Theme 4: Express Yourself

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"Hattie's Birthday Box"

• By
• Pam Conrad
• Illustrated by
• Tim Ladwig

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Summary Slide

• Word Relationships
• Self-Question
• Purpose
• Word Relationships
• Inferences
• About the Author
• Websites

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Word Relationships

• Context clues can help you determine which
  meaning a multiple-meaning word has in a given
  sentence. You must think about the relationship
  between words and ideas.
• Nearby words may give clues to the meaning of a
  word. You might try out different definitions for
  a multiple-meaning word.

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Word Relationships

• Give the meaning of each underlined word.
• The day was bright and clear.
• His directions were not very clear.
• Please clear the dishes from the table.
• The Mets beat the Giants 3 to 2.
• The chef beat the cake batter by hand.
• The money was locked in the safe.
• The mother looked back to see if her son was safe.

not cloudy
easy to follow
remove
defeated
struck, mix
metal box for valuables
all right, free from harm
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Self-Question
Good readers use strategies, such as
self-questioning, to solve problems as they read.
Good readers are active readers, and they pay
attention to whether or not they understand what
they are reading. When you come across an
unfamiliar word while reading, you should use
self-questioning to determine word relationships.
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Purpose

• People often read stories for enjoyment. Set your
  own purpose for reading.
• Read pp. 370 381, Hatties Birthday Box
• Read pp. 382 384, Pandoras Box

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Word Relationships
Context clues in the words, phrases, and
sentences surrounding a word can help readers
determine the meaning of that word. Context
clues are especially important for understanding
words that have more than one meaning and for
distinguishing between homophones, words that
sound alike but have different meanings. Use
context clues to identify each meaning of the
underlined words in the sentences that follow.
Point out the context clues that helped you
determine the meaning.
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• Church bells called the citizens to arms.
• The fans cheered and waved their arms.
• The group climbed up the steep cliff.
• For flavor, let tea steep a few moments.
• The plane was delayed for two hours.
• The shirt was plain, not fancy.

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• Create a sentence using one of the two
  meanings for each multiple-meaning word or
  homophone. Can others identify the meaning you
  used?
• fleet a group of ships or swift
• light brightness or not heavy
• guest/guessed a visitor or to decide without
  knowing exactly

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Word Relationships Homophones

• Spell the homophone that belongs in each blank.
  Then read the completed sentence.
• While _______out the wash, she heard the sound of
  _____ of bells. (ringing, wringing)
• The ______set out from the castle on a dark and
  stormy _____. (knight, night)
• The teacher took a ____ to find out how many
  students had been to the North ____. (Pole, poll)
• The man let out a _____ when he saw that his lawn
  had not been ______(moan, mown)
• He is the only _____ I know who cries when he
  doesnt get any ______. (mail, male)

wringing
ringing
knight
night
poll
Pole
moan
mown
male
mail
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Inferences

• Remember that making an inference is reading
  between the lines for information that is not
  stated in the words. To make inferences, readers
  make connections between information given in the
  text and personal knowledge or experience.
• In the story it says She says now that the war
  is over and most everyone is back home and
  rations are a thing of the past, were going to
  really celebrate.
• The information that people are back home and
  goods are no longer rationed leads me to make the
  inference that during the war, many family
  members were away and also that people did not
  have extra food or items to give as gifts for an
  event such as a birthday.

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What inferences can you make based on the
following sentence, what you recall from the
story, and what you know from personal
experience? Hattie put her arms around her
brother, kissed him on the cheek, and said, Why,
Spencer, it was the best present Ive ever
gotten.

• Spencer is Hatties brother.
• Spencer doesnt think Hattie likes the present.
• Hattie does not care about the money value of a
  gift.

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About the Author Pam Conrad

• Died at the age of forty-eight from cancer
• Wrote more than two dozen books
• Won national awards
• She said, Each book is about my life in one
  disguise or another.
• Harcourt Author Site

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Websites

• Reading Rocket Skills Word Relationships
• Test Tutor Word Relationships
• Grammar Park Exploring the Pronoun Reef
• Grammar Gold More About Pronouns

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Credits

• Harcourt Trophies Distant Voyages, Chicago
  Harcourt, 2003.
• MacMillan Connections Landscapes, New York
  Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987.