Moms Best Friend 365 O Genre Nonfiction The

Mom’s Best Friend 365 O • Genre: Nonfiction • The true account of one family and their dog guide. • Selection Summary: • Leslie and her family learn to adjust to life without their mother when she is away training her new dog guide, Ursula.

Background 366 A • Remember this theme focuses on relationships between family members, friends, and others. • We will read a nonfiction selection about a blind woman and her guide dog. • Let’s read 366 -367 to learn about training dogs to help people.

Phonics/Decoding 367 A • What are our Phonics/Decoding skills? • They are chunking, words we know, beginning and endings, affixes, syllables, try different vowel sounds, base words or root words, blending, look carefully

Phonics/Decoding 367 A • I kept thinking I heard her whimpering for a game of catch. • Help me figure out this word. • I look for familiar parts, like wh, imp, er, ing. I blend those sounds. It sounds correct, and I read the sentence again.

Decoding Always use your phonics and decoding skills when reading words you don’t know.

Vocabulary • Trans. 4 -9 PB 217 367 A • attachment: a feeling of fond connection between two beings • braille: a system of writing in raised dots used by people without sight • dog guide: a dog especially trained to lead people who are blind

Vocabulary 367 A • instinct: a natural feeling that guides one to act in a certain way • layout: the arrangement of something • mastered: became expert in a skill or art • mature: full-grown

Vocabulary 367 A • memorizing: learning by heart • obedience: the condition of being ready to follow orders • obstacles: things that get in one’s way

Reading Strategy Monitor/Clarify 367 B • As you read about Mom and her dog guide, Ursula, monitor your understanding of Ursula’s training. If necessary, reread and use the photographs to clarify. • As I read I periodically check for my understanding. Sometimes I’ll read ahead to clarify something I didn’t understand. • Remember to look the photographs, read ahead, or ask questions to help clarify.

Comprehension Skill • 367 C Trans 4 -10 • During your reading, note the details about the main characters. • We will record details about the characters on the Graphic Organizer.

Comprehension Skills Noting Details • Trans 4 -10 391 A PB 218 • You must focus on details about the main characters and the steps they take. • Pay attention to what happens before, during, and end of the story. • By using details, it help you visualize characters, places, and events. (also pay attention to the character’s mood)

Information & Study Skills 391 C Paraphrasing • Paraphrasing is restating what someone has written or said in your own words, without changing the meaning. • When paraphrasing: • Use your own words • State the info simply and clearly • Include all important ideas and details.

Decoding Longer Words 391 E Syllabication VV Pattern • She judges her location from a radio playing music in the center of the pen. • When 2 vowels appear in a word they usually make 1 sound, and are kept together when the word is divided into syllables. Ex. re-peat and ex-claim. • However in the word ra-di-o, each vowel gets its own sound. • Let’s look at the word obedience, unusual, diabetes, piano. • Let’s decode these words. • PB 222

VV Pattern • . . Language Arts rules (United)Vowel sounds syllable patternsLong E Words with the CVV Pattern. asf

Phonics Less Common Long e Spellings • Recognizing the less common spellings that can stand for the long e sound can help you decode unfamiliar words. • The letters ei, ey, i, ie, and y can stand for the long e sound. • Help me with these words • relieved, retrievers, machine, perfectly, 391 F received

Spelling VV Pattern 391 G • Poem, idea, create, diet, liar, diary, riot, area, giant, lion, radio, cruel, ruin, rodeo, science • All of these words have the VV syllable pattern • Divide words into syllables between the vowels • In the word quiet it follows the same pattern because the qu is one sound /kw/ • PB 419 Homework PB 223

Vocabulary • Analogies are • • 391 G Exit is to enter as destroy is to ____ Create Bark is to dog as roar is to _____ Lion Author is to book as poet is to _____ Poem Sweet is to sour as kind is to _____ PB 224

Vocabulary Skills Multiple-Meaning Words 391 I • Mom missed the dog even more. • She missed the opposite curb and kept walking toward the traffic. • The word missed does not mean the same in both sentences. • Many words have more than one meaning. • Usually find the meaning from the context.

Vocabulary Skills (cont) Multiple-Meaning Words 391 J • She wrote letters and sent pictures. The letters on the collar spell the dog’s name. • She knows from the change in the sound of her footsteps. I carried loose change in my coat pocket. • The trainer forged Ursula into a great dog guide. Mom and Ursula forged ahead in the crowd. • Mom said to be patient. The dog is a patient at the veterinarian’s office. • PB 226

Grammar Skills • Trans 4 -12 • PB 227 391 K Commas in a Series PB 227 • A series is a list of 3 or more items. • Use commas to separate the items in a series. Put a comma after each item in the series except the last one. • Use and or or before the last item in a series.

More Uses for Commas • Trans 4 -13 391 K • Use a comma to set off the words, yes, no, and well when they appear as introductory words at the beginning of a sentence. • Use commas to set off the names of people who are addressed directly.

Commas Use commas when listing things. Use a comma between a city and state.

Appositives 391 L • Commas also are used to set off appositives. • Appositives are adjectives or adjectival phrases that directly follow or precede the nouns they modify. • Ex. Ursula, Mom’s new dog guide, was • skittish at first. PB 228

Improving Your Writing 391 L • Combining Sentences by Creating a Series. • Good writers put items in series in one sentence rather than mentioning the items in separate sentences. • Ana bought a dog dish. Then she purchased a sleeping blanket. After that, she bought a whistle. • Improved: Ana bought a dog dish, a sleeping blanket, and a whistle.

Combining Sentences Stay away from choppy sentences. Combine sentences that are related.

Spiral Review 391 Q Cause and Effect • Cause: the reason something happens • Effect: what happens as a result of the cause

Grammar 391 R • A verb phrase is made up of a main verb and a helping verb. • The main verb shows action. The helping verb works with the main verb. • The verb am, is, and are help other verbs show an action that is happening now. • The verbs was, were, have, has, and had help other verbs show an action in the past.

Verbs show action or state of being. Helping verbs show when the action is taking place.

Verbs

Spelling Test • • • 1. poem 2. idea 3. create 4. diary 5. area 6. giant 7. usual 8. radio 9. cruel 10. quiet • • • 11. diet 12. liar 13. fuel 14. riot 15. actual 16. lion 17. ruin 18. trial 19. rodeo 20. science

Challenge Words • appreciate • variety • enthusiastic • realize • eventually

Study Guide • • • Monitor and clarify Noting details Paraphrasing Vv pattern Long e sound Multiple meaning Analogies Commas Appositive Combining sentences Cause and effect verbs