Read Aloud: Listening Comprehension

Today I will read a Poem Poetry

May have rhythm and rhyme.Create feelings and pictures in listeners’ minds.

Listen for enjoyment as I read the poem, Something Told the Wild Geese.

One purpose for listening is to picture what the poet has written about through descriptive words.

What did you feel as you listened to the poems?Turn and talk to your partner. (2)

What do these two poems have in common?Turn and talk to your partner. (1)

Discussion• Why didn’t the leaves turn color during

the time that the stranger was staying at the Baileys’ farm?

Focus Skill: Drawing

Conclusions• An author does not always explain everything in a story. Sometimes you must put together story details with what you know to understand what you are reading. This is called drawing conclusions.

Story Details What I Know Conclusion

To draw a conclusion, readers use

information from the storyalong with

what they know from real life.

Drawing conclusions helps readers understand what happens in a story, and why.

Time to Practice:• First, turn to page 80 in your Practice book.• Then, read the story with your partner.• Finally, we will draw some conclusions from

what you read.

The paragraph says: The sky is clear and blue. The soil is dry. We know: A blue sky means clear weather. Soil gets dry without rain.You can conclude: The weather has been dry.

!!TRY #2 ON YOUR OWN!!

Story Details

What YouKnow

Conclusion

Farmer Morse

Seems sad that

his corn is not

Knee-high

Crops need

water to grow.

Corn plants

grow very tall.

The corn has

not grown enough, because there

hasn’t been enough

rain.

You can try using the READ AHEAD strategy to answer questions about a confusing word or idea in a passage. Sometimes the answers to your questions can be found later on in the text.Let’s review the READ AHEAD strategy:

If you become confused by something as you are reading, you should:

Turn to pg 368

• Let’s read Mountain Mystery and hear how our vocabulary words for the week are used throughout the story.

Something peculiar is something that is very strange and unusual, usually not in a good way.

What peculiar think does the family notice on their

vacation?

If something happens occasionally, it happens once in a while.

Why do you think the family only sees the dog

occasionally?

Something drab looks dull and lacks color.

What is drab about the dog?

When you are fascinated by something, you are very interested in it and pay close attention to it.

Why do you think the writer of the journal is fascinated by the dog?

A hermit is a person who lives alone, often far from a community.

Why do you think the writer’s mother says the

dog could belong to a hermit?

A timid person is shy and unsure of himself or herself.

Because the dog seems timid, what does the

writer wonder?

If something is trembling, it is shaking slightly.

Why do you think the dog is trembling as the

writer speaks to it?

If someone dashed away, they quickly and suddenly ran away.

Why do you think the dog dashed back into the

woods after eating the bacon?

Lesson 14 Spelling Words• Words with Ending /ən/• -on• -en• -an• -ain

Spelling Words: apron button canyon certain chicken cardigan cotton dragon even fountain gallon horizon listen

orphan pardon pollen prison siren swollen driven

Challenge Wordsdolphinopinionoxygenveteranoption

Time for Literacy Stations