Why are family celebrations special? Click to listen to the story.

Why are family celebrations special?Click to listen to the story.

Birthday Basket for Tia

Birthday Basket for TiaWednesday

Today we will learn about: • Base Words and Endings • Syllables –tion, -ture • Amazing Words • Words from Other Languages • Fluency • Grammar

brilliant • bril – liant • If something is brilliant, it is very bright and sparkling. • The diamond ring was brilliant. • The colored lights in the night parade were brilliant. • The stars are brilliant tonight.

snapshot • snap - shot • A snapshot is a simple picture taken with a camera. • I took a snapshot of my birthday cake. • It was difficult to take good snapshots from the moving car.

Inflected Endings • tried • You can read this word because you know how to read base words and endings. • You can cover the endings, read the base word, and then blend the base word and ending to read the whole word.

Inflected Endings • Remember that –ed is added to a base word to show that something has happened in the past. • Sometimes the spelling of the base word changes. • Sometimes the final consonant is doubled before adding an ending.

Inflected Endings

Vocabulary • Which is a present—a toy you give your friend for her birthday or a book you check out of the library?

Vocabulary • Which is a present—a toy you give your friend for her birthday or a book you check out of the library? • Which is your aunt—your mother’s sister or your mother’s mother?

Vocabulary • Which is a present—a toy you give your friend for her birthday or a book you check out of the library? • Which is your aunt—your mother’s sister or your mother’s mother? • Which is a basket—something you eat at a birthday party or something you can carry things in?

Vocabulary • Which is someone who collects something—a girl who picks up everyone’s papers or a boy who loses his book?

Vocabulary • Which is someone who collects something—agirl who picks up everyone’s papers or a boy who loses his book? • Which is a bank—a kind of cookie or a place to store your money?

Vocabulary • Which is someone who collects something—agirl who picks up everyone’s papers or a boy who loses his book? • Which is a bank—a kind of cookie or a place to store your money? • Which is your favorite shirt—the shirt you didn’t want to get or the shirt you wear all the time?

Words from Other Languages • In A Birthday Basket for Tia there were many words written in Spanish. • We knew they were in Spanish because the print was different; the words were italicized. • The first Spanish words were Noventa anos! which means Ninety years old!

Words from Other Languages • Look in your story to see what these words mean. • bizcochos • sugary cookies • Que pasa? • Whatisit? • feliz cumpleanos • HappyBirthday

Commas • Commas are used in addresses, between a city and a state. • Commas are used in dates, between the day and year. • Commas are used after the greeting and closing in a letter. • Commas are used to separate three or more things in a list.

Commas • April 18 2007 • April 18, 2007 • Greenwood California • Greenwood, California • June 2 2008 • June 2, 2008

Wrap Up Your Day! • Draw Conclusions • Appropriate Phrasing • Let’s Talk About It • Tomorrow we will listen to poems about special occasions.

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APTPlus Videos(password required) • Mexico’s Day of the Dead: Elementary Spanish: Grades One through Two: Unit Seven, Lesson Two (20:55) • There's No Food Like My Food: Rosita in Mexico (13:00) • Birthday Celebrations and Quinceañera (01:46)

Story test Classroom webpage, Student page, Taking Tests AR Other Reading Quizzes Quiz # 904616 We are now ready to take our story tests.

Why are family celebrations special? Click to listen to the story.