2. What About Me? By Ed Young THIS WEEK STUDENTS WILL LEARN Comprehension Skill Sequence Comprehension Strategy Summarize Vocabulary Strategy Word Structure Spelling Plurals –s, -es Study Skill Alphabetical Order Kathy Kassidy, Westside

3. Guided Reading Books

4. Sequence Sequence is the order in which things happen in a story—what happens first, next, and last. Sometimes a writer uses clue words like first, next, and in the morning. Sometimes a writer does not. Then you can tell the order by picturing in your mind what is happening. FirstNextThenLast

5. How would we get what we needed without money?

6. Our Story takes place on the continent of Asia in the country of India India

7. Can you find India on this map? IndiaIndia

8. In our story thread, goats and rugs are very important in the telling of this story. Let's go to India to learn more.

17. Goat Eating

18. Eating Goats

19. Goat pens

20. Goat hair blankets, tents, rugs, pillows, make-up brushes, brushes for horses, purses, and fake dogs.

27. Concept Vocabulary barter to trade by exchanging one kind of goods for other goods without using money exchange to give something to someone in return for something else; trade precious having great value

28. If it is not it may be a fantasy.

29. carpenter carpetmaker knowledge marketplace merchant plenty straying thread carpintero alfombrista conocimiento mercado comerciante mucho descarriando hilo

30. carpenter someone whose work is building and repairing things made of wood carpintero

31. carpetmaker a person who makes carpet and rugs for floors alfombrista

32. knowledge what you know conocimiento

33. marketplace a place where people meet to buy and sell things mercado

34. merchant someone who buys and sells goods for a living comerciante

35. plenty a full supply mucho

36. straying wandering descarriando

37. thread a thin string made of strands of cotton, silk, wool, or nylon, spun and twisted together hilo

38. stunned thoroughly shocked or confused

39. wandered someone who travels aimlessly from place to place

40. Plurals 1.-s or -es to most words 2. Add -s to most words: plants. 3. Add -es to words that end in ch, sh, or ss: inches. 4. Change y to i and add es to most words that end with y: pennies. 5. Creating plurals sometimes causes the spelling of a word to change. A plural can end in either the /s/ or /z/ sound.

41. Use your vocabulary words with the poster.