Fourth Grade:

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Fourth Grade Theme 1 Selection 1 This Land is
Your Land
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VC CV Pattern

• Vowels usually have the short sound when they are
  followed by two consonants.
• Locate the first two vowels and place a dot
  underneath the vowels.
• Underline the consonants between the vowels.
• sud den
• fin ger
• in tend
• hap pen

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VC CV Word
ad mire admire
mag net magnet
ral ly rally
fab ric fabric
flat ten flatten
ras cal rascal
mam mal mammal
can non cannon
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VC CV Word
en gine engine
fin ger finger
mit ten mitten
in tend intend
con test contest
soc cer soccer
cus tom custom
sud den sudden
gut ter gutter
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Challenge Words
magnify festival injury dungeon
thunderstorm accident method
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
admire
rally
magnet
soccer
contest
engine

method
sudden
custom
finger
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
accident
rascal
mitten
gutter
intend
mammal

fabric
happen
flatten
cannon
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
magnify
festival
injury

dungeon
thunderstorm
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• Teacher Read Aloud
• Child of the Silent Night
• by Edith Fisher Hunter
• Activate Prior Knowledge
• Remember a time when you were about five years
  old.
• Talk about what it would have been like to try
  to learn a task, like tying your shoes, without
  being able to hear, see, or speak.

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• Purpose Setting
• Listen for the sequence of events that bring a
  little girl and an older neighbor together as
  friends.
• This story tells about a little girl who has
  an illness that leaves her unable to see, hear,
  or speak. A kindly neighbor believes in the
  little girl and tries to teach her.
• When did Lauras parents realize Laura had lost
  her sight and hearing?
• What were the steps in Lauras recovery.
  Describe them in order.

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Build Concept Vocabulary But he knew that she
wanted kindness and attention and love.
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Build Concept Vocabulary Somehow, I must get
behind the cloth band that she wears over her
eyes and bring the light of understanding to her.
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Concept Vocabulary Web
Diversity
What all people need
What new friends can offer
understanding
kindness
attention
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• Comprehension Skill
• Sequence of Events
• Events in a story occur in a certain order, or
  sequence. The sequence of events can be
  important to understanding a story.
• Sometimes events in a story are told out of
  sequence. Something that happened earlier might
  be told after something that happened later.

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Strategy Summarize Good readers
summarize. As they read, they pause to sum up
the important ideas or events. This helps them
remember the information. As you read a story,
note the main events. After you read, ask
yourself what the main events were and in what
order they occurred.
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• Going Batty
• Summarize
• 1. Which grade is mentioned first in the story?
  Why do you suppose it is not the first event on
  your graphic organizer?
• What time word clues tell you that Mr. Egan is
  going to tell about events that happened earlier
  in the day?
• See if you can summarize what Mr. Egan told the
  fourth graders. Be sure to give the events in
  order.

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Because of Winn-Dixie
Author Kate DiCamillo
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Genre Realistic Fiction

• Characters are like people in real life.
• Events are like events in real life.

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Naomi is a fictional city in Florida in the
story, Winn-Dixie.
Florida is a state in the southeastern part of
the United States of America.
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More Books Written by Kate DiCamillo
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the events in a story that occur in a certain
order
sequence
The sequence of events can be important to
understanding a story.
Synonyms chain progression




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helping people to remember a person, thing, or
event
memorial
The Herman W. Block Memorial Library was built
by Miss Frannys father.
Synonyms statue record




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overly proud of oneself
prideful
I dont want to appear prideful, she said, but
my daddy was a very rich man.
Synonyms boastful conceited snobbish




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call back to mind remembers
recalls
Im the only one who recalls that bear!

Synonyms remembers cites retains




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strange, unusual
peculiar
Synonyms uncommon strange weird
But then I became aware of a very peculiar smell,
a very strong smell.


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excellent very good
grand
Why, that would be grand, she said, just
grand.



Synonym magnificent glorious marvelous

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without doubt sure
positive
Yes maam, I told her. Im positive. Hes my
dog. I would know him anywhere.



Synonym definite certain absolute

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picking out choosing
selecting
I was selecting a book from the library.
Synonym marking tagging taking




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Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the
Words?
grand
memorial
positive
prideful

selecting
recalls
peculiar
sequence
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
grand memorial peculiar positive
prideful recalls selecting sequence
Draw! Draw! Draw!
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• Free Association
• When I say a word, you write down any words you
  can think of that remind you of that word.
• For example
• The word is school
• learning
• Science
• pencils
• Reading
• Math
• teachers
• P.E.
• Education

1. grand
2. memorial
3. peculiar
4. positive
5. prideful
6. recalls
7. selecting
8. sequence
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• Classifying
• Place the following words in categories
• grand memorial
  peculiar
• positive prideful recalls
• selecting sequence
• Decide the names of the categories.
• Determine how many categories.
• Determine which words go in which categories.
• After classifying the words, write a paragraph
  explaining each of the categories and why
  certain words go in a particular category.

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Can You Find the Context Clues?
1. Dad often _______ the fried pies that Grandma
use to make.
2. Grandpa was _________ he couldnt get along by
himself.
3. Grandma was ____________ about her fried pies
winning a blue ribbon.
4. ______________ a flavor is so hard because
they offer so many choices.
5. Many people support putting up a
___________ for all the deer killed
crossing highways.
6. Besides the armadillo, another ________
animal is the porcupine, with its unusual
quills.
7. Grandpa was so shaken up after the
accident that he couldnt remember the
exact ___________ of events that led up to the
accident.
8. One of the most amazing habitats in North
America is the _______ Florida
Everglades.
grand positive selecting memorial prideful
sequence peculiar recalls
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Synonym Search Match the vocabulary words on the
left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some
vocabulary words have more than one synonym.
Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grand
a. tagging f. statue k. conceited p. glorious
b. uncommon g. marking l. certain q. taking
c. boastful h. strange m. marvelous r. remembers
d. tagging i. magnificent n. weird s. progression
e. definite j. chain o. retains t. record
positive
selecting
memorial
prideful
sequence
peculiar
recalls
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Word Association Challenge

1. Which word goes with building a house? Why?

2. Which word goes with buying ice cream? Why?
3. Which word goes with the Liberty Bell? Why?
4. Which word goes with hitting a homerun? Why?
5. Which word goes with a hairless dog? Why?
6. Which word goes with planning a trip to Disney
World? Why?
7. Which word goes with automatic? Why?
8. Which word goes with retelling a story? Why?
Word Bank grand
positive selecting memorial prideful
sequence peculiar recalls
Some words can be used more than once. Can you figure out which ones?

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Tell Me What You Know

• List and describe animals that could be
  considered peculiar.
• 2. Describe an experience that you feel very
  positive about.
• 3. Describe how you go about selecting an outfit
  to wear.
• 4. Describe the situation where you can recall
  someone acting very prideful.
• 5. Sequence how you would build a tree house.
• 6. List people, places or things that you
  consider grand and tell why.
• 7. Name a memorial that you would like to visit
  and tell why.