Fourth Grade: Theme 1 Selection 2 This Land is Your Land

1. Fourth Grade: Theme 1 Selection 2 This Land is Your Land

2. Sound/Spellings for ā • ai /ā/ is used at the beginning or middle of a word or syllable • ay /ā/ is used at the end of a word or syllable • eigh /ā/ is a less common spelling • Examples: • aim air train detail • day spray Sunday • sleigh freight

3. Sound/Spellings for ī • igh /ī/ • Examples: • sigh • thigh • frighten

4. Sound/Spellings for long ā

5. Sound/Spellings for long ī

6. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? braid campaign bait raisin grain spray trait daylight detail dismay

7. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? mayonnaise eighteen weigh sigh sleigh thigh eight slight freight right

8. Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? tight height daylight twilight frighten

9. Teacher Read Aloud: Johnny Appleseed Activate Prior Knowledge: Share what you know about Johnny Appleseed. Share what you know about pioneer life in the United States.

10. Purpose Setting: • Listen for clues that will help you determine the author’s purpose for writing “Johnny Appleseed.” • This is the story of Johnny Appleseed, an American legend. He traveled across the United States planting apple trees and sharing his love of apples with other people. • What do you think is the author’s main purpose for writing this selection? • Why do you think the author includes a description of how Johnny Appleseed looked?

11. Build Concept Vocabulary As he traveled, Appleseed claimed land, cleared it, and planted seeds

12. Build Concept Vocabulary As the new nation began taking root, John Chapman became an American pioneer, and before long he would become a legend…

13. Build Concept Vocabulary He became friends with Native Americans and settlers in the territories he visited.

14. Concept Vocabulary Web territories Places pioneer Exploration People who traveled to new lands settlers

15. Comprehension Skill: Author’s Purpose The author’s purpose is the reason or reasons the author has for writing. An author may write to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express ideas and feelings.

16. Comprehension Skill: Author’s Purpose

17. Strategy: Answer Questions Good readers know where to look for the answers to questions. They know that sometimes the answer to a question is in one place. Other times it is in several places. They know that sometimes they must use what they’ve read plus what they know to answer a question. That is what you usually have to do to answer a question about the author’s purpose

18. Jefferson’s BARGAIN • Author’s Purpose • Preview the article. Do you think the author’s purpose is to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express? • To answer the skill question, look at the title and skim the text. Do you see numbers and dates? What purpose do they suggest? • Is the author’s purpose what you thought it would be when you previewed the article? Why or why not? • Why did the author ask “are you ready?” in the third paragraph?

19. Lewis and Clark and Me A Dog’s Tale Author: Laurie Myers

20. Genre: Historical Fantasy This genre combines both historic events that really happened and fantastic events that could not possibly happen, such as a dog as narrator.

22. The Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition was the first expedition of an overland nature that was taken in the United States to the Pacific Coast and then back.  The team of explorers was headed by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, and it was assisted by Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife, Sacajawea.  The goal of the mission was to get a better understanding of the resources that would be exchanged in the Louisiana Purchase.  This expedition laid a part of the groundwork for the westward expansion of the United States of America. 

23. Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774 and died on October 11, 1809.  He was an American soldier, explorer, and a public administrator.  He is most remembered for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, or Corps of Discovery, along with William Clark to explore the territory gained from the Louisiana Purchase.

24. William Clark was born on August 1, 1770 and died on September 1, 1838.  He was an American explorer, Indian agent, soldier, and a territorial governor.  He was originally a native of Virginia, but he also grew up in Kentucky before he settled in what would later become Missouri.  He led the Lewis and Clark Expedition with William Clark in 1803 until 1805 to the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Louisiana Purchase.

25. The Departure from St. Charles, May 21, 1804

26. More Books Written by Laurie Myers

27. The reason or reasons the author has for writing – to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express ideas or feelings. Author’s Purpose Do you think the author’s purpose is to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express? Synonyms: reason intention Big idea

28. platforms built on the shore or out from the shore; wharves; piers docks The pioneers load their belongs onto flatboats tied to the docks. Synonyms: landing pier wharves

29. going from one region to another with the change in seasons migrating Pioneers saw hundreds of squirrels crossing the river. Were they migrating? Synonyms: leave drift voyage

30. to glance at; look over hastily scan As they traveled, pioneers would scan the country for food and Indians. Synonyms: investigate scope browse

31. a smell scent Synonyms: odor perfume track – trail smell I stuck my nose in the air and recognized the scent immediately.

32. platform built on the shore or out from the shore beside which ships can load or unload wharf I can see the pioneers with all their goods, waiting on the wharf in St. Louis. Synonym: dock slip pier

33. felt a longing or desire yearned My life on the wharves was good, but I was a young dog and yearned for more. Synonym: longed ached

34. Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? Author’s Purpose migrating dock scan scent wharf yearned

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

36. 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. Author’s Purpose 2. docks 3. migrating 4. scan 5. wharf 6. scent 7. yearned

37. Classifying • Place the following words in categories: • scent scan docks • migrating author’s purpose yearned • wharf • 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.

38. Can You Find the Context Clues? 1. The captain of the ship told the sailors to ______ the horizon for land. 2. The young girl __________ to travel to faraway places. 3. Fishermen stood along the _______ trying to catch the evening’s meal from the waters below. 4. The skies overhead are filled with the sounds of honking geese when they are ____________ south for the winter. 5. The _________ was crowded with boxes of food. 6. After reading the selection I have decided that the ______________ was to inform the reader about the route of Lewis, Clark, and Seaman’s journey. 7. The lone wolf used his nose to follow the __________ of his prey. author’s purpose, docks, migrating, scan, scent, wharf, yearned

39. 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Author’s Purpose docks migrating scan scent wharf yearned

40. Word Association Challenge • Which word goes with conducting a search for something? Why? 2. Which word goes with making a wish? Why? 3. Which word goes with dogs tracking or following the trail of another animal? Why? 4. Which word goes with harbor? Why? 5. Which word goes with herds and flocks? Why? 6. Which word goes with fishing? Why? 7. Which word goes with comprehension? Why? Word Bank author’s purpose, docks, migrating, scan, scent, yearned, wharf

41. Tell Me What You Know • Explain situations where you might scan your surroundings. • 2. List animals that are known for migrating to the south. • 3. Think of your favorite story and write what the author’s purpose was for writing it. Remember to tell how you figured • out the author’s purpose. • 4. Describe things or people you would see at a wharf. • 5. Describe and tell why you have yearned for something. • 6. Imagine yourself standing on the docks looking out at the ocean. What could you be doing and why? • 7. Describe your favorite scent and tell when you smell it.