Mom’s Best Friend
365O
• Genre: Nonfiction
• The true account of one family
and their dog guide.
• Selection Summary:
• Leslie and her family learn to adjust
to life without their mother when she
is away training her new dog guide,
Ursula.
Background
366A
• Remember this theme focuses on
relationships between family
members, friends, and others.
• We will read a nonfiction selection
about a blind woman and her guide
dog.
• Let’s read 366-367 to learn about
training dogs to help people.
Phonics/Decoding
367A
• What are our Phonics/Decoding
skills?
• They are chunking, words we
know, beginning and endings,
affixes, syllables, try different
vowel sounds, base words or root
words, blending, look carefully
Phonics/Decoding
367A
• I kept thinking I heard her
whimpering for a game of catch.
• Help me figure out this word.
• I look for familiar parts, like wh,
imp, er, ing. I blend those sounds.
It sounds correct, and I read the
sentence again.
Decoding
Always use your
phonics and
decoding skills
when reading
words you
don’t know.
Vocabulary
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Trans. 4-9
PB 217
367A
• attachment: a feeling of fond
connection between two beings
• braille: a system of writing in
raised dots used by people without
sight
• dog guide: a dog especially trained
to lead people who are blind
Vocabulary
367A
• instinct: a natural feeling that
guides one to act in a certain way
• layout: the arrangement of
something
• mastered: became expert in a skill
or art
• mature: full-grown
Vocabulary
367A
• memorizing: learning by
heart
• obedience: the condition of
being ready to follow orders
• obstacles: things that get in
one’s way
Reading Strategy
Monitor/Clarify
367B
• As you read about Mom and her dog guide,
Ursula, monitor your understanding of Ursula’s
training. If necessary, reread and use the
photographs to clarify.
• As I read I periodically check for my
understanding. Sometimes I’ll read ahead
to clarify something I didn’t understand.
• Remember to look the photographs, read
ahead, or ask questions to help clarify.
Comprehension Skill
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367C
Trans 4-10
• During your reading, note the
details about the main
characters.
• We will record details about the
characters on the Graphic
Organizer.
Comprehension Skills
Noting Details
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Trans 4-10
391A
PB 218
• You must focus on details about the main
characters and the steps they take.
• Pay attention to what happens before,
during, and end of the story.
• By using details, it help you visualize
characters, places, and events. (also pay
attention to the character’s mood)
Information & Study Skills
391C
Paraphrasing
• Paraphrasing is restating what someone
has written or said in your own words,
without changing the meaning.
• When paraphrasing:
• Use your own words
• State the info simply and clearly
• Include all important ideas and
details.
Decoding Longer Words
391E
Syllabication VV Pattern
• She judges her location from a radio playing music in
the center of the pen.
• When 2 vowels appear in a word they usually
make 1 sound, and are kept together when the
word is divided into syllables. Ex. re-peat and
ex-claim.
• However in the word ra-di-o, each vowel gets its own
sound.
• Let’s look at the word obedience, unusual,
diabetes, piano.
• Let’s decode these words.
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PB 222
VV Pattern
• ..\..\Language Arts rules (United)\Vowel sounds
syllable patterns\Long E Words with the CVV
Pattern.asf
Phonics
Less Common Long e Spellings
• Recognizing the less common spellings
that can stand for the long e sound
can help you decode unfamiliar words.
• The letters ei, ey, i, ie, and y can
stand for the long e sound.
• Help me with these words
• relieved, retrievers, machine, perfectly,
received
391F
Spelling
VV Pattern
391G
• Poem, idea, create, diet, liar, diary, riot, area,
giant, lion, radio, cruel, ruin, rodeo, science
• All of these words have the VV syllable pattern
• Divide words into syllables between the vowels
• In the word quiet it follows the same pattern
because the qu is one sound /kw/
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PB 419 Homework PB 223
Vocabulary
• Analogies are
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391G
Exit is to enter as destroy is to ________
Create
Bark is to dog as roar is to _________
Lion
Author is to book as poet is to _________
Poem
Sweet is to sour as kind is to __________
PB 224
Vocabulary Skills
Multiple-Meaning Words
391I
• Mom missed the dog even more.
• She missed the opposite curb and kept
walking toward the traffic.
• The word missed does not mean the
same in both sentences.
• Many words have more than one meaning.
• Usually find the meaning from the
context.
Vocabulary Skills (cont)
Multiple-Meaning Words
391J
• She wrote letters and sent pictures. The
letters on the collar spell the dog’s name.
• She knows from the change in the sound of her
footsteps. I carried loose change in my coat
pocket.
• The trainer forged Ursula into a great dog
guide. Mom and Ursula forged ahead in the
crowd.
• Mom said to be patient. The dog is a patient at
the veterinarian’s office.
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PB 226
Grammar Skills
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Trans 4-12
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PB 227
391K
Commas in a Series
PB 227
• A series is a list of 3 or more items.
• Use commas to separate the items in
a series. Put a comma after each
item in the series except the last
one.
• Use and or or before the last item in
a series.
More Uses for Commas
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Trans 4-13
391K
• Use a comma to set off the words,
yes, no, and well when they appear
as introductory words at the
beginning of a sentence.
• Use commas to set off the names
of people who are addressed
directly.
Commas
Use commas when
listing things.
Use a comma
between a city
and state.
Appositives
391L
• Commas also are used to set off
appositives.
• Appositives are adjectives or
adjectival phrases that directly
follow or precede the nouns they
modify.
• Ex. Ursula, Mom’s new dog guide, was
skittish at first.
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PB 228
Improving Your Writing
391L
• Combining Sentences by Creating a Series.
• Good writers put items in series in one
sentence rather than mentioning the items in
separate sentences.
• Ana bought a dog dish. Then she purchased a
sleeping blanket. After that, she bought a
whistle.
• Improved: Ana bought a dog dish, a sleeping
blanket, and a whistle.
Combining Sentences
Stay away from
choppy sentences.
Combine sentences
that are related.
Spiral Review
391Q
Cause and Effect
• Cause: the reason something
happens
• Effect: what happens as a
result of the cause
Grammar
391R
• A verb phrase is made up of a main verb
and a helping verb.
• The main verb shows action. The helping
verb works with the main verb.
• The verb am, is, and are help other verbs
show an action that is happening now.
• The verbs was, were, have, has, and had
help other verbs show an action in the past.
Verbs
Verbs show action
or state of being.
Helping verbs show when the action
is taking place.
Verbs
Spelling Test
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1. poem
2. idea
3. create
4. diary
5. area
6. giant
7. usual
8. radio
9. cruel
10. quiet
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11. diet
12. liar
13. fuel
14. riot
15. actual
16. lion
17. ruin
18. trial
19. rodeo
20. science
Challenge Words
• appreciate
• variety
• enthusiastic
• realize
• eventually
Study Guide
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Monitor and clarify
Noting details
Paraphrasing
Vv pattern
Long e sound
Multiple meaning
Analogies
Commas
Appositive
Combining sentences
Cause and effect
verbs