“Charlotte’s Web”
Theme 6 Lesson 26
Day 3
A-Z Fluency
• Let’s start the day with A-Z fluency
• Grab your pages from the back table!
Question of the Day
What kind of farm animal would you like
to be? Why?
If I were a farm animal, I would want to
be a _______ because ________.
T244
Today’s Read Aloud
• Set a purpose – Why would someone
want to read or listen to a poem more
than once?
To understand the characters and
meaning better, to enjoy the rhyming
words.
• Listen and follow along as I read the
poem aloud. Listen to the poem’s
musical rhythm and
rhyming
words.
T157
A Pig is Never Blamed
A pig is never blamed in case
He forgets to wash his face.
No dirty suds are on his soap,
Because with soap he does not cope.
He never has to clean the tub
After he has had a scrub.
For whatever mess he makes,
A bath is what he never takes.
But then, what is a pool to him?
Poor pig, he never learns to swim.
And all the goodies he can cram
Down his gullet turn to ham.
It’s mean:
Keeping clean.
You hardly want to, till you’re very big.
But it’s worse to be a pig.
Now, choral read with similar accuracy, pausing and/or stopping
whenever a comma or period appears.
Today’s Read Aloud
• What does the writer think of pigs?
• What happens to all the goodies that the pig
eats?
• Which words rhyme with soap and tub?
Suffixes –tion, -sion
Many words end with the suffix –tion , and –
sion is pronounced /shen/. The final
consonant or vowel is usually dropped from a
root word when –tion is added.
election
production
preparation
Notice the –tion ending in all of these words.
When –tion is added to a root word, it makes a
word with more than one syllable. The
syllable that is stressed, however, usually
does not change.
T158
Suffixes
elect
election
The second syllable is stressed in elect and the same syllable is stressed
in election.
There are some word pairs in which a different syllable is stressed, such
as prepare and preparation. These words are exceptions that you
should learn.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Words with –tion:
You can feel the balamotionor of the engine.
When are you going to rovacationmop?
Mr. Gonzalez asked a motiquestionnav.
Wilbur ate a large pessiportionactio.
This story is portifictiona.
Identify the –tion words in the jumbled underlined words.
 section
 caution
 fiction
 nation
 action
 vision
 vacation
 motion
 question
 mention
 station
 attention
 portion
 collection
 session
T31
Roll and Read/Spell
Dice
Number
Spelling Words –
section
action
fiction
caution
nation
vacation
vision
session
admission
portion
attention
motion
mention
station
question
collection
decision
Comprehension: Make Inferences
Figuring out information is one of the fun parts
of reading. Readers make inferences by
combining what they know with information
that the writer gives them. Making inferences
helps readers better understand a story.
Turn to page 309 in your Student Edition.
• What does Charlotte say about people walking
across the Queensborough Bridge?
• What do you know about people living in a big city?
• What do you think is the message of this passage?
Now let’s read
“Charlotte’s
Web” on page
300
Vocabulary
• How might a bristly hairbrush feel? What
other objects feel bristly?
• What dreadful sound have you heard?
• What words do you hear summoning you to
the breakfast table?
• What can you say to a person who is being a
nuisance?
• Are there times when you feel like being
sedentary?
• What would you do to oblige your neighbor?
Vocabulary
• Why would a kindergartner feel like boasting?
• How do swings move when they sway?
• What do you do to show that you are
adamant about something?
• What things are inevitable on the Fourth of
July?
Multiple-Meaning Words
Words may have more than one meaning. For
instance, the word calf may mean “a baby
cow” or “the part of the lower portion of a
person’s leg.” To figure out which meaning of
a word like this is being used in a sentence,
you can get help from the other words in the
sentence. They usually provide clues to which
meaning of a multiple-meaning word is being
used.
Multiple-Meaning Words
He brings his bat to baseball practice.
The bat catches an insect.
Bat is in both sentences. Even though bat is
spelled the same, it means two different
things. What clue words tell you what bat
means in each of these sentences?
Multiple-Meaning Words
pen
ball
Pen and ball each have more than one meaning.
Each word will answer two of the following
questions.
1. What kind of tool do you use to write?
2. What round object is kicked in a soccer
game?
3. Where do pigs live on a farm?
4. Where did Cinderella lose her glass slipper?
Irregular Verbs
jumped laughed played
How do we know these are regular past-tense verbs?
Irregular verbs that end in the past tense do not end in –ed.
runned sayed
bringed/brung
ringed/runged
These odd pronunciations tell you that something is wrong.
These are irregular verbs and do not have an –ed ending.
How can I correct these verbs?
Christine bringed her pet hamster to class.
What is the verb? What is the correct form of the
verb?
Brought tells about a past event and does not end in –
ed.
Grammar
DOL
Write these sentences correctly.
Marvin
ran
1. marvin runned away from the bee.
brought
2. Cassie bringed her new purse?
Now let’s look at page 311 and think about these questions.
Monitor Comprehension
1. He is cheerful, determined,
friendly, and willing to try
new things.
2. She feels delighted and
proud that he is not a
quitter.
3. No. He would figure it out
on his own.
4. Charlotte talks about the
people who rush over the
Queensborough Bridge.
5.
T50
“Caterpillars Spin Webs, Too!”
“Caterpillars Spin Webs, Too!” is an example of
expository nonfiction. Nonfiction explains a
topic and gives facts and details about it.
Features that make nonfiction different from
poetry or fiction:
• Graphic aids, such as photographs, illustrations, or
diagrams
• Captions that explain the graphic aids
• Headings that tell readers what each section is about
“Caterpillars Spin Webs, Too!”
Follow along with me as I read “Caterpillars Spin
Webs, Too!” on pages 314-315. Spiders are
not the only creatures that make webs. Listen
for important facts and details.
• Why do caterpillars spin webs?
• What do caterpillars weave into their webs?
• Does “Caterpillars Spin Webs, Too!” give
made-up information or facts?
Connections
1. Think about the reason that caterpillars spin
webs and the reason that spiders spin webs.
How are they alike? How are they different?
2. Would you like to have a friend like
Charlotte? Explain.
3. Could the events in “Charlotte’s Web”
happen in real life? How do you know?
Sight-words and Jigword
• 4th Grade sightwords
• Lesson 26 Jigword
• Fry Phrases