1. 4th Grade Theme 2
Week 6
Day 3

2. Question of the Day Quick Write
Would a responsible person be attentive during a school-safety presentation? Why or Why not?
(Be sure to explain you answer)

3. Read Aloud Listening Comprehension
Today I will finish reading part of a News Feature.
News features:
Present facts
Include quotations
I will finish part of “Little School on the Prairies”. Listen to find out what is special about the school on the prairie.
T28 one section on each day Modeling inner voice

4. Comprehension Conflict
The cattle get out and start to eat and trample the hay-stacks.
Plot Events
The cattle are big, scary, and dangerous, and the girls are scared.
There family is not around to help them.
Review the anchor charts created while reading in small group. Use this out line to review the story.
Resolution
Laura shakes a stick at the leas cow, Jack barks at them, and they drive the cows away.

5. Comprehension Practice Book Page 33
Work with your partner to read the story about Ben.
Discuss with your partner what the conflict, plot events, and resolution would be in this story.
Have partners work together. On the next slide go over whole group possible responses.

6. Comprehension Conflict Ben wants to find his cat, but she is missing.
Plot Events
Ben looks for Elsie in all of her favorite places.
He doesn’t find her.
He decides to look in the barn.
Resolution
Ben finds Elsie in the barn and learns she has had kittens.

7. Responsible
If someone is responsible, that person can be trusted to do a job on their own.
Do you agree that Jack was a responsible dog? Explain

8. darted
An animal that darted moved suddenly and quickly in a particular direction.
Why did Laura dart away when Mary told her to stay inside?

9. jostling
If the people in a crowd push or knock against you, they are jostling you.
Why were the cattle jostling each other as Laura and Mary chased them?

10. swerved
If a car swerved, it turned suddenly to avoid hitting something.
If Bright had not swerved, where might the wagon have ended up?

11. attentive
If someone is attentive, that person is carefully listening to or watching something.
What made Laura and jack so attentive in the afternoon?

12. pounced
A person or animal that pounced on something jumped on it eagerly in order to take it.
Why do you think Laura pounced on what Pa had in his pocket?

13. contradicting
Contradicting someone is saying that what the person has said is wrong.
Do you think Laura was contradicting what Pa said about the cattle? Explain.

14. Surviving on the Prairies
Expository Nonfiction Texts:
Gives facts
May have illustrations and captions
Listen as I read to learn more about the challenges homesteaders faced on the farm. As I read I will model what my “inner voice” is saying to me.
Plan places to model your inner voice on page Then on page 173 read in chunks and stop to have partners share their inner voice.

15. Spelling consonant -le
If a word ends in le and a consonant comes before the le, divide the word before the consonant.
Sim-ple
Write each word, dividing it into syllables.
Circle fable angle riddle cradle icicle ladle sparkle
Meddle drizzle speckle vehicle hurtle

16. Prefixes, Suffixes, And Roots
A root is the basic part of a word and gives the word its meaning.
A root that can stand on its own is called a root word.
A prefix is a word part that is added to the beginning of the root word.
A suffix is a word part that is added to the end of a root.

17. Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots
Pre- (before)
Pretest
Re (Back or again)
refill
In (not)
Incorrect
Dis (not)
dishonest
-ible -able
Able to be
Visible
agreeable
-ness
The state of
goodness
-Less
Without
endless
-full
Full of
playful