Centerfield Ballhawk

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Centerfield Ballhawk

• by Matt Christopher
• illustrated by Larry Johnson

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Listening ComprehensionListening to Understand

• What accomplishment of Tony Gwynns does this
  article focus on? MAIN IDEA
• What is one secret to his success?
  DETAILS
• Do you think Tony Gwynn did the right thing by
  stating in San Diego even though he could have
  made more money by changing teams? Why or why
  not? RESPOND AND PROVE IT

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Build Background

• Baseball Words
• Positions Equipment Parts of the Field
• pitcher bat pitchers mound
• catcher catchers mitt home plate
• infielder fielders glove infield

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Develop Concepts

• What are some activities you are good at?
• What are some activities that you need more
  practice doing?
• What could you tell someone who is disappointed
  that he or she isnt very good at something?

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Sequence Chart Preview With Picture Walk and
Predict
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Sequence Chart Preview With Picture Walk and
PredictWere Predictions Correct
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Vocabulary

• outfielder a ballplayer who catches in the
  outfield, the area outside of the baseball
  diamond.
• concentrate to give complete attention to to
  think hard about.
• depend to trust or count on someone to do
  something.
• ballhawk a nickname given to a ballplayer who
  is good at catching balls, especially ones that
  are hard to catch.
• vanish to go out of sight to pass from sight.
• fault guilt or responsibility for doing
  something wrong.

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Spelling

• 1. boots 2. grouped 15. afternoon
• 3. shook 4. school 16. journal
• 5. looked 6. hood 17. knew
• 7. choose 8. brook 18. know
• 9. zoomed 10. balloon 19. laughed
• 11.loose 12. soot 20. lets
• 13.understand 14. cartoon

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GenreRealistic Fiction

• Realistic fiction tells about characters and
  events that are like people and events in real
  life.
• Realistic means it COULD happen
• Fiction means it did NOT.

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Set Purpose

• AUTHORS PURPOSE IS TO
• gtinform
• gtentertain
• gtpersuade
• gtinstruct or give directions

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Summarizing

• Good readers are active readers who pay close
  attention to the setting, characters, and events
  of a selection.
• GET YOUR TRACKERS READY
• HERE WE GO!!!
• Be sure to pay attention to details so that we
  can summarize events later.

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Review Authors PurposeProve It with Story
Details

• AUTHORS PURPOSE IS TO
• gtinform
• gtentertain
• gtpersuade
• gtinstruct or give directions

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Summarize Retell the important parts in my own
words

• Setting
• Characters
• Events in order Sequence

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Sequence The order in which events happened

• Look for time ordered words
• First
• Next
• Then
• After that
• Finally
• Events that happened earlier (out of order)
• A few innings earlier

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Partner Summarize Activity

• Partner 1 Read page
• Partner 2 Summarize (tell the important
  information) of what was just read.
• OPTION
• Ask question that partner must answer correctly
  with book closed if they answer wrong they must
  reread.
• REPEAT

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Think Pair - Share
Where did the story take place? Who are the main
characters? What happened in the story?
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Partner Sequence Chart
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Guess the Covered Word

• In the bottom of the ninth inning, the Bobcats
  beat the Polar Bears, 6-5. The Bobcats can thank
  their talented ___________, Billy Arnold, for the
  win. Arnold knew he had to pay attention. He
  had to ____________ as a Polar Bears fly ball
  soared toward the fence in the outfield. The
  team could __________ on the ___________ to make
  the catch.
• The ball seemed to ___________in the bright
  light. If I missed, whose _________ would it be,
  the lights or mine? I stayed focused and I made
  the catch! stated Arnold.

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Conclusions Partner Activity
What I Know
Conclusion
Story Event
Jose and T.V. walked Off the field together
Mr. Mendez took a deep breath before Talking
about what has Happened since Joses Mother died.
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Reread with tape

• Get your trackers ready and follow along with the
  audiocassette tape.

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Antonyms

• Words that mean the opposite of each other are
  antonyms. NOT ALL WORDS have antonyms. Practice
  time . . .
• gtOur cats vanish at dinner time.
• gtLisa smiled as she watched the video.
• gtVictor was ashamed of the things he said.
• gtTran will finish his project on Thursday.

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Antonyms

• Write a brief conversation
• between two ball players in
• which they use at least
• three antonyms and three
• compound words.

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Synonyms
Words that mean the same as each other are
synonyms. Practice time . . . gtOur cats vanish
at dinner time. gtLisa smiled as she watched the
video. gtVictor was ashamed of the things he
said. gtTran will finish his project on Thursday.
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Compound Words Combining Words

• A compound word is two words joined together to
  make a longer word.
• Not all words can be joined (or combined)
  together to form a compound word.
• Time to get out the dictionary and locate 10
  compound words.
• If there is a space between words in the
  dictionary it is not a compound word.

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Cause / EffectReview from The Stories Julian
Tells

• Cause is Effect is
• because this happened the result
• I had never tried a I fell over
• Cartwheel before
• I ate too much ice cream I got sick

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Compare and ContrastObjective To understand
what comparing and contrasting are and how to tie
information together.

• Compare uses the word BOTH
• Jose and T.V. BOTH play baseball.
• Contrast uses the word BUT
• You can NOT use the word NOT in this sentence!
  
• Carmen is a .375 batter BUT Jose is a .250 batter.

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Prove Its

• STEP 1 Look up quote
• STEP 2 Write TRUE or FALSE
• STEP 3 Correct quote or rewrite
• STEP 4 Write page number
• STEP 5 Recheck your work
• Repeat until done
• Put information in SEQUENCE ORDER
• 1 happened first
• 5 happened last

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10 On Back of CRsCompound Words

• Base
• Hawk
• Ball
• Use these three words and combine as
• many other words with them to form a
• BUNCH of compound words.

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Vocabulary Workbook page 61

• 1. vanish
• 2. depend
• 3. fault
• 4. outfielder
• 5. concentrate
• 6. ballhawk
• 7. ballhawk
• 8. outfielder
• 9. vanish

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Spelling Workbook page 50

• 1. hood 5. cartoon
• 2. boots 6. brook
• 3. balloon 7. loose
• 4. school 8. understood
• 9. looked
• 12. grouped 10. shook
• 13. zoomed 11. choose
• 14. soot
• 15. afternoon

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SpellingPractice Book page 51

• 1. zoomed 7. grouped
• 2. soot 8. brook
• 3. boots 9. afternoon
• 4. school 10. hood
• 5. looked 11. understood
• 6. loose 12. cartoon