1. The Stranger By: Chris Van Allsburg Journeys
Theme 3, Selection 1, Day 1
Taught By: Mr. Williams

2. Noting Details Information
Details are important to getting the big picture of the story.
Look for modifying words that describe what and how things look or are happening
Explanation
Details can help to explain why information is important to a story.
Look for clarifying words and sentences that help explain why events are occurring.
Emotion/Motivation
Details often show how characters are feeling or their motivation for various actions.
Look for words that describe feelings, reasons, or characters internal thoughts.
Description
Details can help the reader see, hear, and feel events as they happen in the story.
Look for sensory words that appeal to each of the five senses while reading.

3. Nanabozho Brings the Seasons
Comprehension Skill:
Noting Details
What details help you see what happens where Nanabozho runs?
What do the details of the story tell you about Peepaukawis?
How does Peepaukawis bring about foul weather?

4. Structural Analysis: Compound Words
What are Compound Words?
No space
buttonholes
overnight
Hyphen
good-by
well-mannered
space
high school
Weather vane

5. autumn

6. draft

7. etched

8. frost

9. mercury

10. peculiar

11. thermometer

12. timid

13. Key Fall Vocabulary autumn mercury peculiar draft thermometer etched
The season after summer
Silvery, toxic, white metal used in thermometers
peculiar
draft
Unusual, strange, odd, or bizarre
A flow of air
thermometer
etched
An instrument that measures temperature
Made a design by cutting lines
timid
frost
Easily frightened, shy
Very thin covering of ice

14. Key Fall Vocabulary Detail Map
After reading each page, use a blank sheet of paper to add to a Detail Map describing informative, explanative, emotional and discriptive details from the selection.
At the end of the story analyze the details that you found and categorize them into two categories (Stranger Details and Weather Details).
Make sure that you are including modifying words that describe how and why events in the story happened and how things appeared.
When finished go back and reread this week’s selection in order to improve reading fluency.

15. The Stranger By: Chris Van Allsburg Journeys
Theme 3, Selection 1, Day 2
Taught By: Mr. Williams

16. autumn

17. draft

18. etched

19. frost

20. mercury

21. peculiar

22. thermometer

23. timid

24. Key Fall Vocabulary autumn mercury peculiar draft thermometer etched
The season after summer
Silvery, toxic, white metal used in thermometers
peculiar
draft
Unusual, strange, odd, or bizarre
A flow of air
thermometer
etched
An instrument that measures temperature
Made a design by cutting lines
timid
frost
Easily frightened, shy
Very thin covering of ice