You need your text book, workbook, pencil and journal.

1. You need your text book, workbook, pencil and journal. Lesson 11 Day 1

2. Phonics and Spelling • Listen for the final sound in each of the words below. • candle little simple • When the letters –le appear at the end of a word with consonants before them, they stand for the sound /әl/. • How many syllables are in each of the words above? • two • When one or more consonants appear in a word before –le, the consonant that appears before –le is part of the second syllable. • Let’s divide each of the words above into syllables. • can/dle • lit/tle • sim/ple • These words have two consonants before –le, so the vowel in the first syllable stands for its short sound.

3. Phonics and Spelling • title table • Let’s divide the words above into syllables. • ti/tle • ta/ble • These words have one consonant before –le, so the vowel sound is long. • In each of the words below, divide the words into syllables. Where did you divide the words into syllables? Is the vowel sound long or short? • Remember, if it is divided between two consonants, then the vowel sound is short. • saddle puzzle noble sample cradle • sad/dle puz/zle no/ble sam/ple cra/dle

4. Spelling Pretest • 1. title • 2. table • 3. uncle • 4. apple • 5. cable • 6. bubble • 7. beetle • 8. rattle • 9. purple • 10. little • 11. middle • 12. simple • 13. saddle • 14. trouble • 15. scribble

5. Challenge Words 16. twinkle 17. scrambled 18. sprinkle 19. buckled 20. tablecloth

6. Plot • Open your book to pg. 302. • The important part of a story is the plot, or what happens. • As I read a story, I look for the characters, the setting, and the things that happen. I know that in many stories, things happen because the characters have a problem. How they solve the problem is the story’s plot.

7. PlotRead the story on page 303 and use the chart below as you determine the problem the characters have and what the solution is. Characters Setting S PLOT Problem Important Events Solution How would the solution be different if Lea had won the toss?

8. Plot Characters Setting Lea, Britney, Tamika, Nell The playground PLOT Problem Both girls want to be ringleader. Important Events The girls want to have a circus, their friends have ideas for acts, and they have to choose a ringleader. Solution They flip a coin to decide and Britney wins. S

9. Listening Comprehension • Have you ever been in a play or performance? If so, what was the experience like? • Did you have to try out for a part? Did you get the part you wanted? Were there problems you had to overcome? • Realistic fiction tells a story that could happen in real life. In most realistic fiction, there is a problem that the characters face. • When a story is realistic fiction, I know I will listen to find out how the characters solve a problem. • Realistic fiction stories have a plot: the main character has a problem, and a series of events lead to a solution. • As I read “Evie and Margie” aloud, listen for the character’s problem and for what happens because of it.

10. Listening Comprehension/Plot • After reading: • What makes “Evie and Margie” realistic fiction? • The characters who behave and talk like real people, the realistic settings of their homes and school, & the real-life problem of the girls both wanting to play Cinderella. • What do you think of the ending, or solution to the problem? • Is it something that would happen in real life?

11. Robust Vocabulary • Margie swooned and fell down on the floor weeping. • If you had a terrible shock or surprise that made you faint or fall, you might have swooned. • Would you swoon when you heard terrible news, or when you went for a walk? • Everyone was astonished by Margie’s free-flowing tears. • When you are amazed and surprised by something, you are astonished. • When would you be astonished: when you see an elephant on TV or when there is an elephant in the schoolyard?

12. Robust Vocabulary Carolyn felt envious of the way her parents treated her brother and sister. If you feel envious, you want something that someone else has. Would you be envious of a friend’s toy that you also had or a toy that you didn’t have? Carolyn feels a rivalry with her brother and sister because she thinks she is competing against them for her parents’ love. People who have a rivalry are competing against each other for something. Would there be a rivalry between players on the same team or on two different teams?

13. Grammar: Possessive Nouns • Nouns can be singular or plural to show if they name one or more than one person, place, or thing. • Nouns also have a way to show who or what owns or has something. • The boy’s dog is brown. • Boy’s is a possessive noun. It tells readers that one boy owns the dog. When we want to make a singular noun into a possessive noun, we usually add ΄s at the end. • In each of the sentences below, identify the possessive nouns and describe how they were formed. • Mark’s favorite shirt is bright blue. He wore it to his brother’s party. It is his mother’s favorite shirt, too. • Mark’s; brother’s; mother’s

14. Grammar: Possessive Nouns Each sentence below has a singular possessive noun in it. Identify each possessive noun in each sentence. The dog’s ball rolled underneath the bushes. We went to our cousin’s basketball game. Josiah left his grandma’s house on Tuesday. To get to the playground, walk past Eli’s house. When the girl’s package came, she was happy. The zookeeper washed the elephant’s trunk. My aunt’s painting is beautiful.

15. Writing: Paragraph that Compares • A Paragraph that Compares….. • Is a paragraph that compares two people • It tells how they are alike • Read the paragraph that follows aloud. Think about how the two brothers in the paragraph are alike. • A writer’s voice shows how that writer thinks or feels about a topic. If the writer really likes something, his or her voice will have a positive tone. If the writer does not like something or likes one thing more than another, his or her voice will let the reader know that, as well.

16. Writing: Student Model: Paragraph that Compares Even though they are a year apart in age, the Melendez brothers are alike in so many ways that they could be twins. First of all, they look alike. Both boys have short, dark brown hair, big brown eyes, and are quite tall. Maybe their height is why they both are so good at basketball. They also like the same clothes and often dress alike. They even wear each other’s shirts! Both boys are good students, but they are even better musicians. They play together in the school band. The brothers are the same way about food. Hamburgers are their number one choice, and pizza comes in a close second. The two brothers are so much alike that it is easy to understand why people get them confused!

17. Writing: Paragraph that Compares • fruits vegetables • Are these two good items to compare? Why? • What are some ways in which fruits and vegetables are alike? • You try! Make a list of 10 things to compare. Choose 2 of them to compare. Write a paragraph that compares.