Toto By: Marietta D. Moskin

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Toto By Marietta D. Moskin
timid
mock
enviously
snare
cunning
Open Court 4th Grade Unit 1 Risks and
Consequences Lesson 2 Toto Melissa Lape Wilson
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timid
Use context clues

• Deep in Africa lived a timid,
• young boy named Suku.

• The new girl in school was too timid to speak in
  class.

timid- shy feeling or showing a lack of courage
(page 32)
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enviously
Use context clues

• Toto watched enviously as the birds sailed off
  into the sky.

• Sam stared enviously at
• Tom on his three wheeler.

enviously- with jealousy (page 36)
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mock
Use context clues

• The young males of the heard fought mock battles
  with each other.

I wore a mock diamond ring because I couldnt
afford a real one.
mock- pretend fake (page 36)
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snare
Use context clues

• The rope of a poachers trap had been
• pulled so tight that the snare had bitten
• deeply into the flesh.

The spiders web is an effective snare.
snare- a trap (page 39)
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cunning
Use context clues

• Suku was angry at the poachers who had
• set their cunning trap so close to the
• game reserve.

The cunning mouse stole the cheese out of the
trap without getting caught.
cunning - tricky (page 40)
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Vocabulary Review

• timid- shy feeling or
• showing a lack of courage
• enviously- with jealousy
• mock- pretend fake
• snare- a trap
• cunning - tricky

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Vocabulary Quiz

• _____shy feeling or showing
• a lack of courage
• _____ with jealousy
• _____ pretend fake
• _____ a trap
• _____ tricky
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  --------------------------------------------------
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cunning
timid
enviously
mock
snare
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These words all have a common root word or base
word.

• protect
• protected
• unprotected

The root word protect means to keep someone or
something from being harmed or hurt.
If we add the suffix ed, -ed tells us this
happened in the past, what does protected mean?
If we add the prefix un-, un- means not, what
does unprotected mean?
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The /ch/ sound is spelled tch preceded by a short
vowel

• patches
• watch
• hutch

What other words have the /ch/ sound spelled tch?

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These words have the suffix ous, which means
full of and is pronounced /u//s/.

• envious
• furious
• mysterious

The suffix ous turns root words into adjectives.
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These words from the story contain the long a
sound spelled a_e, ai_, and _ay.

• midday
• claim
• sailed
• brave
• plains

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Which word in the sentence has a prefix and a
suffix?

• Wildlife is unprotected off the
• game reserve.

unprotected
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Which word in the sentence has the /ch/ sound
spelled tch?

• Suku watched the lion
• inch closer.

watched
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• He was following a mysterious
• path.

Which word in the sentence has the ous suffix?
mysterious
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• People sailed in tall ships in
• the olden days.

The word sailed contains the long a sound spelled
ai_. What other word in the sentence has the long
a sound?
days
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