Grade 3
Unit 1 Lesson 1
Friendship
Gloria Who Might be My Best Friend
By Nancy Moralez
Objectives:
 You will:
– recognize base words and inflectional endings.
– Review short vowel sounds.
– Spelling sound long /i/ i_e, _y, igh.
– Develop fluency reading words and sentences.
Word Knowledge Day One
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kite five mine time high might right
tight fly cry why
What do these words have in common?
The /i/ sound and spelling i_e, igh, and _y
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like liked liking try tried trying
happen happened happening
visit visited visiting
What do these words have in common?
Ending added to the base words.
What is the base word?
like, happen, visit
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rags
back
black
that
What do these words have in common?
The sound of /a/
What is the /k/ sound spelled with a /ck/?
Because of the short vowel sound.
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I might try to fly a kite.
Why do you try not to cry?
I don’t like to fight.
Find the long /i/ spelled with _y.
try, fly, why
Find the sound spelled with igh.
might
Find the sound spelled with i_e
kite
What is the word I?
Pronoun
Objectives:
 You will:
– recognize base words and inflectional endings
with the /i/ sound and –ed and -ing.
– Use comprehension strategies such as making
connections, predicting, and summarizing to
construct meaning from story.
– discuss personal reaction to the story
– understand the selection vocabulary before
reading using structural cues..
Discussion Strategy Use
 How did you make connections?
 Use prior knowledge and what you know or
have experienced.
 Where did you pause in the reading to
summarize?
 How did you make, confirm, and revise
predictions as you read?
 What predictions did you make?
Vocabulary
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Tease
Lonely
Seriously
Collection
Stiff
Probably
tease
 If you have a girl for a friend, people find out
and tease you.
 Sometimes my brother and sister tease me
when I am trying to work.
 Look the word up in the dictionary.
 Page 774
Tease
 To make fun of someone, to
annoy continuously
 Part of Speech: Verb
 Sentence Page 14
 Antonym :comfort, ease
 Synonym: annoy, harass
lonely
 I was walking down the street feeling lonely.
 I thought the new student looked lonely at
the lunch table, so I sat down across from
her to talk.
 Look the word up in the dictionary.
 Page 435
Lonely
 Feeling sad or being alone
 Part of Speech: Adjective
 Sentence Page 14
 Synonym: forlorn,
lonesome
 Antonym: accompanied
Seriously
 Grandmother seriously thought about my
question before she answered it because she
wanted to be sure she gave me the right answer.
 But she just looked at me very seriously and said,
“It takes practice,” and then I liked her.
 Look it up in the dictionary.
 Page 678
Seriously
 Thoughtfully, Sincerely
 Part of Speech: Adverb
 Sentence Page 16
 Synonym: actively, earnestly,
for real
 Antonym: unserious, trifling,
trivial
Collection
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I am going to add this new stamp to my collection.
I showed her my rock collection.
Look it up in the dictionary.
page146
Collection
 Similar things gathered
together to study or to
show to others
 Part of Speech:Noun
 Sentence Page 18
 Antonym : disperse,
distribute
 Synonym: accumulation,
assortment
Stiff
 The ice on the flowers made them so stiff they
were not moveable.
 My neck got stiff from looking at the kite.
 Dictionary
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Stiff
 Something not easily bent
or not flexible
 Part of Speech: Adjective
 Sentence Page 24
 Antonym :
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flexible, bendable
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rigid, unbending
Probably
 It is cloudy and the sky is getting darker, so it will probably
rain today.
 Probably they were still flying higher and higher in the
wind.
 Dictionary
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Probably
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Most likely to happen
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Part of Speech: Adverb
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Sentence Page 25
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Antonym :
improbably, unconceivable
Synonym:
conceivable, likely, possible
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Jerked
 He jerked hard on the bell rope to make the bell
ring.
3rd grade Unit 1 Friendship
Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend
jerked
 Pulled quickly
squawked
 gave a noisy shrill or harsh cry
Skill Words
 Mustache:
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Hair growing on a man’s
upper lip
 Minute:
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One of the 60 equal
periods of time that make
up an hour
Skill Words
q Strawberry:
 Small, juicy,red fruit
of a plant that grows
close to the ground
 Squawked:
 Make a loud,harsh
sound
 Garage:
 Place where cars
are kept under a
Background
 This story is a realistic fiction about a child
whose family relocated to a new city.
 Some of the elements of realistic fiction are:
 Characters behave as people do in real life.
 The setting of the story is a real place or
could be a real place.
 The events in the story could happen in real
life.
Student Observation
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Clues
Wonderings
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The title says “Might Be,”
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maybe Julian isn’t sure what
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will happen.
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Problems
laughing
Will Julian and Gloria be
friends?
First Read pages 14-19
 We are going to read our selection using
these comprehension strategies:
 Making connections
 Predicting
 Summarizing
Language Arts, Day 1
 Spelling: The short /a/ sound, pretest
 Vocabulary Skill Words:
 Mustache minute garage strawberry squawked
Spelling pre test
 path
math
grass
lamp damp crash plant
trash stamp hatbox have
rags back black that
 Write the words 5 times each.
Objectives: Day 2
 You will:
– Understand what nouns are and the
capitalization of proper nouns.
– Develop fluency reading words and sentences.
– Use comprehension strategies such as making
connections, predicting, and summarizing to
construct meaning from story.
– discuss personal reaction to the story
Day 2 word knowledge
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Kite five mine time
High might right tight
Fly cry why
Like liked liking try tried trying
Happen happened happening
Visit visited visiting
Grass rage back
black that
Make sentences with 5 of the words, and
use: Who? What? Where? How? To extend
the sentences.
First Read pages 20-25
 We are going to read our selection using
these comprehension strategies:
 Making connections
 Predicting
 Summarizing
Investigating Concepts Beyond the
Text, Day 1
 With your groups, please discuss the following
questions:
– Why Julian was worried about being friends with
Gloria?
– Why Julian changed his mind?
– How Julian and Gloria started becoming friends?
– What did Gloria probably wish for?
 Post any new questions or information you may
come up with on the Concept/Question Board.
Language Arts Nouns
 Nouns name everything. Nouns are words
that name people, places, things, and ideas
 Example: boy zoo balloons time
 Common nouns name any person, place
thing, or idea. Common nouns start with a
lowercase letter
 Example: girl , park, skyscraper, nationality
 Proper nouns name specific persons,
places, things, or ideas. They start with a
capital letter.
 Example: Megan, Yellowstone Park, Sears
Tower, Cuban.
Identify the common and proper
nouns. Workbook page 2
 A girl named Gloria moved from Newport.
 Proper: Gloria and Newport common: girl
 Kindness and honesty are important to
friendship.
 Common: kindness, honesty and friendship
 Ann Cameron wrote this story and Ann
Strugnell did the illustrations.
 Proper: Ann Cameron and Ann Strugnell. Common: story, illustrations
 A dictionary is a useful book.
 Common: dictionary, book
Objectives: Day 3
 You will:
– Understand what nouns are and the
capitalization of proper nouns.
– Develop fluency reading words and sentences.
– Use comprehension strategies such classify and
categorize
– Review the /j/ sound spelled _dge.
– Review short vowel sounds
Day 3
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Planet Africa practice eggs pencils
Closet robin
kitchen inside copy
Bottom cannot upset
until
hundred
What do these words have in common?
What are the short vowel sounds?
What sound does the e in planet make?
What sound does the last a in Africa make?
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hedge
ridge dodge fudge judge
What do these words have in common?
J sound
What letters make the j sound in these
words?
 -dge
 What is the vowel sound before the _dge?
 Short sound
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Anna was upset when she lost her doll.
The robin sang a pretty song.
Identify words with short vowel sounds.
Anna song upset doll robin
The eggs were small and pale blue.
This sentence is from the story. Identify
words with the short vowel sounds.
 Eggs and
Day 3 Second Read pages 14-19
 We are going to read our selection using
these comprehension strategies:
 Classify and Categorize: Readers put like
things or ideas together in order to make
new ideas and information easier to
understand
“Second Read Day 3
 Comprehension Skill:
– Classify and Categorize
 As we read the story a second time, let’s fill in the chart.
Furniture
Wishes
The natural
world
Things birds
do
Things
Friends do
together
Language Arts
 Write sentences with the following nouns in
them:
 book
 school
 airplane,
 Yellowstone National Park
 beach
 Florida
Objectives: Day 4
 You will:
– Understand what nouns are and the
capitalization of proper nouns.
– Develop fluency reading words and sentences.
– Use comprehension strategies such classify and
categorize
– Review the /j/ sound spelled _dge.
– Review short vowel sounds
Oral Language
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Planet Africa practice eggs pencils
Closet robin
kitchen inside copy
Bottom cannot upset
until
hundred
hedge
ridge dodge fudge judge
From the list give clues for the word you
choose Example:
 You use this to write.________
 I like ____for breakfast. Then cross out the
word used. Clap out syllables after the word
is used.
Dictation
 line 1: ________ ________ ________
 line 2: ________ ________ ________
 Challenge Word: ___________________
 Sentence:_________________________
 _________________________________
Day 4 Second Read pages 20-25
 We are going to read our selection using
these comprehension strategies:
 Classify and Categorize: Readers put like
things or ideas together in order to make
new ideas and information easier to
understand
“Second Read Day 4
 Comprehension Skill:
– Classify and Categorize
 As we read the story a second time, let’s fill in the chart.
Julian’s
Things
Things
needed to
make a kite
How to make
wishes
How to fly a
kite
Things
Friends
can share
Checking Comprehension
 Why is Julian worried about being friends with a
girl?
 Because people might tease him,
 Why does Julian decide he wants to be friends
with Gloria?
 Because she is his age and she is nice to him.
 How do Julian and Gloria start to become friends?
 They talk to each other. Julian shares with Gloria
and shows her a bird’s. They make a kite together
and make wishes
Day 5…
General Review and test time