Whole Group Instruction

Week 2 Day 3

What parts of a folktale are similar in many cultures?

How do storytellers help people achieve common ground?

Questions to Think About

Vocabulary strategies can help you determine unfamiliar words

What vocabulary strategy did we cover last week?

Context clues will help you understand unfamiliar words

Context Clues

They looked pitiful! Their uniforms were torn and their boots were full of holes.

People of many cultures tell some version of this tale. The settings and characters differ a bit, but the story is very similar.

What clues help you figure out the meaning of version?

Using Context Clues

An author writes to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express ideas or feelings.

An author has a main purpose but they also may have a secondary purpose.

Determining Author’s Purpose

I love reading folktales, legends, and myths. Some folktales have a trickster who fools other

characters in the story. You should read this folktale about why the owl

never sleeps at night. Authors usually do not express their purpose for

writing. How would an author show their purpose for

writing?

Practice

Text Features

Some suffixes indicate that a word is a noun.

These suffixes may be added to a word to make it a noun or added to an existing noun to change that word’s meaning.

Noun Suffixes

-er, -or Someone who; something that: responder

-ant Someone who: observant

-dom State of; realm of: freedom

-ion Act of; state of: action-ment Action of; process of:

movement

Greek or Latin Root Word

Meaning Used in a sentence

Sign A non-material sign This is a sign everything will be okay.

Spec To look He was a spectator at the game.

Therm Heat The thermometer showed me the temperature.

Urb City We live in a suburb. Vid See We watched the

video last night. Corp Body I was part of an

awesome corporation.