Lesson 2

Question of the Day Who is a person you admire? What have you learned from the person you look up to?? A person I admire is ______. I admire this person because _____.

Root Words; Endings –ed, -ing Remember that words are often easier to read if they are broken into syllables. Think of how many beats are in a word. Like planted it has 2 syllables plant/ed How many syllables do these words have? starling star/ling calling call/ing patted pat/ted Do you see if the final consonant of a root word is doubled when an ending is added, one consonant goes into each syllable, as in pat/ed. T174

Root Words; Endings –ed, -ing Adding a final –ed does not always add an extra syllable. Find the root word for each of these words. How many syllables does each word have? hiked jumped shared T174

Eddie felt disappointed. The author says that the best way to become a writer is to read a lot of books. It has characters with feelings that real people have. The story takes place at Eddie’s school. Everyone has a story to tell. He wants to know how authors know what to write. Eddie will tell that he learned how to be a writer. Eddie meets a real author at his school.

Written Response Essay: Write about what Eddie and the narrator of “Surprise” think about when they read books. Eddie and the narrator feel like book authors write parts that are just for them. They wonder how the writers know how to write special parts for each reader.

Vocabulary Would one person in a movie theater be thought of as an assembly? Would you use just one kind of fabric in a quilt that is a patchwork? If you saw an animal that squirmed, how would it move? How would you feel about having an autographed copy of your favorite author’s new book? If your principal dismissed third graders at the end of an assembly, what would the students do? Do you have plenty of time to relax after school? T179

DOL stay away from that hot stove? we won the game. Check Your Work!

Commands and Exclamations A command tells someone to do something. It can end with a period or an exclamation mark. An exclamation expresses surprise, excitement, or other strong feelings. It has an exclamation mark at the end of the sentence. Sometimes an exclamation is a command, such as What out for the truck! Sometimes an exclamation is not a command, such as I found a dollar! That sentence does not tell a person to do something. T180

Commands and Exclamations Tell me if these are either commands or exclamations. Tell me about the last book you read. I love that story! Do not bend the pages! T180

Writing: Interview Today we are going to revise our interview questions. Once you have revised your questions, I want you to write your classmate’s name in the spaces you left between the questions to show who is being interviewed. Remember to be accurate in recording answers, but you do not have to take down the answer word for word. Save these interviews for tomorrow! T181