Grammar
Student;video hub;grammar snaps;lesson 4
Complete sentences vs fragments
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UNIT 1: LESSON 4
WEEK OF AUGUST 26-30
SPELLING
Short o and Long o
1)
block
11)
throat
2)
shown
12) host
3)
oatmeal
13)
online
4)
wrote
14)
shock
5)
fellow
15)
solve
6)
scold
16)
Long o
Ow as in fellow
CVCe as in wrote
Oa as in coast
Short o
CVC as in block
Spelling pattern sort:
stock
host
coast
known
slope
INTONATION: the rise and
fall of the voice in speaking.
Good readers raise and
lower the pitch of their
voices to show things such
as the beginning of a new
sentence or to indicate that
they are asking a question.
Intonation helps listeners to
understand how characters
feel and to keep track of
ideas and events.
TEACHER READ ALOUD
“Bookmobile Rescue”
Vocabulary:
assist
misjudged
suspect
innocent favor
speculated
burglaries
scheme
FICTIONAL NARRATIVES
INTRODUCTION:
FICTIONAL NARRATIVE:
● It is an imaginative story about characters who solve a
problem.
● The beginning introduces the setting, the characters,
and the problem in an interesting way.
● In the middle of the story, the plot events show how the
characters deal with the problem. Events are usually told
in chronological order. Chronological order is the order
in which things happened.
● The climax, which takes place near the end, is the most
exciting point at which the problem is solved.
LET’S EXPLORE VARIOUS
TYPES OF FICTIONAL
NARRATIVES!
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Anchor text: “The Power of W.O.W.”
Authors write stories and plays to entertain,
but most also want their reading audience to come away
with an important message. This message is called the
THEME. Authors rarely state the theme directly, but
instead reveal it through details about the setting,
characters, and the characters’ actions. By looking
closely at these elements, the audience can infer, or
figure out, the theme. Notice the inference map on page
108 in your book. You will use a similar chart to record
the story elements in the play, “The Story of W.O.W."
***REMEMBER***
● Subject (noun/pronoun) - the part of a
sentence that tells who or what is doing
the action
● Predicate (verb) - the part of the sentence
that tells what action is being done
A fragment does not tell a complete thought.
It is missing a subject, a verb, or both.
What is missing from each fragment?
A subject (noun/pronoun) or a predicate (verb)?
1. Sat under the tall oak tree.
2. The three brown squirrels.
3. Some slimy salamanders.
4. Eating algae off the rocks.
5. Hedgehogs from the zoo.
6. Rolling into a prickly ball.
Reader’s notebook page 43
Independent practice with sentence fragments
Tuesday
Before we reread “The Power of W.O.W.!” let’s
review a few terms.
Rehearsal Time!
We will choral read page 117, using the
punctuation to guide our intonation. Our
intonation will help reflect the ideas and
emotions of the dialogue.
*LET’S READ IN A NORMAL VOLUME AND
STAY TOGETHER
LET’S REREAD:
“THE POWER OF W.O.W.!”
Analyze the text:
pg. 113,
pg. 116-117,
(teacher pgs. T249, T253, T257).
Your turn: pg. 124
● Turn and Talk
● Classrom Conversation
pg.121
DAILY PROOFREADING PRACTICE:
1. Can’t find her pen.
2.
My favorite color.
You Do: Reader’s NB p.44
The writing focus:
Writers introduce the plot of a narrative at the beginning of the text. This tells the
reader the main problem in the narrative and why it matters to the characters.
From there, the text is organized around the steps towards how the characters
solve the problem.
Writers sometimes state the reasons for events or action and other times they
just give hints, expecting the reader to figure out the reasons. For instance”
Instead of this:
The author wrote this:
of it.
Ileana really enjoyed coming to W.O.W.
I have some money saved. You can have it - all
Readers Notebook: pg.48