Brave as a Mountain Lion

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Brave as a Mountain Lion

• Unit 5 Lesson 6
• Day 1
• By, Miss Allen

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Word Knowledge

• 1 brave fearful silent noisy

Antonyms
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Word Knowledge

• 2 climbed spider sighed pie shy

The Long i spellings
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Word Knowledge

• 3 platter stretch spelling
  flashlight
• When two consonant sounds blend together it is
  called a consonant blend.

Consonant Blends
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Word Knowledge

• 4 large huge stage jacket

The /j/ sound
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Word Knowledge

• 5 homework popcorn snowplow peephole
• When two words are stuck together the new word
  is called a compound word.

Compound Words
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Word Knowledge

• 6 packed uncles dropping bravest

Spelling Words
-ed -ing
Present and Past Tense
Plurals
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Word Knowledge

• S1 I have to tie my shoes tightly before I ride
  my bike.
• S2 The platter was overflowing with deer meat.
• S3 Marcus packed a picnic for his eight uncles.

Can you find the words with the long i sound in
Sentence 1?
Can you find the nouns in Sentence 2?
Do you know what the plural form of picnic
is? How else can a plural be formed?
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Build Background

• Remember that we have read a lot of stories in
  this unit about characters being brave.
• What stories have you read about characters that
  were brave?
• The story that we are going to be reading this
  week is about a boy who is afraid but proves that
  he can act brave even when he feels afraid.

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Background Information about Native Americans

• Some Native Americans in the United States live
  on reservations (land set aside for the people of
  their nation).
• The story we are going to be reading is a
  realistic story that includes some cultural
  information about Native Americans and their
  lives todaynot long ago.

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Background Information about Spelling Bees

• Spelling bees are contests that allow good
  spellers to compete against eachother.
• What are the rules?
• Each speller is given a word to spell.
• The word is usually pronounced, used in a
  sentence, and then pronounced again (like our
  spelling tests).
• The speller then says the word, spells the word,
  and then says the word again.
• If the word is spelled correctly, the speller
  stays standing. If the word is misspelled, the
  speller sits down.
• As the bee continues, the words get harder.
• The last one standing is the winner.

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Preview and Prepare

• Look at the title of the story, look at the
  pictures, look at the words.
• Look for any clues problems or wonderings.
• Be ready to share them with the class!

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reservation

• Soon the reservation would be covered with
  darkness.

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reservation

• Soon the reservation would be covered with
  darkness.
• Many Native Americans live on a reservation.

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reservation

• Soon the reservation would be covered with
  darkness.
• Many Native Americans live on a reservation.
• reservation land set aside for Native Americans
  to live on

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reservation

• The boys liked to climb the mountain to look down
  on the reservation.

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drifted

• Any other night he would have been hoping his
  father would reach home before the snow drifted
  too high.

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drifted

• Any other night he would have been hoping his
  father would reach home before the snow drifted
  too high.
• The leaves drifted into a ditch.

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drifted

• Any other night he would have been hoping his
  father would reach home before the snow drifted
  too high.
• The leaves drifted into a ditch.
• drifted piled up because of the wind
• synonyms floated, glided, coasted
• antonyms rushed, hurled

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drifted

• The leaf drifted in the wind.

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dreaded

• Tonight he dreaded his fathers coming.

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dreaded

• Tonight he dreaded his fathers coming.
• I dreaded the test because I was not prepared.

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dreaded

• Tonight he dreaded his fathers coming.
• I dreaded the test because I was not prepared.
• dreaded looked forward to with fear
• synonyms feared, was anxious
• antonyms look forward to,
• anticipate, hope for

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dreaded

• The people dreaded the long wait for their
  doctors appointment.

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qualified

• Dear Parent, I am pleased to inform you that your
  son Spider has qualified for the school spelling
  bee.

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qualified

• Dear Parent, I am pleased to inform you that your
  son Spider has qualified for the school spelling
  bee.
• She qualified for the track team because she
  trained a lot.

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qualified

• Dear Parent, I am pleased to inform you that your
  son Spider has qualified for the school spelling
  bee.
• She qualified for the track team because she
  trained a lot.
• qualified fit or able to do a job or task
• synonyms confident, practiced, experienced
• antonyms untrained, unskilled, incompetent

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qualified

• The swimmer qualified for the Olympics by winning
  the race.

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gymnasium

• At recess the next day Spider peeked into the
  gymnasium.

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gymnasium

• At recess the next day Spider peeked into the
  gymnasium.
• We play basketball in the gymnasium.

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gymnasium

• At recess the next day Spider peeked into the
  gymnasium.
• We play basketball in the gymnasium.
• gymnasium a room or building that has equipment
  for physical exercise or indoor sports
• synonyms gym, fitness center,
• indoor sports club

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gymnasium

• The gymnasium was empty now that all the
  volleyball fans had gone home.

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swirling

• He couldnt see the far mountains for the
  swirling snow.

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swirling

• He couldnt see the far mountains for the
  swirling snow.
• The smoke was swirling up the chimney.

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swirling

• He couldnt see the far mountains for the
  swirling snow.
• The smoke was swirling up the chimney.
• swirling moving around in a twisting motion
• synonyms whirling, twirling, spinning
• antonyms still, static, unmoving

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swirling

• The Northern Lights were swirling in the night
  sky.

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Comprehension Strategies

• Asking Questions
• How? When? Where? Why? Who? What?
• Making Connections
• This part reminds me of
• Making Predictions
• Because _________ happened, I think ________ will
  happen.
• Summarizing
• In my own words
• Monitoring and Clarifying
• I didnt understand that part. Maybe I should
  re-read or ask some questions about it.

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Discussing Strategy Use

• What connections did you make between what you
  were reading and what you already know?
• How did you clarify confusing passages?
• What questions did you ask about confusing words
  or passages?
• Where did you pause in the reading to summarize?
• On what basis did you make and confirm
  predictions?

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Guess the Covered Word

• Spelling Unit 5 Lesson 6
• Created by
• Joanne Whitley
• Adapted by Jen Allen

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Say the word as the arrow points to
it. aunts tapped met whales animal
s
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Say the word as the arrow points to
it. rabbits packed uncles dropping
bravest
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The ladies are my aunts.
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The ladies are my aunts.
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The dancer tapped.
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The dancer tapped.
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The two rivers met here.
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The two rivers met here.
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The swimming mammals are whales.
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The swimming mammals are whales.
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Gnus are animals.
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Gnus are animals.
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Many rabbits burrow.
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Many rabbits burrow.
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The trunk was packed.
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The trunk was packed.
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My uncles came to visit.
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My uncles came to visit.
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The balloon was dropping in the sky.
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The balloon was dropping in the sky.
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Our bravest friend went.
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Our bravest friend went.
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Look at the words quickly. Then we will spell
them together by chanting.
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aunts
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tapped
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met
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whales
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animals
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rabbits
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packed
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uncles
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dropping
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bravest
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Mickey says, You did A-OK!
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Review of Capitalization Rules

• Remember that the following are ALWAYS
  capitalized
• the word I
• proper nouns (nouns that name a particular
  person, place, thing or idea)
• Christopher, Eiffel Tower, Sony, etc.
• peoples titles
• Miss, Dr., Jr., Mrs.
• peoples initials
• J.A.

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Review of Conjunctions

• Remember that a conjunction is a word that
  connects words or ideas in a phrase or sentence
• and
• but
• or

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Review of Interjections

• Remember that an interjection is a word that
  shows feeling and can stand alone as a sentence.
• Ouch!
• Wow!
• No!
• Interjections that show less feeling can be set
  off using a comma.
• No, I dont want to go to the store.

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Review of Commas in a Quotation

• Remember that a comma is used before the
  quotation marks that begin a speakers exact
  words.
• Jessica said, Kittens are my favorite!

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Review of Apostrophes

• Remember that an apostrophe is used when making a
  contraction or a possessive.
• cant
• That is Rogers pencil.

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Review of Colons

• Remember that a colon can be used to separate the
  hour and minutes when writing numbers to write
  the time or to separate a list from the rest of
  the sentence.
• 340 p.m.
• You need the following ingredients to make a
  cake sugar, eggs, flour, and water.

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Brave as a Mountain Lion

• Unit 5 Lesson 6
• Day 2
• By, Miss Allen

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Word Knowledge

• 1 brave fearful silent noisy

Antonyms
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Word Knowledge

• 2 climbed spider sighed pie shy

The Long i spellings
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Word Knowledge

• 3 platter stretch spelling
  flashlight
• When two consonant sounds blend together it is
  called a consonant blend.

Consonant Blends
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Word Knowledge

• 4 large huge stage jacket

The /j/ sound
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Word Knowledge

• 5 homework popcorn snowplow peephole
• When two words are stuck together the new word
  is called a compound word.

Compound Words
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Word Knowledge

• 6 packed uncles dropping bravest

Spelling Words
-ed -ing
Present and Past Tense
Plurals
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Word Knowledge

• S1 I have to tie my shoes tightly before I ride
  my bike.
• S2 The platter was overflowing with deer meat.
• S3 Marcus packed a picnic for his eight uncles.

Can you find the words with the long i sound in
Sentence 1?
Can you find the nouns in Sentence 2?
Do you know what the plural form of picnic
is? How else can a plural be formed?
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Selection Vocabulary

• reservation land set aside by the government or
  Native Americans to live on
• drifted piled up because of the wind
• dreaded looked forward to with fear
• qualified a room or building that has equipment
  for physical exercise or indoor sports
• swirling moving around in a twisting motion

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Vocabulary Game

• Synonyms
• I dreaded going to school because I hadnt
  studied for the test.
• feared
• anticipated
• looked forward to
• The leaves were swirling in the wind.
• still
• twirling
• unmoving

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Vocabulary Game

• Antonyms
• 3. I am qualified for the team because I
  practiced hard.
• a. incompetent
• b. confident
• c. skilled enough
• 4. The snow drifted down gently from the sky.
• a. floated
• b. rushed
• c. twirled

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Vocabulary Game

• Multiple Meanings
• 5. Spider and his family live on the reservation.
• a. The government set aside land for Native
  Americans to live on which is called a
  reservation.
• b. I made the reservation for dinner.
• 6. Spider peeked into the gymnasium.
• a. I am going to work out at the gymnasium.
• b. We watched the basketball game in the
  gymnasium.

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Comprehension Skills

• Authors Purpose
• Authors write stories for many different reasons.
  Knowing why a story was written can help you
  understand the story better.
• A story can be written to entertain, to inform,
  to persuade or to explain
• Turn to pg. 152-153 in your Comprehension and
  Language Arts Skills book and lets practice
• Cause and Effect
• Often something happens that makes something else
  happen in the story.
• Effect What happened
• Cause What made it happen

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Checking Comprehension

• Who gives Spider advice on how to be brave,
  clever, and silent?
• How does being like a mountain lion, a coyote,
  and a spider help Spider in the spelling bee?
• One of the authors purposes for writing this
  story was to give readers some information about
  the Shoshone people. What is an important fact
  that the author includes in the story?

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Lets have a Spelling Bee!!!

• Remember the rules
• Each speller is given a word to spell.
• The word is usually pronounced, used in a
  sentence, and then pronounced again (like our
  spelling tests).
• The speller then says the word, spells the word,
  and then says the word again.
• If the word is spelled correctly, the speller
  stays standing. If the word is misspelled, the
  speller sits down.
• As the bee continues, the words get harder.
• The last one standing is the winner.

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Spelling Changes

• Remember that one-syllable words with short vowel
  sounds that end in one consonant need a spelling
  change to add a suffix.
• drop dropped
• skip skipping
• swim swimming
• Remember that prefix is added to the beginning
  of a word to change the meaning of the word
• read reread

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Review of Capitalization Rules

• Remember that the following are ALWAYS
  capitalized
• the word I
• proper nouns (nouns that name a particular
  person, place, thing or idea)
• Christopher, Eiffel Tower, Sony, etc.
• peoples titles
• Miss, Dr., Jr., Mrs.
• peoples initials
• J.A.

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Practice with Capitalization

• Which words should be capitalized?
• On saturday, i will leave for argentina.
• Does dr. Fox see patients on monday?
• My favorite movie was e.t. The
  Extra-Terrestrial.
• The program said that m. Kwan and t. lipinski
  would be skating that evening.

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Review of Conjunctions and Interjections

• Remember that a conjunction is a word that
  connects words or ideas in a phrase or sentence
• and, but, or
• Remember that an interjection is a word that
  shows feeling and can stand alone as a sentence.
• Ouch! Wow! No!
• Interjections that show less feeling can be set
  off using a comma.
• No, I dont want to go to the store.

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Practice with Conjunctions and Interjections

• Circle the conjunctions and underline the
  interjections.
• Pizza and pasta are Italian words.
• Ugh! Broccoli is also an Italian word.
• Aha! I know that rodeo and pronto are Spanish
  words.

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Brave as a Mountain Lion

• Unit 5 Lesson 6
• Day 3
• By, Miss Allen

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Word Knowledge

• 1 brave fearful silent noisy

Antonyms
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Word Knowledge

• 2 climbed spider sighed pie shy

The Long i spellings
103
Word Knowledge

• 3 platter stretch spelling
  flashlight
• When two consonant sounds blend together it is
  called a consonant blend.

Consonant Blends
104
Word Knowledge

• 4 large huge stage jacket

The /j/ sound
105
Word Knowledge

• 5 homework popcorn snowplow peephole
• When two words are stuck together the new word
  is called a compound word.

Compound Words
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Word Knowledge

• 6 packed uncles dropping bravest

Spelling Words
-ed -ing
Present and Past Tense
Plurals
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Word Knowledge

• S1 I have to tie my shoes tightly before I ride
  my bike.
• S2 The platter was overflowing with deer meat.
• S3 Marcus packed a picnic for his eight uncles.

Can you find the words with the long i sound in
Sentence 1?
Can you find the nouns in Sentence 2?
Do you know what the plural form of picnic
is? How else can a plural be formed?
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Selection Vocabulary

• reservation land set aside by the government or
  Native Americans to live on
• drifted piled up because of the wind
• dreaded looked forward to with fear
• qualified a room or building that has equipment
  for physical exercise or indoor sports
• swirling moving around in a twisting motion

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Characterization

• How do we learn about story characters?
• Reread pages 224-225. Listen for the things that
  Spider thought about when he looked into the gym.
• What do we learn about what Spider thinks is
  brave?
• How did Spider feel when he was looking at the
  stage?
• Lets play a game to practice characterization.

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Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe
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Review of Commas in a Quotation

• Remember that a comma is used before the
  quotation marks that begin a speakers exact
  words.
• Jessica said, Kittens are my favorite!

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Review of Apostrophes

• Remember that an apostrophe is used when making a
  contraction or a possessive.
• cant
• That is Rogers pencil.

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Review of Colons

• Remember that a colon can be used to separate the
  hour and minutes when writing numbers to write
  the time or to separate a list from the rest of
  the sentence.
• 340 p.m.
• You need the following ingredients to make a
  cake sugar, eggs, flour, and water.

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Lets Practice!

• Where should we add commas, apostrophes and
  colons?
• Some of the astronauts who have walked on the
  moon are Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Alan
  Shepard.
• We cant go to Mars yet.
• Carl Sagan said There are billions and billions
  of stars.
• Neil Armstrong said Thats one small step for
  man, one giant leap for mankind.
• The sunrise is at 723 this morning.

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Brave as a Mountain Lion

• Unit 5 Lesson 6
• Day 3
• By, Miss Allen

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Word Knowledge

• 1 brave fearful silent noisy

Antonyms
117
Word Knowledge

• 2 climbed spider sighed pie shy

The Long i spellings
118
Word Knowledge

• 3 platter stretch spelling
  flashlight
• When two consonant sounds blend together it is
  called a consonant blend.

Consonant Blends
119
Word Knowledge

• 4 large huge stage jacket

The /j/ sound
120
Word Knowledge

• 5 homework popcorn snowplow peephole
• When two words are stuck together the new word
  is called a compound word.

Compound Words
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Word Knowledge

• 6 packed uncles dropping bravest

Spelling Words
-ed -ing
Present and Past Tense
Plurals
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Word Knowledge

• S1 I have to tie my shoes tightly before I ride
  my bike.
• S2 The platter was overflowing with deer meat.
• S3 Marcus packed a picnic for his eight uncles.

Can you find the words with the long i sound in
Sentence 1?
Can you find the nouns in Sentence 2?
Do you know what the plural form of picnic
is? How else can a plural be formed?
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The Blue Tie
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grandpa
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grandson
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living
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nothing
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oh
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somewhere
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wasnt
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wheres
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wouldnt
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from
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are
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does
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give
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some
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to
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what
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you
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your
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full
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said
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they
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today
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two
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were
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where
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who
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come
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every
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many
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of
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wants
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have
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there
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into
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was
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one
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ones
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put
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their
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again
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together
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could
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do
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laugh
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laughed
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lives
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want
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would
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pretty
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done
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any
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pulled
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wanted
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laughs
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once
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been
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ones
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theirs
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Selection Vocabulary

• reservation land set aside by the government or
  Native Americans to live on
• drifted piled up because of the wind
• dreaded looked forward to with fear
• qualified a room or building that has equipment
  for physical exercise or indoor sports
• swirling moving around in a twisting motion

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Handing Off

• Why was Spider afraid of being in the spelling
  bee?
• How was Spider able to overcome his fear of being
  in the spelling bee?
• Compare how Spider overcame his fear of the
  spelling bee and how Beth in Molly the Brave and
  Me overcame her fears.
• What was Ping in The Empty Pot afraid of? What
  was Spider afraid of? How were their fears alike
  or different?
• When have you ever been afraid to do something?
  What helped you have courage?
• What does Brave as a Mountain Lion add to what
  you already know about courage?

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Meet the Author

• What people and places do you think Ann Herbert
  Scott had to become familiar with to write Brave
  as a Mountain Lion?
• Why does she picture the scenes in her mind?

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Meet the Illustrator

• How might illustrating Brave as a Mountain Lion
  have been similar to Glo Coalsons first book?
• How did a frends advice influence Glo Coalson?

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Review of Commas in a Quotation

• Remember that a comma is used before the
  quotation marks that begin a speakers exact
  words.
• Jessica said, Kittens are my favorite!

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Review of Apostrophes

• Remember that an apostrophe is used when making a
  contraction or a possessive.
• cant
• That is Rogers pencil.

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Review of Colons

• Remember that a colon can be used to separate the
  hour and minutes when writing numbers to write
  the time or to separate a list from the rest of
  the sentence.
• 340 p.m.
• You need the following ingredients to make a
  cake sugar, eggs, flour, and water.

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Lets Practice!

• Where should we add commas, apostrophes and
  colons?
• Some of the astronauts who have walked on the
  moon are Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Alan
  Shepard.
• We cant go to Mars yet.
• Carl Sagan said There are billions and billions
  of stars.
• Neil Armstrong said Thats one small step for
  man, one giant leap for mankind.
• The sunrise is at 723 this morning.