2. Mom’s Best Friend 365O Genre: Nonfiction The true account of one family and their dog guide. Selection Summary: Leslie and her family learn to adjust to life without their mother when she is away training her new dog guide, Ursula.

3. Background 366A Remember this theme focuses on relationships between family members, friends, and others. We will read a nonfiction selection about a blind woman and her guide dog. Let’s read 366-367 to learn about training dogs to help people.

4. Phonics/Decoding 367A 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

6. Phonics/Decoding 367A I kept thinking I heard her whimpering for a game of catch. Help me figure out this word. I look for familiar parts, like wh, imp, er, ing. I blend those sounds. It sounds correct, and I read the sentence again.

7. Decoding Always use your phonics and decoding skills when reading words you don’t know.

8. Vocabulary 367A Trans. 4-9 PB 217 attachment: a feeling of fond connection between two beings braille: a system of writing in raised dots used by people without sight dog guide: a dog especially trained to lead people who are blind

9. instinct: a natural feeling that guides one to act in a certain way layout: the arrangement of something mastered: became expert in a skill or art mature: full-grown

10. Vocabulary 367A memorizing: learning by heart obedience: the condition of being ready to follow orders obstacles: things that get in one’s way

11. Reading Strategy 367B Monitor/Clarify As you read about Mom and her dog guide, Ursula, monitor your understanding of Ursula’s training. If necessary, reread and use the photographs to clarify. As I read I periodically check for my understanding. Sometimes I’ll read ahead to clarify something I didn’t understand. Remember to look the photographs, read ahead, or ask questions to help clarify.

13. Comprehension Skill 367C Trans 4-10 During your reading, note the details about the main characters. We will record details about the characters on the Graphic Organizer.

15. Comprehension Skills 391A Noting Details Trans 4-10 PB 218Trans 4-10 You must focus on details about the main characters and the steps they take. Pay attention to what happens before, during, and end of the story. By using details, it help you visualize characters, places, and events. (also pay attention to the character’s mood)

17. Information & Study Skills 391C Paraphrasing Paraphrasing is restating what someone has written or said in your own words, without changing the meaning. When paraphrasing: Use your own words State the info simply and clearly Include all important ideas and details.

18. Decoding Longer Words 391E Syllabication VV Pattern She judges her location from a radio playing music in the center of the pen. When 2 vowels appear in a word they usually make 1 sound, and are kept together when the word is divided into syllables. Ex. re-peat and ex-claim. However in the word ra-di-o, each vowel gets its own sound. Let’s look at the word obedience, unusual, diabetes, piano. Let’s decode these words. PB 222

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20. Phonics 391F Less Common Long e Spellings Recognizing the less common spellings that can stand for the long e sound can help you decode unfamiliar words. The letters ei, ey, i, ie, and y can stand for the long e sound. Help me with these words relieved, retrievers, machine, perfectly, received

21. Spelling 391G VV Pattern Poem, idea, create, diet, liar, diary, riot, area, giant, lion, radio, cruel, ruin, rodeo, science All of these words have the VV syllable pattern Divide words into syllables between the vowels In the word quiet it follows the same pattern because the qu is one sound /kw/ PB 419 Homework PB 223PB 223

22. Vocabulary 391G Analogies are Exit is to enter as destroy is to ________ Create Bark is to dog as roar is to _________ Lion Author is to book as poet is to _________ Poem Sweet is to sour as kind is to __________ PB 224

23. Vocabulary Skills Multiple-Meaning Words 391I Mom missed the dog even more. She missed the opposite curb and kept walking toward the traffic. The word missed does not mean the same in both sentences. Many words have more than one meaning. Usually find the meaning from the context.

24. Vocabulary Skills (cont) Multiple-Meaning Words 391J She wrote letters and sent pictures. The letters on the collar spell the dog’s name. She knows from the change in the sound of her footsteps. I carried loose change in my coat pocket. The trainer forged Ursula into a great dog guide. Mom and Ursula forged ahead in the crowd. Mom said to be patient. The dog is a patient at the veterinarian’s office. PB 226

25. Grammar Skills 391K Commas in a Series Trans 4-12 PB 227Trans 4-12 A series is a list of 3 or more items. Use commas to separate the items in a series. Put a comma after each item in the series except the last one. Use and or or before the last item in a series. PB 227

27. More Uses for Commas 391K Trans 4-13 Use a comma to set off the words, yes, no, and well when they appear as introductory words at the beginning of a sentence. Use commas to set off the names of people who are addressed directly.

28. Commas Use commas when listing things. Use a comma between a city and state.

29. Appositives 391L Commas also are used to set off appositives. Appositives are adjectives or adjectival phrases that directly follow or precede the nouns they modify. Ex. Ursula, Mom’s new dog guide, was skittish at first. PB 228

30. Improving Your Writing 391L Combining Sentences by Creating a Series. Good writers put items in series in one sentence rather than mentioning the items in separate sentences. Ana bought a dog dish. Then she purchased a sleeping blanket. After that, she bought a whistle. Improved: Ana bought a dog dish, a sleeping blanket, and a whistle.

31. Combining Sentences Stay away from choppy sentences. Combine sentences that are related.

32. Spiral Review 391Q Cause and Effect Cause: the reason something happens Effect: what happens as a result of the cause

34. Grammar 391R A verb phrase is made up of a main verb and a helping verb. The main verb shows action. The helping verb works with the main verb. The verb am, is, and are help other verbs show an action that is happening now. The verbs was, were, have, has, and had help other verbs show an action in the past.

35. Verbs Verbs show action or state of being. Helping verbs show when the action is taking place.

36. Verbs

37. Spelling Test 1. poem 2. idea 3. create 4. diary 5. area 6. giant 7. usual 8. radio 9. cruel 10. quiet 11. diet 12. liar 13. fuel 14. riot 15. actual 16. lion 17. ruin 18. trial 19. rodeo 20. science

38. Challenge Words appreciate variety enthusiastic realize eventually

39. Study Guide Monitor and clarify Noting details Paraphrasing Vv pattern Long e sound Multiple meaning Analogies Commas Appositive Combining sentences Cause and effect verbs