Vocabulary for Leah

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Vocabulary for Leahs Pony
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Word Knowledge Unit 6, Lesson 3

• What do these words have in common?
• fine finer finest good
  better best
• Comparative and superlative forms notice the
  forms of good.

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What do these words have in common?

• swift glistened drooping husky
• Vivid verbs and adjectives.

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What do these words have in common?

• hear here sow so sew buy by
• Homophones, words that sound the same but are
  spelt differently and have different meanings.
• Look at the word sow it is sounded like cow it
  means a female pig, or like grow it means to
  plant seeds for growing.

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What do these words have in common?

• salmon calf half behalf
• Silent letters f lf m lm. You do not hear the
  l.

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What do these words have in common?

• finest taller happier happiest prettier
• Suffix er and-est to compare things
• What is the base or root word?
• Fine, tall, happy, pretty

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• Fluency
• Identify the superlative word.
• Sentence 1 Each day Leah loved to ride her
  pony into town just to hear Mr. B. shout from the
  door of his grocery store, Thats the finest
  pony in the whole county.
• Sentence 2 The pony was strong and swift
  and sturdy, with just a snip of white at the end
  of his soft black nose.
• Sentence 3 Now lets hear some serious
  bids.
• finest
• .

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• Fluency
• Identify the vivid verbs or adjectives.
• Sentence 1 Each day Leah loved to ride her
  pony into town just to hear Mr. B. shout from the
  door of his grocery store, Thats the finest
  pony in the whole county.
• Sentence 2 The pony was strong and swift and
  sturdy, with just a snip of white at the end of
  his soft black nose.
• Sentence 3 Now lets hear some serious
  bids.
• Strong, swift, sturdy, soft,

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• Fluency
• Identify any homophones.
• Sentence 1 Each day Leah loved to ride her
  pony into town just to hear Mr. B. shout from the
  door of his grocery store, Thats the finest
  pony in the whole county.
• Sentence 2 The pony was strong and swift
  and sturdy, with just a snip of white at the end
  of his soft black nose.
• Sentence 3 Now lets hear some serious
  bids.
• Hear, whole

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• Fluency
• Identify words with a suffix.
• Sentence 4 The finest clock in the store
  was taller and prettier than the rest.
• Finest, taller, prettier

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Objective Today we will learn new words so that
we can better understand what we read.
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• Papa taught Leah to place her new saddle right in
  the middle of the back and tighten the girth
  around the belly, just so.
• Grandpa cleaned up the dusty old saddle and
  polished the leather until it looked new.

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A saddle is nouna seat for riding on a
horse
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• Papa taught Leah to place her new saddle right in
  the middle of the back and tighten the girth
  around the belly, just so.
• If the girth is not tight enough, the saddle will
  slip over to one side.

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Girth meansthe measurement around an objectnoun
Look at these pictures that illustrate girth.
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• The whole summer, Leah and her pony crossed
  through cloud-capped cornfields and chased cattle
  through the pasture.
• The cattle grazed in the pasture and drank water
  from the stream.

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A pasture is grassy land where animals eat and
live noun
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• Leah knew what an auction meant.
• The highest bidder buys an item in an auction.

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An auction is nounan event where things are sold
to the person who offers the most money
Look at these examples of auctions.
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• She raced her pony past empty fields lined with
  dry gullies.
• When it rains, water runs through the gullies
  beyond the fields.

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A gully is noun a narrow ditch made by
flowing water
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• Itll plow, plant, fertilize, and even
  cultivate for you.
• The machine helped cultivate the soil for
  planting.

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To cultivate is to prepare the land to grow
crops and plants verb
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Review

• the measurement around an object
• b) a narrow ditch made by flowing water
• c) an event where things are sold to the person
  who offers the most money
• d) a seat for ridding on a horse
• e) grassy land where animals eat and live
• f) to prepare the land to grow crops and plants

• saddle
• girth
• pasture
• gully
• auction
• cultivate

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Spelling pre test get out your white boards

• Dizzier, happier, heavier, hungrier, prettier,
  drowsier, dizziest, drowsiest, happiest,
  hungriest, greater, greatest, finest, taller

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Adverbs can compare action. Add er and est to
most short adverbs. Use more and most with
adverbs ending in -ly

• Jan left earlier than Lee.
• Kim left earliest of all.
• Ben talked more quietly than Josh.
• Ben talked most quietly of all.

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-er and more compare two things usually using the
word than.-est and most compare three or more
things.

• Juanito was more carefully turned the pages of
  the book than Kevin.
• Junaito was the most careful student turning the
  pages of the book in the class.
• Jeffery ran faster than Cody.
• Jeffery was the fastest boy in the classroom.

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practice

• My little baby is the (cute, cuter, cutest) baby
  in the world.
• Josiah is (tall, taller, tallest) than Sandra.
• Teshera is the (fast, faster, fastest) runner in
  third grade.
• Amayas report was (complete, more complete, most
  complete ) than mine.

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• Drawing conclusion helps you understand more of
  what has happened in a story. Ask yourself these
  questions.
• What clues are there?
• What do I already know that helps me draw a a
  conclusion?

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• Annette walked slowly into the garage. She
  had a sad look on her face. She put her fishing
  rod and bait bucket in the corner. She didnt
  know what had gone wrong. Maybe she would catch
  something tomorrow.

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• What is wrong with Annette?
• Where did Annette go in the morning?

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• When her parents told her it was safe,
  Angela opened the window. As she looked out, she
  saw that one of the electricity cables to the
  house was lying on the grass. Here and there
  some broken tree branches also lay on the wet
  lawn. The wind was still blowing strong, but
  the sky was clearing.

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• What happened?
• Why did her parents tell her is was safe?