Transcript Lesson 26 Day 1 comp

Vowel Variant /ŏŏ/ oo, ou
Cause and effect
“The Cat Who Walked Across France”
Irregular Verbs
 “The
Favorite Sweater”
 Listen to find out why the sweater is a
favorite sweater.
 Good
readers pay attention to punctuation as
they read.
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Pause briefly at commas
Pause longer at periods and other end marks
Make voices go up in surprise when reading an
exclamation
Why
is the sweater
Elva’s favorite sweater?
finally
world
sugar
impossible
special
imagine
idea
enjoy
 Repeat
the word
after me:
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look
could
 The
words look
and could have the
/ŏŏ/sound in the
middle.
 What sound?
 fit
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Change the /i/
sound to /ŏŏ/.
 had
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Change the /a/
sound to /ŏŏ/.
 lick
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Change the /i/
sound to /ŏŏ/.
 The
letters oo can
stand for the
/ŏŏ/sound , the
second sound you
hear in the word
book.
 The
letters ou can
stand for the
/ŏŏ/sound, the
middle sound you
hear in the word
could.
 book
 could
hood
book
shook
good
wool
should would could shouldn’t wouldn’t
crook
couldn’t
Screen clipping taken: 3/21/2009, 12:28 AM
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book
should
took
stood
crook
would
look
could
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good
shook
cookout
understood
bookstore
cookies
couldn’t
 Read
page 324
in your book.
 In
the sentence
Tim was hungry all
afternoon because
he skipped lunch,
one thing causes
another thing to
happen.
 Notice
the word
because in the
sentence – it is a
clue to the cause.
 What
happens next
– Tim was hungry
all afternoon– is
the effect.
 Read
“Pizza
Factory” on page
325.
 What
 What
 What
is the causeand-effect
relationship in the
first sentence that
explains why Joy
and Sam make a
pizza?
causes Sam
to add more
spices?
is another
cause-and-effect
relationship you
found?
 “The
Cat Who Walked Across France”
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story about a cat who loses its home when its
owner dies, and then roams about looking for
home
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FICTION
Fiction stories are make-________. They have a
setting, characters, and a plot.
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 Where
did the cat go at the end of the story?
 Why
do you think the cat went back to the
house?
 Did
you find any cause-and-effect
relationships in this story? If so, what were
they?
 The
old woman’s belongings were shipped to
the house where she was born.
 belongings
– The things that you own are
your belongings. They belong to you.
 What’s
 Some
the word?
of my belongings are my clothes.
Would some of my other belongings be my
books or your books?
 The
cat spent some of his time fleeing from
stray dogs.
 fleeing
– If you are fleeing from
something, you are running away from
it.
 What’s
 Which
the word?
of these would you be more likely to
see: people fleeing from a fire, or people
fleeing from an amusement park?
 Daily
proofreading:
I is going to my grandfather’s Farm
 The
cat had a good home with the old
woman.
 Now
he has a good home with a new
family.
 The
boy and girl have a new pet.
The boy and girl have a new pet.
Now he has a good home with a new family.
 The
verbs has and have tell about the
present, or now.
 Use have with I, you, we, they, and plural
nouns to tell about now.
 Use has with he, she, it, and singular nouns
to tell about now.
The boy and girl have a new pet.
 The
 Use
verb had tells about the past.
had with all pronouns and nouns to tell
about the past.
 Letter
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A business letter may ask for information or
place an order.
The first paragraph explains the purpose of the
letter.
The writing is clear, polite, and focused on one
idea.
The parts of a business letter are the heading,
date, inside address, greeting, body, closing, and
signature.
The greeting, or salutation, is followed by a
colon. A comma follows the formal closing.