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A Quality Response to Reading

means using your Brain-Book-Brain

 

Grade 4 English Slideshows

 

Theme 1 "You Can Do It"

 

"The Gardner"

The Gardener

"Donavan's Word Jar"

Building Background

"My Name is Maria Isabel"

My Name is Maria Isabel

"Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man"

Lou Gehrig": The Luckiest Man

Building Background

"On the Banks of Plum Creek"

anxious

adore

sprucing

recognizing

vacant

retire

leisure

perseverance

compromise

disappointment

uneasy

chortle

 

attentively

rehearsals

pageant

restless

tropical

troublesome

immigrants

modest

appreciation

tremendous

salary

valuable

courageous

sportsmanship

stagger

scoured

bustled

earnestly

blizzard

frantically

 Focus Skill:

Narrative Elements

Reading Rocket 

Focus Skill:

Character's Feelings and Actions

Focus Skill:

Prefixes and Suffixes

Test Tutor

Focus Skill:

Word Identification Strategies

Focus Skill:

Point of View

Objective:

To use setting, characters, and plot to gain meaning.

Objective:

To understand the relationship between character's feelings and actions.

Objective:

To use prefixes and suffixes to decode words and understand their meaning.

Objective:

To decode words using several strategies.

Objective:

To identify point of view.

Theme 2 Vocabulary  "Side By Side"

"The Seven Children" "The Garden of Happiness"

The Garden of Happiness

Building Background

"Nights of the Puffling"

Night of the Pufflins

"Charolette's Web" "How to Babysit an Orangutan"

How to Babysit an Orangutan

Building Background

anticipation

unfamiliar

thicket

clearing

unity

 

lavender

haze

inhaled

mural

skidded

 

uninhabited

burrows

venture

stranded

nestles

instinctively

 

narrator

offstage

acrobat

encourage

fragile

exhausting

sustenance

conspiracy

 

displeasure

jealous

endangered

smuggled

facial

manageable

coordination

 

Focus: Predict Outcomes Focus: Figurative Language Focus: Cause and Effect

Test Tutor

Focus: Theme Focus: Note Taking and Outlining
Objective: To use story clues and what you already know to predict outcomes. Objective: To recognize language and interpret its meaning Objective: To understand cause-and-effect relationships. Objective: To identify the author's message. Objective: To develop effective note-taking techniques.

Theme 2 Skills Practice

Test Tutor

Figurative Language
Narrative Elements
Figurative Language
Summarize
Cause and Effect
Figurative Language
 Summarize
Reading Skills Rocket
 Narrative Elements
Summarize
Cause and Effect
Summarize

 

Grammar Park
The Predicate Whirlwind
Subject Speedway
Sentence Power
Sentence Speedway
Complex Sentence Camp

 

 

Theme 3 "Make Yourself at Home"

 

"Sarah, Plain and Tall

Sarah, Plain and Tall

 

"Stealing Home"

Stealing Home

"A Cricket in Time Square"

The Cricket in Time Square

"Look to the North"

Look to the North:
A Wolf Pup Diary

"Saguaro Cactus"

Saguaro Cactus

alarmed

windbreak

conch

paddock

rustle

pastimes

tutor

impose

glumly

irritably

disposition

bicker

grudge

scrounging

eavesdropping

wistfully

excitable

logical

sympathetically

acquaintance

tundra

surrender

abundant

piteously

bonding

brush

spiny

teeming

habitat

topple

decomposes

 Focus Skill:

Draw Conclusions 

Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast

Focus Skill: Sequence

Focus Skill: Study strategies & Test-Taking Strategies

Focus Skill: Elements of Nonfiction

Objective:

To use story information and real-life experiences to draw conclusions.

Objective:

To determine likenesses and differences

Objective:

To understand that time-order words signal a sequence of events in stories.

Objective:

To understand and apply study strategies.

 To learn strategies to use for taking test.

Objective:

To recognize the elements and organization of expository nonfiction.

Theme 3 Skills Practice

Test Tutor

Draw Conclusions
Compare and Contrast
Draw Conclusions
Compare and Contrast
Summarize

 

Reading Skills Rocket
Draw Conclusions
Compare and Contrast
Draw Conclusions
Compare and Contrast
Summarize

 

Grammar Park
Noun Dunk
Plural Play
Exploring for Possessives
Noun Explorer
Pronoun State Fair
The Pronoun Clubhouse

 

 

 

Theme 4 Creative Minds

The Kids' Invention Book

The Kids' Invention Book 

The Case of Pablo's Nose

The Case of Pablo's Nose

In the Days of King Adobe

In the Days of King Adobe

Red Writing Hood

Red Writing Hood
 

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

Vocabulary:

document

circular

prosthetic

scholarship

device

modify

disabilities

 

Vocabulary:

muttered

straightaway

strengthening

retorted

sculptor

alibi

 

Vocabulary:

thrifty

generous

roguish

rascally

fascinated

 

Vocabulary:

script

repentant

triumphantly

acceptable

desperately

discards

injustice

circumstances

 

Vocabulary:

decreed

famine

implored

trickle

plentifully

Skill: Main Idea and Details

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph.

The details are pieces of information that support and explain the main idea.

They answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how.

Reading Skills Rocket

Skill: Sequencing

Sequence is the order in which events happen.

The author may use signal words such as first, next, then, finally, afternoon, or tomorrow to show sequence.

Reading Skills Rocket

Skill: Main Idea and Details

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph.

The details are pieces of information that support and explain the main idea.

They answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how.

Reading Skills Rocket

 

Skill: Sequencing

Sequence is the order in which events happen.

The author may use signal words such as first, next, then, finally, afternoon, or tomorrow to show sequence.

Reading Skills Rocket

 

Skill: Compare and Contrast

When you compare tales of different cultures, you tell how characters, settings, and plots are alike.

When you contrast tales of different cultures, you tell how characters, settings, and plots are different.

Reading Skills Rocket

Following Written Directions

Written directions list all the steps that need to be followed to make or do something. The steps are listed in the order they must be done.  First, read all the steps.  Next, list everything you need. Finally, follow all the steps in the correct order.

Test Tutor

Following Written Directions

Written directions list all the steps that need to be followed to make or do something. The steps are listed in the order they must be done.  First, read all the steps.  Next, list everything you need. Finally, follow all the steps in the correct order.

Test Tutor

Sequencing: Test Tutor

Following Written Directions

Written directions list all the steps that need to be followed to make or do something. The steps are listed in the order they must be done.  First, read all the steps.  Next, list everything you need. Finally, follow all the steps in the correct order.

Test Tutor

Main Idea and Details:  Test Tutor

Sequencing: Test Tutor

Compare and Contrast: Test Tutor

 

Theme 5

Fire

A Very Important Day

Blue Willow

In My Family

 

Theme 6

The Gold Rush

I Have Heard of a Land

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox

Fly Traps! Plants That Bite Back

The Down and Up Fall

 

 


Writing Detective

Proofreading Made Perfect

 

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words