Title: Elena’s Serenade Author: Campbell Geeslin Illustrator: Ana Juan Genre: Fantasy

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VOCABULARY WORDS

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burro bursts factory glassblower puff reply tune MORE WORDS TO KNOW

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serenade shriek discouraged instruments mellow

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Question of the Day When are you free to follow your dreams?

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Build Concepts Generalize Predict Build Background Vocabulary Fluency: Model Characterization Grammar: Quotations Spelling: Related Words Freedom to Create

Fluency: Model Characterization

    Listen as I read “Manuelo the Playing Mantis” to you. While I read, notice how I use different voices for each character. The size of the animal character influences the voice I use.

Also, their words and actions, which show their personality, can influence the tone of voice that I choose to use.

Be ready to answer questions after the story .

  What generalization can you make about Debby?

What generalization can you make about Manuelo?

Feelings

Freedom to Create

Description of End Result

Turn to page 380 - 381

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Word

burro bursts factory glassblower puff reply tune serenade shriek

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burro

loads – a donkey, used to carry bursts suddenly – breaks open or opens

factory

– a building or group of buildings where people and machines make things

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glassblower

– person who shapes glass objects by blowing air from the mouth through a tube into a blob of hot liquid glass at the other end of the tube puff – to swell up reply – to answer someone by words or actions tune – a piece of music; melody

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serenade – music played to someone outside at night shriek – to make a loud, sharp, shrill sound discouraged – feeling less hopeful about something

instruments

– devices for producing musical sounds mellow harsh

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– soft and rich; not

Grammar: Quotations

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tina and me enjoy the naturel world in the desert Tina and I enjoy the natural world in the desert.

tina said “i thouht I saw a snake Tina said, “I thought I saw a snake.”

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“Let me hear you,” I say.

This is a quotation. The

quotation marks indicate

the speaker’s exact words.

A comma separates the speaker’s words from the rest of the sentence.

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Quotation marks

conversation.

“ ” show the exact words of a speaker in a Use a

comma

to separate the speaker’s exact words from the rest of the sentence.

Use a

capital letter

to begin the first word inside the quotation marks.

Put the marks.

punctuation mark

that ends the quotation inside the quotation

   “I want to be a glassblower,” said Elena.

“Is that a hard job?” I asked.

She replied, “You need good lungs.”

  Quotation marks also indicate many kinds of titles, such as song, poem, and story titles.

Elena played “Burro Serenade.”

    There are different ways to make glass into objects Ben said.

“There are different ways to make glass into objects,” Ben said.

You can blow the hot glass with a blowpipe Kit said “You can blow the hot glass with a blowpipe,” Kit said.

    Taylor said you can press the glass into a mold.

Taylor said, “You can press the glass into a mold.” Kevin added you can pour hot glass into a mold.

Kevin added, “You can pour hot glass into a mold.”

    You can make many useful and pretty things with glass Sara exclaimed.

“You can make many useful and pretty things with glass,” Sara exclaimed.

Mr. Parker said you can make beautiful vases Mr. Parker said, “You can make beautiful vases.”

  I asked are some lamps made of glass?

I asked, “Are some lamps made of glass?”

Spelling: Related Words

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Question of the Day What effect does Elena’s music have on the animals she meets?

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Context Clues Generalize Predict Main Idea Vocabulary Fluency: Readers’ Theater Grammar: Quotations Spelling: Related Words Time for Social Studies: Location Skills Women in the Workforce Freedom to Create

Fluency: Readers’ Theater

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Turn to page 387.

As I read, notice characterization.

Practice doing reader’s theater readings of page 387 in groups of three: a narrator, Pedro, and Elena.

Turn to page 382 .

Turn to page 384-393 .

Grammar: Quotations

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doesnt the warm sun in the desert feel pleasent Doesn’t the warm sun in the desert feel pleasant?

the desert animels rests during the day The desert animals rest during the day.

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quotation

shows the exact words of a speaker in a conversation.

Use a

comma

to separate the speaker’s exact words from the rest of the sentence.

Use a

capital letter

to begin the first word inside the quotation marks.

Put the marks.

punctuation mark

that ends the sentence inside the quotation

Spelling: Related Words

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Question of the Day How does Elena’s music create and guide the swallow that takes her home?

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Generalize Predict Context Clues Main Idea Vocabulary Fluency: Model Characterization Grammar: Quotations Spelling: Related Words Time for Social Studies: Glassblowing Freedom to Create

Fluency: Characterization

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Turn to page 389.

As I read, notice how my voice changes as I read the dialogue.

Practice reading the dialogue on this page with a partner, taking turns being Elena and Burro.

Turn to page 394 - 401 .

Grammar: Quotations

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roadrunners are birds and they usual live in the desert Roadrunners are birds, and they usually live in the desert.

joe said, Roadrunners are abel to run 15 miles per hour”.

Joe said, “Roadrunners are able to run 15 miles per hour.”

   Using quotations that show exactly what people said makes stories and articles more vivid and interesting.

Interesting: The little girl said she wanted to be a glassblower.

More Interesting

: The little girl said, “I want to be a glassblower.”

Spelling: Related Words

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Question of the Day In what ways do freedoms cost more than what even money can buy?

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Prefixes and Suffixes Expository Nonfiction/Text Features Reading Across Texts Content-Area Vocabulary Fluency: Readers’ Theater Grammar: Quotations Spelling: Related Words Time for Social Studies: Economic Opportunity

Fluency: Readers’ Theater

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Turn to page 389.

In groups of three, read this page three times, readers’ theater style.

Be sure you read with characterization.

Turn to page 404 - 407 .

Grammar: Quotations

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tina said, “i wonder if there are wolfs in the desert.

Tina said, “I wonder if there are wolves in the desert.” coyotes live in the desert and they are members of the dog family to Coyotes live in the desert, and they are members of the dog family too.

  You may be asked to identify which words should go inside quotation marks.

In addition to showing the

exact words

indicate many kinds of such as

song

,

titles

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of people, quotation marks

poem

, and

titles

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story

    Titles of longer works such as

books

are indicated with

italics underlined

in handwriting.

in print or Examples: Jane read a story called “A Big Lizard.” I read a poem called “Desert Nights.”

Spelling: Related Words

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Question of the Day When are you free to follow your dreams?

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Build Concept Vocabulary Generalize Details and Facts Context Clues Grammar: Quotations Spelling: Related Words Chart/Table Freedom to Create

  When you a examples.

or , you make that applies to several A people or things are alike in some way.

tells how

  are small pieces of information.

are pieces of information that can be proven to be true.

 Details can help you remember important information, visualize the story events, and justify your predictions, conclusions, generalizations, and feelings related to the story.

   Look for details that help you understand the plot, characters, and setting.

As you read, try to decide which details are important.

Use details to help you decide why the author wrote a selection.

Word Context Clue Synonym Meaning

bottles eyeglasses plates containers bricks mugs windows marbles ornaments

Grammar: Quotations

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coyotes wolves and foxs are all members of the dog family Coyotes, wolves, and foxes are all members of the dog family.

chris and him hears coyotes howling in the desert in july Chris and he hear coyotes howling in the desert in July.

Spelling: Related Words

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     You have learned many words that are similar.

able, ability, deal, dealt How do you pronounce the first word?

What does able mean?

How is the second word similar to the first?

    When you come to an unfamiliar word, think about similar words you already know.

Often words that look and sound similar are related. That means they have similar meanings.

The word describes a person who can do something well.

is a noun that means “ .”

  Use what you know about able to help understand what ability means.

By thinking about related words and using context clues if the word is in a sentence can usually help figure out the new word without looking it up.

        single singular courtesy courteous describe description add additional     It’s almost time for dinner so let’s look for a good place to dine.

The piece of cake crumbled into tiny crumbs when I picked it up.

The job of a goalie is to keep the other team from scoring a goal.

A historian is a person who studies history.

  We learned to decode longer words by dividing them into word parts— base word , prefixes , and suffixes .

Read the sentence to yourself. Raise your hand when you see a word that has a base word and two suffixes.

    Her cheerfulness made us feel at home.

How do we divide cheerfulness into parts?

cheer / ful / ness How does dividing the word into parts help us figure it out?

            mismanagement previewing overjoyed distrustfully midyear disinterested replacement shamefully disorderly oversleeping unpleasantness misconduct     Our fear of the darkness turned out to be needless.

Rebuilding the model for the science fair was a big job.

The outfielder ran to catch the ball.

The whole problem was the result of my carelessness.

   What kind of information have you seen organized in a chart or table ?

Some examples are schedules , calendars , price lists , and multiplication facts .

Both terms chart and table describe the same thing.

can

    Most tables have boxes .

Charts and tables have horizontal rows and/or vertical columns .

Tables usually have a title summarizes the included information.

that The words in the rows and columns tell you what information is given.

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Vocabulary Words Other Vocabulary Words

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