1. Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers 392A
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot.
Selection Summary:
When Yinglan Yang is uninterested in American culture after the family’s move from China, her brother and sister plot to change her mind.

3. This theme is about the ways in which people connect with one another.
Background 392K
This theme is about the ways in which people connect with one another.
You are about to read about a brother and sister who use a trick to try to get their older sister to connect with a boy at her school.
Read
What are some of your customs?

4. Vocabulary 393A Trans 4-16
accompaniment: a musical part that adds to the performance of a singer or musician
demonstration: a process through which someone shows and explains to others how something works.
heritage: all the practices and beliefs passed down from earlier generations.

5. Vocabulary 393A
impressed: had a strong, positive effect on someone’s feeling.
noble: showing greatness of character by unselfish behavior.
opera: a form of theater

6. Vocabulary 393A rhythmic: having a strong beat with a pattern to it
PB 232
tradition: the passing down of culture from one generation to the next.

7. What are our Phonics/Decoding skills?
Phonics 393A
What are our Phonics/Decoding skills?
They are chunking, words we know, beginning and endings, affixes, syllables, try different vowel sounds, base words or root words, blending, look carefully

8. Vocabulary Link
culture: the customs, beliefs, and way of life common to a set of people
customary: according to habit or tradition; usual
utensil: an instrument used to handle and eat food
consumed: eaten or used up
converse: to talk with one or more people

10. Phonics 393A
It could turn out to be really embarrassing for Second Sister.
Help me figure out this word. What word parts do you know?

11. Strategy Focus: Question
Reading Strategy 393B
Strategy Focus: Question
Who is Yang the Second? Who secretly admires her? As you read the selection, use what you discover about characters and events to create more questions that you can ask your classmates.
By asking yourself questions about the characters and events of a story can help you better understand what is happening,

13. Compare and Contrast Trans 4-17
Comprehension Skill
Compare and Contrast Trans 4-17
We will focus on how characters or events are alike or are different.
Venn Diagram PB 233
Compare is how things are similar
Words such as like, as, or both signal comparisons.
Contrast is to find the differences.
The word but signals contrast.

14. Decoding Longer Words 413E PB 237 Words ending in –ed or -ing
Look at the familiar word ending. Remember when you add –ed, drop the e, and add –ed or -ing.
Now we were using the lines we had rehearsed.
When the ending is added to a word like begin that has a short vowel sound in the final syllable, the final consonant is doubled
The two of us were beginning to repeat ourselves.
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15. Words ending in –ed or –ing 413E
I paused to wash a couple of rice bowls before continuing.
When I cover the –ing, I don’t recognize that word (continu), then I remember that words ending with e drop the e when an ending is added.
arrange - arranging
sip – sipped
practice – practicing
nod – nodded
PB 237

16. Suffixes suffixes Suffixes are word parts added to base words or
word roots that
changes the
meaning of the
word.
suffixes

17. Phonics 413F Double Consonants
Recognizing words with double consonants can help you decode unfamiliar words.
1. in most words with double consonants, the consonants stand for a single sound
2. in a few words with double consonants, each consonant stands for a separate sound
Third Sister suggested that we stand behind a dinosaur.
Help me figure out this word.

18. Spelling 413G Words with –ed or -ing
These words are made from a base word
deserved, directing, planned, visiting, mixed
When a base word ends with e, the e is usually dropped when –ed is added. ex. deserved
When a base word doesn’t end with an e, no spelling change is needed. ex. directing

19. Spelling 413G Words with –ed or –ing PB 238
When a one-syllable base word ends with one vowel and a single consonant, the consonant is usually doubled when –ed or –ing is added, ex. planned.
When a two-syllable word ends with one vowel and a single consonant, the consonant is often not doubled when –ed or –ing is added, ex. visiting
When a one-syllable base word ends with one vowel followed by an x, the x is not doubled because it stands for 2 sounds

20. What spelling words complete these word groups?
Vocabulary 413G PB239
Classifying
What spelling words complete these word groups?
found, saw,
spotted
basketball, soccer,
swimming
funny, laughable,
amusing

21. Vocabulary Skills 413I Dictionary: Prefixes
The lines suddenly sounded really stiff and unnatural.
If you recognize the base word but not the part attached to it, you may be able to figure out its meaning by looking up the word part in the dictionary.
Dictionaries list prefixes alphabetically.
What do these prefixes mean?
un, re, in, im, com, con PB 241

22. Prefixes prefixes prefixes un- means not re- means again
Prefixes are word
parts added to a ‘
base word or word
root that will
change the meaning
of the word.
prefixes
im- means not,
or opposite
prefixes
Con and com mean with,
together, sometimes
not

23. Grammar 413K Interjections Trans 4-19
An interjection is a word or words that expresses strong feeling.
An interjection usually appears at the beginning of a sentence.
An interjection can be followed by either a comma or an exclamation point, depending on how strong a feeling is expressed. PB. 242

24. Grammar Skills 413K Quotations Trans 4-20 PB 243
A direct quotation gives a speaker’s exact words.
Set off exact words with quotation marks.
Begin each quotation with a capital letter.
Place end punctuation inside the quotation marks.
Use commas to separate most quotation from the rest of the sentence.

26. Quotations quotations quotations quotations Quotation marks
are use for exact
words said.
quotations
quotations
“I like you,” said Tom.
Tom said, “I like you.”’
“I like pizza,” said Mr. A, “and watching movies.”
Pay attention to where the commas are.

27. Grammar Skills 413K Quotations Trans 4-20 PB 243
When the speaker’s name comes first, use a comma before the quotation.
If a quotation is two sentences, use a period after the speaker’s name and capitalize the first word of the second sentence.
Begin a new paragraph each time the speaker changes

28. Punctuating Quotations 413L
Good writers are careful to punctuate quotation correctly.
ex. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” said President Roosevelt.
corrected: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” said President Roosevelt.
PB 244

29. Quotations (cont) Rafael said, “Can we play now?”
Remember: comma goes outside, and capitalize the beginning, and punctuation goes inside.
“I like to eat ice cream,” said Joanna, “and watch t.v.”
With continuing quotes remember to not capitalize second part, and pay attention to the comma placement.

30. Writing Skills 413M A How-to Paragraph Trans 4-21 PB 245

31. Using Order Words 413N
Trans 4-22
PB 246

32. Grammar Skills 413Q Action Verbs and Direct Objects
An action verb tells what the subject of a sentence does or did. For example, Yang listens in the hall. They drove away.
A direct object is a noun or a pronoun in the complete predicate that receives the action of the verb. It answers the question What? or Whom? For example, Paul looked at the dinosaur. Third Sister thanked her mother. She thanked her.

33. Direct Objects
Direct Objects

34. Verbs verb participles verbs regular verbs verbs verbs irregualr verbs
verb tenses

35. Linking Verbs, Verb Tenses, and Subject Agreement 413R
A linking verb links the subject with a word in the predicate that names or describes the subject. A linking verb does not show action. ex. is, am, was, were, are
Some verbs can be either linking verbs or action verbs. The visitors looked at the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs looked strange.
A present tense verb shows action that happens now. Paul blushes.

36. Subjects and Predicates
Subject is who or what
the sentence is about
subject
predicate
The predicate is
what the subject
did or has done or
is doing.
subject
verb
agreement

37. Linking Verbs, Verb Tenses, and Subject Agreement (cont) 413R
A present tense verb and its subject must agree in number. To form the present tense of most verbs that have a singular subject, add s or es. Do not add s or es if the subject is plural or I or you. ex. The child runs. The children run.
To form the past tense of most verbs add –ed.
A future tense verb shows action is going to happen, use will or shall

38. Spelling Test 1. covered 2. directing 3. bragging 4. amusing
5. offered
6. planned
7. rising
8. deserved
9. visiting
10. mixed
11. swimming
12. sheltered
13. resulting
14. spotted
15. suffering
16. arrested
17. squeezing
18. ordered
19. decided
20. hitting

39. Challenge Words
rehearsing
shredded
anticipated
scalloped
entertaining

40. Study Guide Question Compare and contrast Word ending –ed, -ing
Double consonants
Classifying
Prefixes
Interjections
Quotations
Verbs
Direct objects
Subject verb agreement