plenty of confidence when you read aloud, or do you squirm in frustration?

10. Vocabulary • Ellen showed that she was ambitious by working hard to become an astronaut. • An ambitious person is eager to reach a goal. • When you have chores to do, are you ambitious or frustrated? • Ellen wanted to attain her dream of going into space. • When you reach a goal, you attain it. • Which is more important to attain your goals, luck or resources?

11. Grammar • A subject is the part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about. • A predicate is the part of the sentence that tells what the subject does. • A sentence must include both a subject and a predicate. The main verb is included in the predicate. • Neil and I put on our spacesuits. • Neil and I is the subject, or what the sentence is about. • put on our spacesuits is what the astronauts did. This is the predicate.

12. Grammar Practice • Some of the sentences below are missing subjects and others are missing predicates. Complete each sentence by adding either a subject or a predicate. • The Lopez twins _____. • ___ chopped vegetables for dinner. • ___ took a trip to Colorado. • Dogs and cats ____. • My sister Sonya ___. • ___ kicked the soccer ball until it popped. • Yesterday, Mr. Montgomery ___. • ___ bought a new fish tank.

13. Grammar • You try! Write 10 sentences. Underline the subject once and the predicate twice.

14. Writing • A biography is writing that tells the story (or narrative) of a real person’s life. • A biography is nonfiction because it gives real facts and information about an actual person. • The writer of a biography is not the same person the book is about. • A biography… • Is the story of a real person’s life as told by another person • Begins when the person is born or very young. • Because a biography tells about a person’s life, it often begins when the person is young and then tells in order what happens as he or she gets older.

15. Writing • Complete the chart below after reading the following biography about Abraham Lincoln.

16. Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. Until he was two years old, he lived in a one-room cabin in Kentucky. Then, his family moved to a farm ten miles away. In 1816, his family moved to Indiana and later to Illinois. His parents worked hard but did not have a lot of money. Lincoln’s mother died in 1818. When Lincoln was ten, his father remarried. Lincoln’s parents often could not afford to send him to school. Abraham Lincoln taught himself by reading. He learned to write using a piece of charcoal and the bark of a tree. He also asked a lot of questions.

17. Abe grew into a tall young man. In 1831, he began working in a store. He served as a soldier for a few months in 1832, the same year that he first ran for the Illinois General Assembly. He lost the election. He tried running his own store, and then ran again for the Assembly and was elected in 1834. That same year, Lincoln began studying to become a lawyer. He became a well-respected lawyer in Illinois. In 1856, he helped organize the Republican party. He was suggested as a person to run to be Vice President of the United States, but he was not chosen. In 1860, Abe Lincoln was elected the sixteenth President of the United States. He was re-elected in 1864. He died in 1865. He is remembered for leading the country during the Civil War.

18. Writing

19. Writing Prompt • Write a short paragraph about the life of someone you know.