Rate and Review

1. Rate and Review especially congratulated immediately crumbled vanished steady Write vocabulary words on chart and rate your knowledge of each word. Things to think about: Pronouncing the word: blend, chunk, base word plus prefix or suffix Defining the word: background knowledge Using the word in a sentence: background knowledge

2. Text, author, and reading goal Today you will begin reading the Houdini box by Brian Selznick. As you read you will learn how the author develops his characters by focusing one what they do, think, feel, and say.

3. Team Score Sheet • Write in names • Write in strategy – Characterization • Set new goals

4. Team Cooperation Goal • Active Listening • Eyes on speaker • Sit up straight • Ask questions • Listen carefully

5. Vocabulary especially congratulated immediately crumbled vanished steady

6. especially Particularly; mainly; above all I really love eating pie but I especially like eating cake because it is my favorite.

7. immediately instantly You need to pay attention immediately if there is an earthquake so you can get out of the building quickly.

8. vanished disappeared quickly The elephant vanished before my eyes when the magician said the magic words.

9. congratulated praised The class congratulated the student for getting an A+ on the math test.

10. crumbled Fell apart The cookie crumbled in my hand and fell into pieces because it was so dry.

11. steady Constant; sturdy; fixed The snow came down at a steady pace and covered the front lawn like a blanket.

12. Build Background What kind of person does the following things: • Run errands for his mother • helps his father clean out the basement • helps the neighbor lady feed her pets • mows the grass, and does all his homework every day.

13. Characterization Authors create the idea of a character by focusing on what the character does, thinks, feels, and says

14. Guess who? Tina was walking down the street minding her own business. She found a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk, “Wow, ten whole dollars!” she said. “I could buy lots of cool things with ten dollars.” Nearby she saw a woman rummaging through her purse, looking for something. Suddenly all the things Tina had hoped to buy went out of her head. She walked over to the woman and said, “Excuse me please.” The woman looked up from her purse and replied, “Yes, dear?” Tina held the ten dollar bill out in front of her. “Did you drop this ma’am? I found it on the sidewalk back there.”

15. Listening Comprehension Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Pages 3-7 Discuss characterization Clarify unfamiliar words

16. Days :1-4 Prepare to read! The Houdini Box Reading Goal: Characterization Team Cooperation Goal: Active Listening Genre:Narrative Discussion:Text, illustrations and author information – page411 Preview: Team Talk Questions

17. Teamwork • Read pages 398 with your partner. Make sure that you restate each page after reading and add main idea and details to your story map. • While reading clarify 2 words that are unfamiliar. Use all you strategies • Read page 399 silently – add information to story map

18. Teamwork Continued • Discuss and answer all four questions • Write the answer to 1 and 2 in your journal

19. Class Discussion • What words did you clarify? • Did you restate the pages (paragraphs) you read? • Be prepared to answer the Team Talk questions!

20. Adventures in Writing • Have you ever dreamed of being a magician? If you were a magician, what trick would you like to know how to do?

21. Fluency – 5 min Read page 398 with partner. Give fluency score using fluency rubric.