1. Unit 1, Lesson 3
The Tree House
Day 1

2. Word Knowledge outside inside shiny dull beautiful ugly
open close down up wide narrow
top bottom
Whisper read these words.
Read them after me.
These words contain pairs of words that are antonyms or opposites.

3. Word Knowledge board bored for four no know hole whole
Whisper read these words.
Read them with me.
These words are homophones. They sound the same, but they are spelled differently and have different meanings.

4. hung rehung take retake
Word Knowledge
hung rehung take retake
make remake
Whisper read these words.
Read them with me.
These are all verbs with the prefix “re.”
“Re” means again.

5. Word Knowledge trunk tree branches wood Whisper read these words.
Read them with me.
How are all of these words related?
Add some more words that would fit this category.

6. Word Knowledge into with lift visit window Whisper read these words.
Read them with me.
What sound do all of these words have in common?

7. Word Knowledge
The boards were crooked, and the roof had holes where the pieces of wood didn’t quite meet.
Whisper read this sentence.
Read it with me.
What is the homophone for “hole?”

8. Word Knowledge Whisper read the sentence. Read it with me.
Chrissy wondered what Leah had inside her tree house.
Whisper read the sentence.
Read it with me.
What words in this sentence are related to tree house?

9. Word Knowledge
There was a little porch where you could sit with your legs dangling.
Whisper read this sentence.
Read the sentence with me.
What is the antonym of little?

10. Word Knowledge You can get fresh air if you lift open a window.
Whisper read this sentence.
Read it with me.
Which words have the /i/ sound?

11. Genre
The characters behave as people do in real life. The setting of the story is a real place or could be a real place.
The setting of the story is a real place or cold be a real place.
The events in the story could happen in real life.

12. Meet the Author Turn to page 61 in your anthology.
Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father was in the army, so the family lived in many different places. She even attended junior high school in Tokyo, Japan.

13. Lois Lowry
She taught herself to read before she was four years old when she realized that letters made sounds, sounds made words, words made sentences, and sentences made stories.

14. Lois Lowry
She was so excited by her discovery that she says, “It was then that I decided that one day I would write books.” She wrote her first children’s book when she was forty years old, in honor of her sister, Helen, who died of cancer.

15. Lois Lowry
Since then she has published many children’s stories, some of them based upon the lives of her own children.

16. Meet the Illustrator
Trina Schart Hyman worked many years before she became a famous children’s illustrator. She started drawing when she was young and went on to art schools in her hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

17. Trina Schart Hyman
While living in Sweden, she got her first job illustrating Pippi Longstocking. It took her only two weeks. She later returned to the United States and had many rejections before getting work as an illustrator.

18. Trina Schart Hyman
In 1985 she won a Caldecott Award, one of the most important awards for children’s books, for Saint George and the Dragon. Trina Schart Hyman is known for using people from her life, including her neighbors, friends, their children, and her children, in her illustrations.

19. Vocabulary
The Tree House

20. magnificent
very beautiful

21. marvelous
outstanding

22. lovely, pleasing to look at
beautiful
lovely, pleasing to look at

23. Peered
look intently

24. Height
how tall something is

25. The queen wore a ____ crown.
height
beautiful
magnificent
peered
marvelous

26. That chocolate cake tastes ___.
height
beautiful
magnificent
peered
marvelous

27. You can measure the ___ of something with a ruler.
height
beautiful
magnificent
peered
marvelous

28. He ____ at the birds through his binoculars.
height
beautiful
magnificent
peered
marvelous

29. Matching Vocabulary 1. beautiful 2. height 3. magnificent 4. peered
5. marvelous
a. outstanding
b. great, wonderful
c. lovely, pleasing to look at
d. looked
e. how tall something is

30. The Tree House
You have ten minutes to whisper read the story. As you read fill out your Clues, Problems and Wonderings sheet. Remember that you must have three entries in each column.
Be sure to put your name and date on the Clues, Problems and Wonderings.

31. Clues, Problems & Wonderings
Let’s share just a few of our Clues, Problems and Wonderings.
Put your Clues, Problems and Wonderings in your reading folder.
Put your books in your desk.

32. Spelling Pretest
I will say the word, use it in a sentence and then say the word again.
I will ask you to say the word out loud and then write the word.
I will not repeat words, so listen carefully.

33. Verbs Show actions of the subject of a sentence.
Morgan ran down the street.
Dimitrius wrote a story about his trip to Canada.

34. Show condition of the subject of a sentence.
Jessica is tall.
Robert was ill.

35. Show state of being of the subject of a sentence.
Jasmine and Jamier are happy.
Doug and Nirmit are in the room.

36. Linking Verbs Some state-of-being verbs can also be linking verbs.
I am a teacher. Am is the linking verb; it links the noun, teacher to the subject, I.

37. Linking Verbs They are both very tall.
Are is the linking verb; it links the adjective, tall, to the subject, they.