1. Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea
by Gloria Rand
illustrated by
Ted Rand
Compiled by:
Terry Sams PES

2. Study Skills Genre: Historical Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Author’s Purpose
Comprehension Strategy: Predict
Comprehension Review Skill: Sequence
Vocabulary: Homonyms and Homographs

3. Summary
Can you imagine eating, sleeping, playing, and going to school all at sea? that’s exactly what the Madsen family children did aboard their father’s cargo ship, the John Ena. the Madsen family shared many memorable events on the ship, from surviving frightening storms to celebrating the holidays.

4. Genre: Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is made up of stories that take place in a certain time and place in the past. Real historical figures and settings may be included in a fiction story.
Historical fiction is based on real events I history, but it is a story to which the author has added details from his or her imagination.

5. Comprehension Skill
Author’s Purpose is the author’s reason or reasons for writing this story. An author might have more than one reason for writing.
Authors don’t usually tell you this. You have to figure the reasons out.
It might be to inform or teach, to entertain, to express their feelings or ideas, and to persuade or convince you.

6. Practice Author’s Purpose PB 203
Before Reading
After Reading
Prediction of Author’s Purpose
Reasons for Prediction
Author’s Actual Purpose
1. Persuade
Title sounds like an advertisement.
I see facts about the ship and opinions
4. Persuade

7. Comprehension Strategy Predict
Good readers think about what will happen next.
Before you read, look over the passage to predict the author’s purpose so you have an idea of how to read the piece.
Hint: Illustrations and diagrams are clues to the author’s purpose.

8. Comprehension Skill- Sequence
Sequence means the order in which things happen.
Dates, times, and clue words such as first, then, next, and last can help you understand the order of events.
Sometimes two or more events happen at the same time. Words such as meanwhile and during can show this.

9. Vocabulary Skill: Homonyms and Homographs
When reading, you may find a familiar word used in a new way. It may be a homonym or a homograph.
Homonyms are spelled and pronounced the same, but have different meanings and histories
Homographs are spelled the same but are pronounced differently and have different meanings.

10. Research Skill Parts of a Book TE 537L
Table of contents – listing of the chapter and lesson titles and the page on which each one begins found in the front of the book.
Glossary– dictionary of important terms in the book found at the end of a book.
Index - an alphabetical listing of subjects covered in the book. Also in the back of the book.

11. Research Skill Parts of a Book TE 537L
A bibliography lists books that an author used to write the book.
An appendix contains graphs and charts.
The copyright page tells the year a book was published.
The title page gives its title, author, and publisher.

12. Research Skill – Parts of a Book
Chapter Title - Section heads, captions, marginal notes, and headnotes are text organizers found within a chapter.
Section heads are titles of sections.
Captions are text under pictures.
Marginal notes are additional facts noted in the margin.
Numbered Footnotes – appear at the bottom of a page or a the back of a book.

13. Weekly Fluency Check - Pauses TE a`
Good readers pause in certain places as they read to make the reading easy for listeners to follow.
Periods, dashes, and commas provide clues for pauses.

14. Fun Stuff and Practice Other Books by Gloria Rand Pronouns Homophones
More Homophones and Homographs
More Practice

15. Question of the Week TE 516m
What is it like to live at sea?

16. Day 2 - Question of the Day
What would you like about life at sea? What would you miss from your life now?

17. Day 3 - Question of the Day
How is a ship like and unlike other types of homes?

18. Day 4 - Question of the Day - Review
Why do you think someone would be willing to face danger and loneliness to sail around the world?

19. Review Questions What is an important theme of this story?
Why id the author include the “Afterword”?
Why do you think they chose Hawaii for their home?
What happened when the ship “quivered a strange quiver and slowly righted herself?
How would you describe the mother?

20. Review Questions How was the crew like a family to the children?
What happened after Captain Madsen became a steamship captain?
What was the author’s purpose for writing this story?
Where did the children probably get their animals?
Who were Miss Shipman and Albert alike?

21. Vocabulary - Say It conducted stern dignified cargo navigation
celestial
conducted
dignified
navigation
quivered
bow

22. More Words to Know
nautical
plush
blasts
tempest
tide

23. The rear part of a ship or boat
stern
The rear part of a ship or boat

24. shook; shivered; trembled
quivered
shook; shivered; trembled

25. skill or process of finding a ship’s or aircraft’s position and course
navigation
skill or process of finding a ship’s or aircraft’s position and course

26. dignified
having dignity; noble; stately

27. conducted
directed; managed

28. of the sky or outer space
celestial
of the sky or outer space

29. load of goods carried by a ship, plane, or truck
cargo
load of goods carried by a ship, plane, or truck

30. the forward part of a ship, boat, or aircraft
bow
the forward part of a ship, boat, or aircraft

31. strong, sudden gusts of wind or air
blasts
strong, sudden gusts of wind or air

32. a violent windstorm or a violent disturbance
tempest
a violent windstorm or a violent disturbance

33. tide
the rise and fall of the ocean about every twelve hours, caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun

34. of or about ships, sailors, or navigation
nautical
of or about ships, sailors, or navigation

35. luxurious; expensive; stylish
plush
luxurious; expensive; stylish

36. The captain knew all the methods of navigation.

37. The captain knew all the methods of navigation.

38. The John Ena carried cargo all over the world.

39. The John Ena carried cargo all over the world.

40. The captain was a dignified figure as he stood on the upper deck.

41. The captain was a dignified figure as he stood on the upper deck.

42. There is often a fancy carving of a woman on the bow of a ship.

43. There is often a fancy carving of a woman on the bow of a ship.

44. From the bow to the stern, sails work very hard.

45. From the bow to the stern, sails work very hard.

46. Sails used instruments or steered a course using the celestial bodies, or stars

47. Sails used instruments or steered a course using the celestial bodies, or stars.

48. The captain was the commander of the ship, and he conducted all the ship’s business.

49. The captain was the commander of the ship, and he conducted all the ship’s business.

50. The John Ena quivered in the heavy storm.

51. The John Ena quivered in the heavy storm.

52. The moon causes high tides and low tides.

53. The moon causes high tides and low tides.

54. The violent tempest had winds that were very strong.

55. The violent tempest had winds that were very strong.

56. The southwest winds will blast the shore away.

57. The southwest winds will blast the shore away.

58. The ship was not very luxurious, but to the Madsen family, it was home.

59. The ship was not very luxurious, but to the Madsen family, it was home.

60. The sailor taught them how to make nautical knots.

61. The sailor taught them how to make nautical knots.

62. Writing Assignment Write an Advertisement
Think of a place you know and like.
Imagine you have been asked to write a description of this place for a travel brochure.
Describe the place using sensory words.
Make it sound appealing and attractive.

63. Spelling Words Multisyllabic Words
disagreeable
refreshment
unbreakable
declaration
retirement
reaction
prerecorded
incorrectly
incredibly
disobedient

64. Spelling Words Multisyllabic Words
misdialed
undefined
unhappily
gleefully
repayment
questionable
displacement
watchfully
sportsmanship

65. CHALLENGE
strengthen
cubicle
knuckle
individual

66. This Week’s Word Wall Words
Click and type your own words for this week:

67. Let’s review our Spelling words
Let’s review our Spelling words. Watch carefully because they will flash on the screen for just a moment. We can clap as we spell the word, or we might just practice reading the words.

68. midshipman

69. displacement

70. questionable

71. repayment

72. sportsmanship

73. gleefully

74. watchfully

75. unhappily

76. undefined

77. misdialed

78. retirement

79. declaration

80. unbreakable

81. refreshment

82. disagreeable

83. disobedient

84. incredibly

85. incorrectly

86. prerecorded

87. reaction

88. strengthen

89. knuckle

90. individual

91. cubicle

92. three-dimensional