Start the Vocabulary Sheet

1. Start the Vocabulary Sheet

2. Ask yourself if you can say the word. • Do you know what it means? • Can you put it in a sentence? • After you have done this, you should either put a + or a ? next to each word in box 1. • This should be done by 8:25 everyday!

3. Stretching OUrselves By: Alden Carter

4. Relax-loosen up Steve could finally relax after he was finished with her project, he loosened up after a long day.

5. Cure-fix Taking a walk is a great cure for when you’re feeling down, it usually fixes any ailments.

6. Stiff-unbending The pony’s legs were stiff after it was first born, but they loosened up after a while.

7. Impatient-anxious The audience was impatient and began chanting for the performers to start the show.

8. frustrating=-annoying, discouraging It was frustrating for Sean to try to build the model airplane without directions.

9. Nimble-flexible The nimble gymnast easily flipped through the air.

10. Reading Goal: Identifying cause and effect Remember: Cause makes things happen Effects are the things that happen as a result of something else

11. Why do we read? To be informed To follow directions To be entertained

12. We will be doing… • Fluency • Adventures in Writing • Student Test • Team Score Sheets • During the day, put your scores on the Team Score Sheets • Let me assign numbered heads!

13. Team Cooperation Goal Help and Encourage Others

14. Stretching ourselvesVocabulary Words

15. So…what happens if….? • What happens if nobody mows the lawn all summer? • What are some things that make you thirsty? • What happens if you stay up too late at night? • What might make you be late for school?

16. Remember… • To identify cause and effect relationships as you read.

17. Let’s identify cause and effect relationships The helicopter flew through the snowy mountains, taking tourists on a sightseeing trip. As the helicopter flew past an especially tall mountain, the loud sound of the rotors triggered an avalanche. The pilot told the passengers to watch the amazing sight. The sliding snow gathered speed as it roared down the mountainside. It crushed an abandoned lookout station in its path. The passengers were worried until the pilot said, “Don’t worry. Nobody’s use that lookout stations for decades.” The passengers breathed sighs of relief.

18. So… The avalanche started when the helicopter flew past a tall mountain. The loud noise of the helicopter caused the avalanche. So that’s a cause-and-effect connection. The noise was the cause, and the avalanche the effect.

19. Think Pair Share What caused the destruction of the lookout station? The avalanche What happened because the pilot told the passengers that the station was unused? The passengers breathed sighs of relief You will identify cause and effect relationships this week!

20. Newfangled Fairy Tales

21. Newfangled Fairy Tales Think Pair Share What are fractured fairy tales? The are fractured fairy tales. They are based on an original fairy tales but some things are changed to make them funnier!

22. Newfangled Fairy Tales “The Obsolete Dragon” by: Carole G. Vogel This story contains elements of various fairy tales Obsolete means no longer in use

23. So after reading… I think that I can make a cause and effect connection here. Maid Gwendolyn comes to see Sir Dragon. Why does she do this? She tells him that she does not want to marry Sir Grimbald. She tells the dragon that she wants him to fight and defeat Sir Grimbald. So the cause is that Maid Gwendolyn wants Sir Dragon to defeat Sir Grimbald. The effect is that she goes to see Sir Dragon. I connected why a character did something with the thing she did.

24. What do you think this story is about? TPS

25. Team Talk Questions • Why does Emily need to stretch? • What happens to the muscles of people with cerebral palsy? • What things do people with CP have trouble doing? • What does the author include in order to help the reader understand?

26. Partner Reading Page 418 (up to last sentence) aloud with partners Page 419-421 (last sentence) • Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you • Discuss with team words you clarified • Find vocabulary words

28. Team Discussion-15minutes • Discuss answers to team talk questions • Write answers to question 1 and 3

29. Class Discussion • What are some of the words you clarified?

30. Adventures in Writing Imagine you met someone with cerebral palsy. What types of things could you do to help this person in class? Give at least two examples in your response.

31. Scoring Guide You answer the question 25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details 25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it 20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences 20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation 10 points

32. My Example of A.i.w. If I met someone with cerebral palsy, I would do two things to help this person in class. First of all, if they needed to have something done, I would volunteer to help them do it. Second of all, I would ensure that if they needed help in getting somewhere, I would volunteer as well.

33. Vocabulary Meaningful Sentence Practice relax cure stiff impatient frustrating nimble Divide your vocabulary word list with your partner. Choose a word from your list to use in a meaningful sentence.

34. Fluency5 min Pages 418-421

35. Fluency Rubric 100 points Expressiveness Smoothness Rate and correctness 90 points Smoothness Rate and correctness 80 points Rate and correctness 70 points Correctness