1. BY Judith George Illustrated by David Small Day 1Day 4 Day 2Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources So You want to be President?

4. Study Skills • Genre: Expository Nonfiction • Comprehension Skill: Main idea • Comprehension Strategy: Summarize • Comprehension Review: Generalize • Vocabulary: Dictionary/Glossary

5. Genre: Expository Nonfiction • Expository Nonfiction is fiction that gives factual information about the real world. • It explains the nature of something, or tells what something is like. • It uses definitions, comparisons and contrasts, examples, and classifications. • Chapter titles, subtitles, illustrations, charts, and bold type can help determine what is covered.

6. Summary President of the United States is a tough job that many people strive to get. This book tells you what it takes to be president, but also how our past presidents stayed true to themselves and their unique personalities while in office.

7. Comprehension Skill: Generalizing • When you make a statement about all of them together, you are making a generalization. • A generalization is a broad statement that applies to many examples. • Words such as all, none, most, many, always, never, and generally are clues that can signal a generalization.

8. Day 1 - Question of the Week • What is the job of the President of the United States?

9. Vocabulary - Say It • howling • humble • politics • vain • responsibility • Constitution • solemnly

10. More Words to Know execute oath priority capital capitol clerks

11. Comprehension Strategy-Summarizing • A summary is a short statement that tells the main ideas of a selection. • A story summary should tell the goals of the characters, how they try to reach them, and whether they reach them. • A summary of an article should tell the main idea, leaving out unnecessary details. Tips on Summarizing

13. Listen to the story

14. Main Idea and Details • The focus of a paragraph or an article is the topic. • The most important thing about the topic is the main idea. • Small pieces of information that tell more about the main idea are supporting details.

16. 1.It would be fun to read an American Presidents’ jurnal. 2. They’re are many interesting activities at the White house.

17. Plural Possessive Nouns

18. plural noun + apostrophe ________ plural possessive noun

19. 1. The house of my parents is a block away.

20. 1. My parents’ house is a block away.

21. 2. The ideas of the girl were strange.

22. 2. The girl’s ideas were strange.

23. 5. The kite belonging to the boys was made of newspaper.

24. 5. The boys’ kite was made of newspaper.

25. 7. The wishes of those friends came true.

26. 7. Those friends’ wishes came true.

28. Spelling WordsWords with ear, ir, our, ur • return • courage • surface • purpose • first • turkey • heard • early • turtle • birthday

29. Spelling WordsWords with ear, ir, our, ur • journal • courtesy • nourish • purse • furniture • search • curtain • burrow • hamburger • survey

30. CHALLENGE • turquoise • absurd • furthermore • flourish • nourishment

32. Day 2 - Question of the Day • Why do you think the author includes so many details about former presidents?

33. Vocabulary Strategy Dictionary / Glossary • Some words have more than one meaning • Sometimes readers need to check a dictionary or glossary to find the meaning that makes sense for the sentence.

34. Dictionary / Glossary • Dictionaries and Glossaries provide words in alphabetical lists. • Sometimes looking at the words around an unfamiliar word can’t help you. If this happens use a dictionary or glossary.

35. howling very great

36. humble not proud; modest

37. politics the work of government; management of public business

38. vain having too much pride in your looks, ability, etc.

39. responsibility the act or fact of taking care of someone or something; obligation

40. Constitution the written set of fundamental principles by which the United States is governed

41. solemnly seriously; earnestly; with dignity

42. execute to carry out; do

43. oath a solemn promise

44. priority something given attention before anything else

45. capital city where the government of a country, state, or province is located

46. clerks people employed in an office to file papers, type letters, or keep accounts

47. Weekly Fluency- Check Stress Emphasis • Read aloud “Welcome to Washington!” on p. 240m. Explain that you will emphasize certain words to make it easier for listeners to understand information in the text.

48. 3. Did the childrens’ animals ever escape in the White House! 4. Those mices and rats could easily disappear behind a curtin.

49. Possessive Nouns • Possessive nouns show ownership. • A singular possessive noun shows that one person owns something. The girl’scoat is red. • A plural possessive noun shows that more than one person owns something. My friends’bicycles are outside. Click on the smiley face to learn more about singular possessive nouns

50. Singular Possessive Nouns Possessive nouns show ownership. A singular possessive noun shows that one person owns something. The lion’steeth are sharp. Click on the smiley face to learn more about singular possessive nouns