Unit 4: Lesson 5 Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

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Unit 4 Lesson 5Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

• A tall tale by,
• Eric A. Kimmel

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Today we will be learning about

• Compound words
• Suffixes ed, -ing, -ial
• Plural endings s, -es
• Authors point of view
• Drawing conclusions
• Colloquial speech
• Subject/verb agreement

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 1 blacksmith graveyard fireworks tombstone
  buckboard
• (they are all compound words)

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 2clenched lugged growled owed leaned
• (all of the words have the suffix ed. This
  indicates that the action has taken place in the
  past)
• Line 3bury burying buried burial
• (all of these words have the base word bury. How
  did the spelling change after the suffixes were
  added?)

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 4dollars horses sleeves cowboys britches
• (These are words from our story this week. They
  review how to make words plural by adding the
  suffixes s and es.)

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What do these sentences have in common?

• S1 Im driving out to the Circe K this
  afternoon.
• S2 As soon as Oscar left, Widow Macrae hitched
  her two horses, Clementine and Evangeline, to the
  buckboard and drove out to the Circle K.
• S3One lit a lantern while the other two lugged
  an iron strongbox over to the open grave.
• These are from the story. Can you find any
  compound words, or words with suffixes ed and
  ing?
• S4Cowboys used to wear leather britches when
  riding on their horses.
• Can you find any plural words in sentence 4?

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Have you ever..

• Borrowed money from someone? If so, how did you
  feel about it?
• Paid money back?
• Loaned money to someone? Did they pay you back?

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Build Background

• We can buy things without paying for them
  immediately. We do this by agreeing to pay for it
  at a later time. This is called buying on credit.
  Today people use credit cards to buy things they
  want.
• Genretall tale
• A tall tale uses humorous exaggeration to tell of
  adventures of a fictional character.
• It builds upon improbable incidents and unusual
  problems that are solved in creative ways.

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Build Background

• This story takes place in the Old West. When we
  refer to the Old West, we often mean the part of
  the United States west of the Mississippi River,
  during the years 1840-1890. This story refers to
  some things that were used in the Old West.

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Build Background

• A skillet is a frying pan.
• A buckboard is an open carriage pulled by horses.
• To rein in means to stop your horse.
• Mosey means to walk slowly.
• Greenbacks was a word for paper money.

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Preview and Prepare

• Lets browse through our tall tale Four Dollars
  and Fifty Cents and look for clues about the
  story, problems you may have while reading the
  story, and wonderings you have about the story.

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Student observations

• Clues problems wonderings

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Selection Vocabulary

• He owed everybody money, from Big Oscar the
  blacksmith to Widow Macrae, who ran the Silver
  Dollar Café and baked the best biscuits west of
  the Rockies.
• MY grandpa told me that he used to get shoes for
  his workhorse from a blacksmith.
• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron,
  which is heated and then hammered to the desired
  shape.

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Selection Vocabulary

• You got as much chance of collecting that money
  as seeing Custer ride back from the Little
  Bighorn.
• The paperboy is collecting money for last months
  newspaper.
• Collecting-getting payment for a debt.

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Selection Vocabulary

• But if you let me take Shorty back to town, Ill
  see he gets a decent burial.
• Telling him that I was sorry for being rude was
  the only decent thing to do.
• Decent-proper respectable acceptable to the
  community

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Selection Vocabulary

• Ill nail the lid down, Duck Pooley
  volunteered.
• Half the class volunteered at the local animal
  shelter.
• Volunteered-offered to do something

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Selection Vocabulary

• Shorty saw stars when the coffin hit the ground,
  but he was bound and determined not to pay that
  four dollars and fifty cents, so he lay still.
• Even though the snow was cold and wet, the little
  boy was determined to keep sledding.
• Determined-firm and unwilling to change
  stubbornly continuing as planned.

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Match the words with the definition

• Decent
• Volunteered
• Blacksmith
• Collecting
• determined

• A person who makes objects from iron, which is
  heated and then hammered to the desired shape
• Properrespectable
• acceptable to the community
• Firm and unwilling to change stubbornly
  continuing as planned
• Getting payment for a debt
• Offered to do

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• Persuasive Essay Separate Schools
• Should boys and girls go to separate schools, or
  should they go to the same school? Decide what
  you think. Then persuade others to agree with you.

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Word analysis

• Spelling pretest
• Take out your whiteboards!berries, bunnies,
  guppies, hobbies, pennies, puppies, ponies,
  babies, donkeys, families, dollars, horses,
  sleeves, cowboys, britches

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Grammar subject/verb agreementsingular and
plural

• If the subject is singular, the present tense
  form of the verb usually ends in s or es.
• For example He saves his money.
• If the subject is plural, do not add anything to
  the verb to form the present tense.
• For example They invest money.
• If the verb ends with a consonant and y, change
  the y to I and add es to create the present
  tense.
• For example hurry es hurries
• In the present tense the irregular verbs be and
  have change to form to agree with their subjects.
• For example Danny is responsible.
• Friends are good to have.

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Possessive pronouns

• Do these sentences have subject/verb agreement?
• He take a nap at noon.
• Lydia has a computer.
• They was flying over New York.
• If you want more practice take a look at page 265
  in the Language Arts Handbook.
• Lets do page 112-113 in our Comprehension and
  Language Arts Skills book

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Day 2Today we will be learning about

• Compound words
• Suffixes ed, -ing, -ial
• Plural endings s, -es
• Authors point of view
• Drawing conclusions
• Colloquial speech
• Subject/verb agreement

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Day 2 Developing Oral Language

• Line 1 blacksmith graveyard fireworks tombstone
  buckboard
• (they are all compound words)
• With your partner, can you make compound words
  out of these
• Cow, hand, girl, hand, girl, stage, coach, fire,
  works

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Day 2 Developing Oral Language

• Line 2clenched lugged growled owed leaned
• Line 3bury burying buried burial
• With your partner try to make up a sentence using
  as many of these words as possible.

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Have you ever..

• Borrowed money from someone? If so, how did you
  feel about it?
• Paid money back?
• Loaned money to someone? Did they pay you back?

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Build Background

• We can buy things without paying for them
  immediately. We do this by agreeing to pay for it
  at a later time. This is called buying on credit.
  Today people use credit cards to buy things they
  want.
• Genretall tale
• A tall tale uses humorous exaggeration to tell of
  adventures of a fictional character.
• It builds upon improbable incidents and unusual
  problems that are solved in creative ways.

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Build Background

• This story takes place in the Old West. When we
  refer to the Old West, we often mean the part of
  the United States west of the Mississippi River,
  during the years 1840-1890. This story refers to
  some things that were used in the Old West.

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Build Background

• A skillet is a frying pan.
• A buckboard is an open carriage pulled by horses.
• To rein in means to stop your horse.
• Mosey means to walk slowly.
• Greenbacks was a word for paper money.

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Preview and Prepare

• Lets browse through our tall tale Four Dollars
  and Fifty Cents and look for clues about the
  story, problems you may have while reading the
  story, and wonderings you have about the story.

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Student observations

• Clues problems wonderings

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Selection Vocabulary

• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron,
  which is heated and then hammered to the desired
  shape.
• Collecting-getting payment for a debt.

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Selection Vocabulary

• Decent-proper respectable acceptable to the
  community
• Volunteered-offered to do something

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Selection Vocabulary

• Determined-firm and unwilling to change
  stubbornly continuing as planned.

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Match the words with the definition

• Decent
• Volunteered
• Blacksmith
• Collecting
• determined

• A person who makes objects from iron, which is
  heated and then hammered to the desired shape
• Properrespectable
• acceptable to the community
• Firm and unwilling to change stubbornly
  continuing as planned
• Getting payment for a debt
• Offered to do

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When I read I will

• Predict which will make me analyze and think
  about information given about events and
  characters and how they may logically connect to
  the storys ending.
• Summarize which will help me keep track of what I
  am reading and will help me focus on whats
  important.
• Monitor and clarify by using context clues,
  graphic organizers, outside resources, or
  rereading.
• Make Connections by connecting what I already
  know or have experienced to what I am reading.

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Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

• Pages 58-63
• Tall tale-uses humorous exaggeration to tell an
  adventure. Unusual problems are solved in
  creative ways.
• We will predict,monitor and clarify,make
  connections and summarize
• Vocabularydecent, blacksmith, volunteer,
  collecting, determined

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Discussing strategy use

• What connections did you make between what you
  read and what you already knew?
• How did you clarify confusing passages?
• Where did you stop to summarize?
• How did you make, confirm, and revise
  predictions?

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Discussing the Selection

• Why did Shorty behave as he did?
• What does this story teach about lending and
  borrowing?
• Why was this selection named Four Dollars and
  Fifty Cents?

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Day 2 Word Analysis

• Spellingadding s or es
• Baby
• Plural means more than one.
• When a word ends in y change the y to an I and
  es to make it a plural word.
• If the word ends in vowel y, and an s.
• Donkeydonkeys

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Vocabularycompound words

• Sagebrush is a compound word (sagebrush)
• Sagebrush means a wise person, an herb, or plant
  with silver leaves and yellow flowers.
• Please complete page 90-91 in your spelling and
  vocabulary skills book.

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Day 2possessive pronouns

• LA Handbook pg. 264
• Many inventions helps people.
• The inventor work all day.
• Joseph makes invention in his garage.
• Thomas Edisons inventions is numerous.
• I have my tonsils removed.
• The houses is falling down.

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Day 3Today we will be learning about

• Compound words
• Suffixes ed, -ing, -ial
• Plural endings s, -es
• Authors point of view
• Drawing conclusions
• Colloquial speech
• Subject/verb agreement

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 1 blacksmith graveyard fireworks tombstone
  buckboard
• (they are all compound words)

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 2clenched lugged growled owed leaned
• (all of the words have the suffix ed. This
  indicates that the action has taken place in the
  past)
• Line 3bury burying buried burial
• (all of these words have the base word bury. How
  did the spelling change after the suffixes were
  added?)

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 4dollars horses sleeves cowboys britches
• (These are words from our story this week. They
  review how to make words plural by adding the
  suffixes s and es.)

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What do these sentences have in common?

• S1 Im driving out to the Circe K this
  afternoon.
• S2 As soon as Oscar left, Widow Macrae hitched
  her two horses, Clementine and Evangeline, to the
  buckboard and drove out to the Circle K.
• S3One lit a lantern while the other two lugged
  an iron strongbox over to the open grave.
• These are from the story. Can you find any
  compound words, or words with suffixes ed and
  ing?
• S4Cowboys used to wear leather britches when
  riding on their horses.
• Can you find any plural words in sentence 4?

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Build Background

• We can buy things without paying for them
  immediately. We do this by agreeing to pay for it
  at a later time. This is called buying on credit.
  Today people use credit cards to buy things they
  want.
• Genretall tale
• A tall tale uses humorous exaggeration to tell of
  adventures of a fictional character.
• It builds upon improbable incidents and unusual
  problems that are solved in creative ways.

49
Build Background

• This story takes place in the Old West. When we
  refer to the Old West, we often mean the part of
  the United States west of the Mississippi River,
  during the years 1840-1890. This story refers to
  some things that were used in the Old West.

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Build Background

• A skillet is a frying pan.
• A buckboard is an open carriage pulled by horses.
• To rein in means to stop your horse.
• Mosey means to walk slowly.
• Greenbacks was a word for paper money.

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Preview and Prepare

• Lets browse through our tall tale Four Dollars
  and Fifty Cents and look for clues about the
  story, problems you may have while reading the
  story, and wonderings you have about the story.

52
Student observations

• Clues problems wonderings

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Selection Vocabulary

• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron,
  which is heated and then hammered to the desired
  shape.
• Collecting-getting payment for a debt.

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Selection Vocabulary

• Decent-proper respectable acceptable to the
  community
• Volunteered-offered to do something

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Selection Vocabulary

• Determined-firm and unwilling to change
  stubbornly continuing as planned.

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Student observations

• Problems clues wonderings

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When I read I will

• Draw conclusions by using what I already know,
  together with what I know about the characters
  and events, to understand the total picture in a
  story.
• Look for the Authors point of view to determine
  the perspective from which an author presents the
  actions and events in the story, generally either
  first- person or third-person.

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Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

• Pages 58-63
• Tall tale-uses humorous exaggeration to tell an
  adventure. Unusual problems are solved in
  creative ways.
• We will predict,monitor and clarify,make
  connections and summarize
• Vocabularydecent, blacksmith, volunteer,
  collecting, determined

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Checking Comprehension

• Why is t his story called Four Dollars and Fifty
  Cents?
• What are some ways that the writer makes this
  story funny?
• What does this story reveal about money?

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Supporting the reading

• Monitoring and clarifying
• To clarify the meaning of
• Words, you can use context
• Clues, or outside resources.
• To clarify difficult ideas or
• Passages, you must first
• Recognize that some part
• of the text does not make
• Sense by monitoring your
• Own comprehension. If you have
• A problem you can reread, use
• A graphic organizer, or
• Another comprehension strategy.

problems Method of clarifying

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Day 3Word Analysis

• Horses, britches
• Has anyone ever heard the expresson Hold your
  Horses?
• This is called an idiom. It is not literal.
• Can you think of any more idioms?

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vocabulary compound words

• Blacksmith
• The words blacksmith blacksmith
• Black comes from the hot black coals that heat
  and shape iron.
• Smith means one who works with metal.
• Knowing this, what does a blacksmith do for a
  living?

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Possessive pronouns

• Lets review check out pages 112-113 in your
  Comprehension and Language Arts book
• Please write a sentence using these words on your
  whiteboards.
• Buy,buys
• Is,are
• Has, have
• Wish, wishes
• Was, were

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Day 4Today we will be learning about

• Compound words
• Suffixes ed, -ing, -ial
• Plural endings s, -es
• Authors point of view
• Drawing conclusions
• Colloquial speech
• Subject/verb agreement

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Day 4 Developing Oral Language

• Line 1 blacksmith graveyard fireworks tombstone
  buckboard
• (they are all compound words)
• With your partner, can you make compound words
  out of these
• Cow, hand, girl, hand, girl, stage, coach, fire,
  works

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Day 4 Developing Oral Language

• Line 2clenched lugged growled owed leaned
• Line 3bury burying buried burial
• With your partner try to make up a sentence using
  as many of these words as possible.

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Viewing fine art

• Page 56
• 80 two-dollar bills
• By Andy Warhol
• The same image is
• Reproduced several
• Times.

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Selection Vocabulary

• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron,
  which is heated and then hammered to the desired
  shape.
• Collecting-getting payment for a debt.

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Selection Vocabulary

• Decent-proper respectable acceptable to the
  community
• Volunteered-offered to do something

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Selection Vocabulary

• Determined-firm and unwilling to change
  stubbornly continuing as planned.

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Match the words with the definition

• Decent
• Volunteered
• Blacksmith
• Collecting
• determined

• A person who makes objects from iron, which is
  heated and then hammered to the desired shape
• Properrespectable
• acceptable to the community
• Firm and unwilling to change stubbornly
  continuing as planned
• Getting payment for a debt
• Offered to do

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When I read I will

• Predict which will make me analyze and think
  about information given about events and
  characters and how they may logically connect to
  the storys ending.
• Summarize which will help me keep track of what I
  am reading and will help me focus on whats
  important.
• Monitor and clarify by using context clues,
  graphic organizers, outside resources, or
  rereading.
• Make Connections by connecting what I already
  know or have experienced to what I am reading.

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Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

• Pages 58-63
• Tall tale-uses humorous exaggeration to tell an
  adventure. Unusual problems are solved in
  creative ways.
• We will predict,monitor and clarify,make
  connections and summarize
• Vocabularydecent, blacksmith, volunteer,
  collecting, determined

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Lets practice our vocabulary

• Remember to use the definition in your glossary
  and to add the part of speech.

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Theme Connection

• Work with your partner and try your best.
• Remember there is no wrong answer.
• When you finish, choose one to practice and share
  with the class

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Literary Elementscolloquial speech

• Colloquial speech is a particular way in which
  people speak.
• Most people do not use standard English all the
  time.
• Every region has its own colloquial speech.
• Time periods also have their own colloquial
  speech.
• Lets see if we can find some colloquial speech
  in our selection together.

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Math ConnectionThe Interest Game I

• Shorty owed 4.50. If Widow Macrae charged five
  cents a day for every day he kept the loan, how
  much interest would have accumulated after one
  week?

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Social Studies Connection

• In our selection we read about a cowboy that did
  not want to pay back the money he borrowed.
• What do you think about his actions?
• Was it wrong for him not to pay back his debts?
• Did he respect Widow Macraes rights?
• What laws do we have to protect lenders and
  borrowers?

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spelling

• Spelling and vocabulary pages help us become
  better spellers of plural words.
• Please do page 92 to practice your skills

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Day 4vocabularycompound words

• padlock
• What is a lock? What is a pad?
• What might padlock mean?

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Conversations

• When Shorty did not pay back his debts he
  inconvenienced a lot of people who depended on
  his money. He made people mad at him, and he had
  to waste a lot of time and energy to avoid
  people.
• With your group discuss a time you let someone
  borrow something.
• What happened?
• Did you get it back?

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• Today we will review
• Compound words
• Suffixes ed, -ing, -ial
• Plural endings s, -es
• Authors point of view
• Drawing conclusions
• Colloquial speech
• Subject/verb agreement

• And we will test
• Our comprehension of the tall tale we read
• Our selections vocabulary

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 1 blacksmith graveyard fireworks tombstone
  buckboard
• (they are all compound words)

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What do these words have in common?

• Line 2clenched lugged growled owed leaned
• (all of the words have the suffix ed. This
  indicates that the action has taken place in the
  past)
• Line 3bury burying buried burial
• (all of these words have the base word bury. How
  did the spelling change after the suffixes were
  added?)

85
What do these words have in common?

• Line 4dollars horses sleeves cowboys britches
• (These are words from our story this week. They
  review how to make words plural by adding the
  suffixes s and es.)

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Selection Vocabulary

• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron,
  which is heated and then hammered to the desired
  shape.
• Collecting-getting payment for a debt.

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Selection Vocabulary

• Decent-proper respectable acceptable to the
  community
• Volunteered-offered to do something

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Selection Vocabulary

• Determined-firm and unwilling to change
  stubbornly continuing as planned.

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Match the words with the definition

• Decent
• Volunteered
• Blacksmith
• Collecting
• determined

• A person who makes objects from iron, which is
  heated and then hammered to the desired shape
• Properrespectable
• acceptable to the community
• Firm and unwilling to change stubbornly
  continuing as planned
• Getting payment for a debt
• Offered to do

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When we read we

• Drew conclusions by using what we already knew,
  with what we knew about the characters and
  events, to understand the total picture in a
  story.
• Looked for the Authors point of view to
  determine the perspective from which an author
  presented the actions and events in the story,
  generally either first- person or third-person.

91
Checking Comprehension

• Why is t his story called Four Dollars and Fifty
  Cents?
• What are some ways that the writer makes this
  story funny?
• What does this story reveal about money?

92
Supporting the reading

• Monitoring and clarifying
• To clarify the meaning of
• Words, you can use context
• Clues, or outside resources.
• To clarify difficult ideas or
• Passages, you must first
• Recognize that some part
• of the text does not make
• Sense by monitoring your
• Own comprehension. If you have
• A problem you can reread, use
• A graphic organizer, or
• Another comprehension strategy.

problems Method of clarifying

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Lets test our vocabulary and reading
comprehension
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Cursive letters u and y

• U
• Starting point, loop
• Curve straight forward, slant into undercurve
• Slant down, undercurve

• Y
• Starting point, loop
• Curve forward, slant down
• Undercurve, slant down
• Loop back, overcurve