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Title: Poppas New Pants by Angela Shelf Medearis


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Poppas New Pants by Angela Shelf Medearis
  • Theme 6

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Awards
  • Parents Choice Award for Illustration

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Genre Realistic Fiction
  • A realistic fiction story is about realistic
    (could happen in real life, but they arent real)
    people, things, and events.
  • The plot-including events, problem, solution-is
    made up (fictional).

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Summary
  • When Poppas family tries to help him be
    shortening his new pair of pants before church in
    the morning, both George and Poppa end up with a
    big surprise.

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Background Information
  • Sometimes when we buy new clothes they dont fit
    exactly right. We may need to shorten pant legs
    or a skirt. This story is about good people
    helping each other by doing some sewing.

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Key Concept
  • helping out by mending clothes

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Key Vocabulary
  • draped
  • fabric
  • hem
  • mended
  • pattern
  • plaid
  • rustling

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draped
hung loosely in folds
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fabric
cloth
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hem
to fold back and sew down the edges
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mended
repaired by sewing
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pattern
a repeated design or decoration
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plaid
a pattern of stripes that cross each other
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rustling
quick, soft, fluttering sound
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Strategy Focus Predict/Infer
  • We predict/infer before we read to help us make a
    reasonable guess about what might happen.
  • This strategy helps our mind use prior knowledge
    and story clues to help us understand what will
    happen in the story.

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Strategy Focus Predict
Lets try it!
  • Look at page 283. Where do you
  • predict this story takes place?

or
After reading the first part of the story
(282-293), who do you think the ghost was?
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Comprehension Skill Focus Drawing Conclusions
  • When you draw conclusions, you use the clues from
    the story to help you figure out details that are
    not specifically stated in the story.
  • For example, the narrators name is not told to
    the reader, but by reading the story we can
    figure out-or draw the conclusion-that his name
    is George. We know this because when he and
    Poppa go into the store, the storekeeper says
    hello to Poppa and George.

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Graphic Organizer
Fill in the organizer with details from the story.
Conclusions Chart Page 295 Who was the big
white ghost?_____
_______________________________ Which
story clue helped you?_______
_______________________________
_______________________________
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Meet the Author
  • Angela Shelf Medearis was born in Virginia. Her
    family moved often,
  • though, because her father was in the Air
    Force. She says that at each new
  • place, "I knew there would always be a
    library, a friendly librarian, and
  • my favorite books there to greet me. It
    made a new school and new friends
  • much easier to deal with."
  • In grade school, Angela Shelf Medearis's
    teachers told her that she wrote
  • well. She was thirty years old, however,
    before she decided to try to earn
  • a living as a writer. She enjoys history,
    and spends a lot of time
  • researching African-American history for
    her books. As a bonus, her
  • research often leads to ideas for new
    books.
  • Many people are surprised to learn that
    Angela Shelf Medearis also writes cookbooks.
  • Kids sometimes send fan letters to this
    author. In her favorite letter a
  • child wrote, "Dear Mrs. Medearis, Thank you
    for telling us about being a
  • writer. I love your stories. When I grow
    up, I want to be a waitress."
  • Angela Shelf Medearis enjoys seeing movies
    and plays.
  • (from www.eduplace.com)

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Link to Houghton Mifflin
  • If you enjoyed reading Poppas New Pants and
    would like to check out some more information and
    activities, click below to go to
    www.eduplace.com, Houghton Mifflins web site.

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