Mom’s Best Friend 365O

•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 366A

•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 367A

•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 367A

•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 yourphonics and decoding skillswhen readingwords youdon’t know.

Vocabulary 367A

• Trans. 4-9 PB 217

•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 367A

•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 367A

•memorizing: learning by heart

•obedience: the condition of being ready to follow orders

•obstacles: things that get in one’s way

Reading Strategy 367B

Monitor/Clarify• 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 367C

• 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 391A

Noting Details• Trans 4-10 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 391C

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 391E

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

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Phonics 391F

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, received

Spelling 391G

VV Pattern• 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 391G

• Analogies are • 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 SkillsMultiple-Meaning Words 391I

•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 391J

• 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 391K

Commas in a Series• Trans 4-12 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.

• PB 227

More Uses for Commas 391K

• Trans 4-13

•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.

CommasUse commas whenlisting things.

Use a comma between a city and state.

Appositives 391L

•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 391L

• 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 SentencesStay away from choppy sentences.

Combine sentencesthat are related.

Spiral Review 391Q

Cause and Effect•Cause: the reason something happens

•Effect: what happens as a result of the cause

Grammar 391R

•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

Verbs show action or state of being.

Helping verbs show when the actionis 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