Mother Fletcher's Gift
Question of the Week: Why should we care about people we don't know?
Book Online: Go to your online textbook to hear the story and/or concepts read to you and for you to practice.
Vocabulary Words:
fixtures
flimsy
incident
apparently
subscribe
survive
Spelling Words:
- short vowels
- full list in your Reading packets
- for list: go to spellingcity.com
Skills/Concepts:
- Genre: Realistic Fiction
- Character: the people or animals who take part in the events of the story
- Ereading Worksheets: Characterization
- Theme: the main idea or central meaning of a piece of writing. The theme is often not stated. You can find it using evidence from the story as clues
- Ereading Worksheets: Theme
- Quia - Literary Elements: Setting, Plot, Characters
- Inferring: use background knowledge with clues in the text to come up with our own ideas about what the author is trying to present.
- Inferring PPT: Make an Inference
- Inference Questions: What Can You Infer?
- Inference Questions 2: What Can You Infer #2?
- Inference game: Rags to Riches Inferences
- Word Origins: Roots: many English words contain Greek and Latin roots
- Synonyms - a word that means the same or nearly the same as another word
- Antonyms - a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
- Rate - different speeds for different types of text: descriptions or dialogue
- Thank you Letter - letter or note that expresses thanks.
- Listening and Speaking - Talk shows
- ONLINE YOUTUBE VIDEOS:
1) Literary Elements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rges30Tb_sA
2) Inferring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UU30-0J-Iw
Small Groups:
- leveled readers
- main selection reading
- reinforce skills/concepts
- expand the skills/concepts
- extend the skills/concepts
- independent practice
“There is more treasure in books, than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
-Walt Disney
Contact Info:
Mrs. Gail Boe
6th Grade Teacher
gboe@newulm.k12.mn.us