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Grace and the Time Machine

Grace and the Time Machine. B y Mary Hoffman Illustrated by Matthew Faulkner Day 1 Day 4 Day 2 Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources. Study Skills. Genre: Fiction Comprehension Skill: Drawing Conclusions

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Grace and the Time Machine

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  1. Grace and the Time Machine By Mary Hoffman Illustrated by Matthew Faulkner Day 1Day 4 Day 2Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources

  2. Study Skills • Genre:Fiction • Comprehension Skill: Drawing Conclusions • Comprehension Strategy:Answer Questions • Comprehension Review:Compare Contrast • Vocabulary: Prefixes

  3. Genre: Play • A play has all the elements of a story-characters, setting, plot, and theme- but it doesn’t look like a story because it’s written to be performed. As you read, think about how this play might be different as a chapter in a book.

  4. Summary Grace and her friends build a time machine powered by imagination. Using the memories of Grace’s grandmother and Mrs. Myerson, a neighbor, everyone has fun experiencing far-off places such as Gambia, Trinidad, and Heidelberg.

  5. Comprehension Skill Review: Compareand Contrast • A Comparison tells how two or more things are alike. • A Contrast tells how they are different • Clue words such as like or as show comparisons. • Clue words such as but or unlike show contrasts.

  6. Day 1- Question of the Week • What can we accomplish by using our imaginations?

  7. Vocabulary - Say It awkward miracle mechanical capable chant • aboard • vehicle • atlas • reseats

  8. More Words to Know contraption pantomime excursion invention research

  9. Activate Prior Knowledge • Do you think time travel is possible? • If you could make a trip to a different time, would you travel to the future or past? • What would be the benefit of time travel? • Why could traveling through different times be dangerous?

  10. Listen to the story.

  11. Comprehension Skill Tested –Draw Conclusions • When you draw conclusions, you use details and what you already know to form opinions or make decisions about characters and events. • The facts and details are small pieces of information in the story.

  12. Comprehension Skill Tested –Draw Conclusions • Facts and details “add up” to a conclusion. • A flashback briefly “pauses” the present-time events of the story. • A flashback helps explain something that is happening now in the story.

  13. Compare and Contrast Practice

  14. We built a time machine. In our base ment. • 2. It can goes forword or backward in time.

  15. But Prudy herself found that she could barely get to her desk to feed her mice. In this sentence, the word mice is an irregular plural noun. What is the singular form of mice?

  16. mouse The singular noun, mouse, does not add -s or -es to form the plural. Instead, it has a special form: mice

  17. An irregular plural noun has a special form for the plural.

  18. Spelling Wordsadding ar and or • Arkansas • garden • sharp • forward • force sport apartment Florida storm partner

  19. Spelling WordsAdding –s and -es • start • backyard • argue • story • corner alarm form garbage forest morning

  20. CHALLENGE • carnation • margarine • informative • snorkel • departure

  21. Day 2 - Question of the Day • What happens when Grace and her friends use their imaginations?

  22. Vocabulary Strategy Prefixes - • Prefixes are letters added to the beginning of a word that change its meaning. • The prefixre- means “again.” If you retie a knot, you tie it again. • The prefix a means “on, in or at”. If you are abed, you are in bed.

  23. Word Structure Practice

  24. aboard on board; in or on a ship, train, bus, airplane, etc.

  25. vehicle device for carrying people or things, such as a car, bus, airplane, etc.

  26. atlas book of maps

  27. reseats sits again

  28. awkward not graceful or skillful in movement or shape; not easily managed

  29. miracle a wonderful happening that is contrary to, or independent of, the known laws of nature

  30. mechanical like a machine; automatic; without expression

  31. capable having fitness, power, or ability; able; efficient; competent

  32. chant to call over and over again

  33. contraption device or gadget

  34. pantomime to express by gestures

  35. excursion a short trip taken for interest or pleasure, often by a group of people together

  36. invention something made for the first time

  37. research the act of hunting carefully for facts or truth

  38. Weekly Fluency Check -Characterization/Dialogue • Read aloud “Journal of a Teenage Genius” on p. 188m. Explain how you use what you know about the characters to choose a voice for each one and make the dialogue more interesting.

  39. 3. Our time machine took us back in time, we lands in an ancient forest. 4. We saw wolfes and mooses among the trees.

  40. CAN YOU FIGURE OUT THE IRREGULAR PLURAL FORM OF EACH OF THESE NOUNS?

  41. GOOSE GEESE

  42. LEAF LEAVES

  43. LIFE LIVES

  44. MAN MEN

  45. MOUSE MICE

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