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Unit 2 Week 2 My Diary from Here to There

Unit 2 Week 2 My Diary from Here to There. Mrs. Murray’s 4 th Grade eMINTS Classroom Created by: Miss Foster’s eMINTS4ALL Classroom. Vocabulary. overheard - heard something when you were not supposed to border - a line where one country ends and another begins

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Unit 2 Week 2 My Diary from Here to There

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  1. Unit 2 Week 2My Diary from Here to There Mrs. Murray’s 4th Grade eMINTS Classroom Created by: Miss Foster’s eMINTS4ALL Classroom

  2. Vocabulary • overheard- heard something when you were not supposed to • border- a line where one country ends and another begins • opportunities- good chances; favorable times • citizen- a person who was born in, or chooses to be a member of, a country • unions- groups of workers joined together to protect their interests • strikes- work stoppages to fight together for better work conditions • boycotts- agreement to join with others in refusing to deal with a person, nation, or business Vocabulary Game http://www.fcatexplorer.com/media/parent/tiplister/flash/tip121a.swf

  3. Vocabulary:Words in Context • We learned that people in many cities organized _____ to protest the rules for riding buses. • The fight for Civil Rights happened on both sides of the _____ between the northern and southern states. • Some _____ of Montgomery, Alabama, decided to stop riding the buses until they had equal _____ . • In other cities, there were workers who went on _____ . • Finally, a _____ was created to help change the laws in the United States. • I _____ there might be a strike in our city tomorrow.

  4. Vocabulary:Word Origins Practice: Word Origins • Some words come from the names of people. For example, the Fahrenheit temperature scale is named after Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, who invented it. • The meaning of words is found in their history. Spelling preserves the meaning and holds keys to understanding words deeply.

  5. Vocabulary: Story Words • escalators- mechanical staircases that continually move up or down • hummingbird- a tiny bird whose wings move so fast they make a humming sound • immigration- the movement of people from their native country to live in another country • immigrants- people who leave their country to live in another country • region- an area or district • ethnic- group of people sharing the same culture • overcrowded- when a place had too many people

  6. Comprehension: Generate Questions • You can generate questions as you read by asking yourself what is happening and what might happen next in the story. • Good readers ask themselves questions as they read to help them to check their understanding of the story and focus on important ideas.

  7. Comprehension:Make Inferences • Good readers draw on clues provided by the author and their own experiences to help them understand what the author has not stated directly. • For example, the author may tell about only a few of a character’s thoughts and actions, but a reader may have experienced something similar and will be able to use that experience to predict what could happen next Inference Practice http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/gigaquiz?path=english/reading/inference_test&infile=inference_test

  8. Comprehension:Analyze Character • A character is a person or animal in a story. • A major character is necessary to the story; a minor character just adds flavor. • Traits are the special qualities of the character’s personality. • Developing an understanding of a character helps readers relate to that character. It also enables them to appreciate the character’s feelings and predict how he or she will behave. Character Traitshttp://www.fcatexplorer.com/media/parent/tiplister/flash/tip121a.swf

  9. Genre:Realistic Fiction • It is a made-up story that could have happened in real life.

  10. Genre:Textbook Excerpt • Provides information about a specific subject • Contains headings, paragraphs, and bold-faced words that organize the information • Usually includes photographs or other visual sources of information • Are short nonfiction pieces taken from a textbook

  11. Text Feature:Primary Sources • Primary sources give readers glimpses of what life was like for people living in other time periods. • Primary sources are first-person accounts. • Are first person accounts of historical events in letters, journals, or oral histories

  12. Fluency:Punctuation/Quotation Marks • Pay close attention to punctuation this will help you with intonation and expression. • When reading with a partner, take turns reading the sentences aloud and practice pausing for commas, dashes, and ellipses.

  13. Phonics:Decode Words with th, sh, wh, and ph • Diagraphs are two letters that represent one sound. • The digraph th represents the first sound in this or thing. • The digraph sh represents the first sound in shoe. • The digraph wh usually represents /w/ or /hw/ in whistle. It sometimes stands for the /h/ in whole.

  14. Phonics:Create a list of words that end in sh, th, or ph

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