Parmele

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Parmele
Open Court- Fifth Grade Unit 3- Heritage Lesson
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• by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little

Word Knowledge Selection Vocabulary
A Presentation by Tan Doan- Fruitvale School-
Oakland
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gas station rocking chair soda pop parking
lot
Open Compound Words
The man at the gas station wore leather glove.
Please give some examples of open compound words.
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read can found like
Homographs
I like ice cream just like you do.
Can you think of some more homographs?
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ready leather breakfast bread
/e/ sound spelled ea
Were ready for breakfast.
Please give some more words with /e/ sound
spelled ea.
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ankles porches stroke thumb around
final -le, /or/ sound, consonant blends,
silent letters, and /ow/ sound
Half of the players on a football team could have

tape wrapped around their sprained ankles.
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Selection Vocabulary
Use Context Clues, Word Structure, and
Apposition to figure out the meaning of the word
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collards
patchwork quilts
sharecropper
commence
hovering
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collards
- I remember her most bending over the collards
in her garden or feeding the chickens.
- The first step in preparing the collards for
supper was washing all the leaves clean of dirt
and insects.
green, leafy vegetable
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patchwork quilts
- She used to sew leftover material from
my dresses into her patchwork quilts.
- My grandmother used pieces of colored cloth
to make a patchwork quilt for my bed.
It kept me warm at night all winter.
blankets made from scraps of material sewn toget
her
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sharecropper
- Pa was a sharecropper.
- Being a sharecropper would take a lot of hard
work.
a farmer who gives part of his or her crop as
rent to the owner of the land
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commence
One night, hed say, me and my brother John
was coming cross that field over yonder... and
we commence to hearing this strange sound.
The coach announced that practice would commence
in five minutes. We should all be on the field
and ready to go.
begin
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hovering
- Hed twist his face and narrow his eyes in
horror as he stared into the darkness, and I
could just feel all those haints hovering behind
us, daring us to turn around and run for the
door.
- First I heard the sound of bees buzzing. Then I
saw a swarm of them hovering over my brothers
head.
staying in the same position in the air without
moving forward or backward
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Vocabulary Quiz
01. staying in the same position in the air
without moving forward or backward
02. green, leafy vegetable
03. a farmer who gives part of his or her
crop as rent to the owner of the land
04. blankets made from scraps of material sewn
together
05. begin