Lesson 8 Day 4
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Question of the Day
• Have you ever misunderstood a message from
someone? Has anyone ever misunderstood a
message from you? What happened?
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Read Aloud
• What is the purpose of reading a story?
• for enjoyment
• to practice reading
• to learn about a topic
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Read Aloud
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Read Aloud
• What message did Joey think the skunk was
communicating?
• What message was the skunk really sending
Joey?
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Phonics and Spelling
• We have been studying words with ou, ow, oi, and oy.
• Recognizing these letter patterns can be very helpful in
reading longer words.
• Identify the word with oi.
• shower, joyful, couches, avoid
• Avoid is a two syllable word with the emphasis on the second
syllable. What sound does oi stand for.
• Identify the word with ou.
• Identify the word with ow.
• Identify the word with oy.
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Phonics and Spelling
• boiling soiled
pointed
• Recognizing word parts like these can help you read
words.
• Find the words with the patterns ou, ow, oi, and oy.
• If you put poison around the weeds, it will destroy
the flowers.
• My noisy dog enjoys howling at the mountains.
• “My towel is wet,” said the Girl Scout in an annoyed
voice.
• Roy the Clown was disappointed that the day was
cloudy.
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Phonics and Spelling
Identify the vowel sound and letters that make
the sound in each word.
foil, loud, gown, coil, house, annoy, growl, moist,
enjoy, round, spoil, mouse, clown, bounce,
cowboy
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Fluency
• Good readers use punctuation in each sentence as a
signal for when to pause, stop, and change the tone
of their voice.
• Quotation marks signal someone’s exact words.
• When you read words in quotation marks, you can
change the tone of your voice to signal that someone
is speaking.
• Listen as I read page 240 aloud.
• Reread page 240 with me.
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Main Idea and Details
• What is a main idea?
• The most important idea
in a writing.
• What are supporting
details?
• Information that tells
about the main idea.
• What are non-supporting
details?
• Information that does not
tell about the main idea.
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Main Idea and Details
• Reread page 237. Working with a
partner to answer these questions.
1. What is the main idea?
2. What details support the main idea?
3. What details do not support the
main idea?
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Build Robust Vocabulary
• Raise your hand if you think this animal might be
charging.
• lion, worm, goldfish, bull
• If you think an animal might be ferocious at the time
I describe, growl like a ferocious beast.
• A bear whose cub is in danger.
• One penguin greeting another.
• A canary about to sing.
• A tiger that is very hungry.
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Build Robust Vocabulary
• Puff up your chest if you think this person is
dominant. Shrink down if you think the person does
not sound dominant.
• I always finish last.
• I can run faster than anyone.
• I will do this better than you.
• I’m the world’s best baseball player.
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Build Robust Vocabulary
• How would you communicate with someone
who lives far away.
• If you flick your head from side to side, how
fast are you moving it?
• If someone were in danger from a fast-moving
car, how could you alert the person?
• How can you signal someone to be quiet?
• What is a topic that people might chatter
about?
• What do people do when they groom
themselves?
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DOL
• doctor Andrea j tanaka
• thurs,oct 30
• mrs Willa c nguyen
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Grammar
• Most abbreviations begin with a capital letter
and end with a period.
• However, state abbreviations have two capital
letters and no punctuation. FL, TX, CA, AL
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Grammar
Which words can be abbreviated in this address?
Steele Junior High School
105 McHugh Street
Steele, Alabama 35987
Jr. St. AL
WB page 29
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Writing
• Today you will write detail sentences. These
sentences need to support or tell about the
main idea.
• The words you choose to use in your writings
should paint a clear mental picture of an
animal.
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Writing
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A Description
Uses vivid words that appeal to the senses.
Uses precise words that give specific information about the
topic.
Uses different types of language.
Includes a main idea for each paragraph.
Includes detail sentences that tell about the main idea of each
paragraph.
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