Lesson 8 Day 4

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Question of the Day

• Have you ever misunderstood a message from someone? Has anyone ever misunderstood a message from you? What happened?

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Read Aloud

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• What is the purpose of reading a story?

• for enjoyment• to practice reading• to learn about a topic

Read Aloud

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Read Aloud

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• What message did Joey think the skunk was communicating?

• What message was the skunk really sending Joey?

Phonics and Spelling• We have been studying words with ou, ow, oi, and oy.• Recognizing these letter patterns can be very helpful in

reading longer words.

• Identify the word with oi. • shower, joyful, couches, avoid

• Avoid is a two syllable word with the emphasis on the second syllable. What sound does oi stand for.

• Identify the word with ou.• Identify the word with ow.• Identify the word with oy.

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Phonics and Spelling• boiling soiled pointed• Recognizing word parts like these can help you read

words. • Find the words with the patterns ou, ow, oi, and oy. • If you put poison around the weeds, it will destroy

the flowers. • My noisy dog enjoys howling at the mountains. • “My towel is wet,” said the Girl Scout in an annoyed

voice. • Roy the Clown was disappointed that the day was

cloudy.

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Phonics and Spelling

Identify the vowel sound and letters that make the sound in each word.

foil, loud, gown, coil, house, annoy, growl, moist, enjoy, round, spoil, mouse, clown, bounce, cowboy

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Fluency

• Good readers use punctuation in each sentence as a signal for when to pause, stop, and change the tone of their voice.

• Quotation marks signal someone’s exact words.• When you read words in quotation marks, you can

change the tone of your voice to signal that someone is speaking.

• Listen as I read page 240 aloud. • Reread page 240 with me.

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Main Idea and Details• What is a main idea?• The most important idea

in a writing. • What are supporting

details? • Information that tells

about the main idea. • What are non-supporting

details?• Information that does not

tell about the main idea.

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Main Idea and Details

• Reread page 237. Working with a partner to answer these questions.

1. What is the main idea?2. What details support the main

idea?3. What details do not support the

main idea?

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Build Robust Vocabulary• Raise your hand if you think this animal might be

charging.• lion, worm, goldfish, bull• If you think an animal might be ferocious at the time

I describe, growl like a ferocious beast. • A bear whose cub is in danger.• One penguin greeting another.• A canary about to sing.• A tiger that is very hungry.

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Build Robust Vocabulary

• Puff up your chest if you think this person is dominant. Shrink down if you think the person does not sound dominant.

• I always finish last.• I can run faster than anyone. • I will do this better than you. • I’m the world’s best baseball player.

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Build Robust Vocabulary

• How would you communicate with someone who lives far away.

• If you flick your head from side to side, how fast are you moving it?

• If someone were in danger from a fast-moving car, how could you alert the person?

• How can you signal someone to be quiet? • What is a topic that people might chatter

about? • What do people do when they groom

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DOL

• doctor Andrea j tanaka

• thurs,oct 30

• mrs Willa c nguyen

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Grammar

• Most abbreviations begin with a capital letter and end with a period.

• However, state abbreviations have two capital letters and no punctuation. FL, TX, CA, AL

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GrammarWhich words can be abbreviated in this address?

Steele Junior High School105 McHugh Street

Steele, Alabama 35987

Jr. St. AL

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Writing

• Today you will write detail sentences. These sentences need to support or tell about the main idea.

• The words you choose to use in your writings should paint a clear mental picture of an animal.

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WritingA Description

• Uses vivid words that appeal to the senses. • Uses precise words that give specific information about the

topic.• Uses different types of language.• Includes a main idea for each paragraph.• Includes detail sentences that tell about the main idea of each

paragraph.

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