A Story, A Story

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A Story,A Story

• Unit 5 Lesson 1
• Vocabulary Picture Dictionary

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Day 1Word Knowledge

• Line 1 furious angry enraged
• What do all these words have in common?
• They are all synonyms, which are words that mean
  the same thing.

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• Line 2 game gold gust gate gopher gutter
• What do all these words have in common?
• They all have the /g/ sound. When the letter /g/
  is followed by an a, o, or u, it makes the /g/
  sound.
• Line 3 weight vein eight sleigh
• What do all these words have in common?
• They are all the long /a/ sound spelled -eigh

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• Line 4 stronger spun stories sticky slap
• These are all words from your story this week and
  they all have consonant blends. Remember in a
  consonant blend all of the consonant sounds are
  heard.

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• Sentence 1 Ananse bowed and answered I shall
  gladly pay the price.
• Sentence 2 He kept then in a golden box next to
  his royal stool.
• Can you find the words that have synonyms?
• (gladly- happily, joyfully kept- guarded, saved)
• Can you find the word that starts with the /g/
  sound? Why does the g make that sound?

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• Sentence 3 Mother held the horses rein as the
  horse pulled the sleigh.
• Can you find the long /a/ words spelled
• -eigh?
• Sentence 4 The spider spun a sticky web across
  the stronger tree.
• Find the words with consonant blends
• (spider, sticky, spun, stronger)

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Day 2 Daily Oral Language

• Choose a word from the word lines and only call
  out its position, for example, Line 2 word 3,
  and select a classmate to read the word you
  chose. Then, use the word in a sentence.

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• Line 1 furious angry enraged
• Line 2 game gold gust gate gopher gutter
• Line 3 weight vein eight sleigh
• Line 4 stronger spun stories sticky slap
• What rhymes with sold and is very shiny yellow?
• What is an age that rhymes with gate?
• What is a homophone for wait?
• What word is a comparative?

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Background Information

• The story A Story A Story is an African
  Folktale. Like many other folktales, the theme
  is about challenge and achievement. African
  folktales are often encouraging and tell stories
  of defenseless people and tiny animals outwitting
  their stronger enemies, and that wit and wisdom
  allow the weak to succeed against all odds.

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• In the story, Ananse achieves his goal by
  tricking and capturing the creatures that the Sky
  God has named as his price. There are many
  folktales that involve characters who trick other
  characters to achieve the same goal and these are
  called trickster tales.

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Preview and Prepare

• Lets read the title, author, and illustrator of
  A Story A Story, and browse through the first
  few pages searching for clues about what the
  story might reveal about storytelling, problems
  you might encounter, such as words you do not
  know, and wonderings about what will happen in
  the story.

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Selection Vocabulary

• defenseless- Without protection unguarded
• helpless

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descendants

• Children grandchildren, and continuing
  generations of an original set of parents those
  who share the same ancestors

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tatter

• to tear make ragged rip

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flamboyant

• Overly colorful, showy appearance or behavior

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furious

• Very angry violent

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Vocabulary Match

• defenseless
• descendants
• tatter
• flamboyant
• furious

• very angry, violent
• overly colorful, showy appearance
• people sharing the same ancestors
• without protection
• tear, make ragged

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Vocabulary Practice

• Spider stories tell how small, __________men or
  animals outwit others.
• Grandfathers__________all came to his birthday
  party.
• We need to take down the flag before the strong
  winds________ it into pieces.
• Her __________clothes and rainbow colored hair
  attracted everyones attention.
• The man was________when the passing car splashed
  mud on his suit.

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Other Important Vocabulary

• Frond- a very large leaf

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calabash

• the shell of a dried gourd, used as a bowl

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gourd

• a melon shaped fruit that can be dried, scooped
  out, and used as a bowl.

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Latex gum

• a sticky liquid taken from a plant

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yams

• a type of sweet potato

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Day 2 Word AnalysisTurn to pg 257 LA Handbook

• Who can tell in 2 simple sentences, 2 things they
  did this morning starting with I?
• Now lets combine them using and
• Who can tell in a simple sentence the kind of
  shoes you are wearing, and then the kind someone
  else is wearing that are different from yours?
• Now lets combine them using but.
• Who can tell in 2 simple sentences what you want
  to do right after school?
• Now lets combine them using or.

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• Do pg. 128-129 Comp. LA Skills
• Where do the commas belong? Not all sentences
  will need a comma.
• Many folktales feature a trickster.
• (no comma)
• Firefly cheated Ture but Ture tricked the Prince,
• Some fairy tales begin with Once upon a time or
  In a land faraway.
• (after time)

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Day 3Word Analysis

• The spooky spider spun his web.
• What consonant blend do you notice?
• spooky spider spun is an alliteration, which is
  the repetition of beginning sounds in a phrase.
• Do Spelling and Vocab. Pgs. 104-105

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• Write a compound sentence to combine the simple
  sentences using the conjunctions and, but, and
  or.
• Aunt Leona uses a cane. She supports herself
  with it when she walks.
• The fireworks display had started. We did not
  go.
• I left my basketball at Freddies house. I left
  my basketball at the court.