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Unit 6, Week 2The Cricket in Times Square
  • 4th Grade
  • ONeal Elementary

2
Vocabulary Words
  • eavesdropping- listening to other people talking
    without letting them know you are listening
  • scuffling- sound of feet shuffling
  • wistfully- sweetly sad thoughtfully
  • jumble- confused mixture or condition a mess
  • logical-reasonable thoughtful
  • acquaintance- someone known or introduced
  • scornfully- angrily disapprovingly

3
Vocabulary
hatefully
longingly
angrily
reasonable
logical
sensible
thoughtfully
sadly
logical
  • Find synonyms for the following vocabulary
    words.....

thoughtful
messy
disapprovingly
Synonym scornfully wistfully jumble logical

4
Vocabulary Story Words
  • cricket- an insect, similar to a grasshopper,
    that makes a noise at night
  • brook- a small stream
  • liverwurst- a sausage made with ground liver
  • forlornly- sadly
  • leery- cautious, distrustful
  • theme- over all message or idea that the author
    wants the readers to understand
  • fantasy- a story with invented characters,
    settings, or other elements that could not exist
    in real life
  • colony- a group of animals or plants of the same
    kind living in a particular place.
  • echolocation- bouncing sound waves off objects,
    to fly around.
  • insecticides- are chemicals used to kill insects.

5
Vocabulary Words In Contextjumble logical
acquaintance scuffling scornfully
wistfully eavesdropping
  • 1. Barbara learned our secrets by _________ on
    our conversations.
  • 2. She is not a good friend she is more like an
    __________.
  • 3. Grandma _________ told stories of her happy
    girlhood.
  • 4. I heard the raccoon ________ along the
    driveway.
  • 5. It didnt seem _________ that wild animals
    would wander the city.
  • 6. The animals nest was a jumble of fur,
    feathers, and dried grass.
  • 7. He glanced _______________________ at the
    rowdy children, saying that he did not want to be
    disturbed.
  • Practice Context Clues

6
Vocabulary Context Clues
  • Paragraph Clues Explain that when you see an
    unfamiliar word, you can use the context clues in
    the surrounding paragraph to help you determine
    the words meaning. You may find that the
    paragraph contains an antonym, a synonym, or
    further description of the unfamiliar word.
    Sometimes you will have to read the entire
    paragraph to find the clue.
  • Read the paragraph from The Cricket in Times
    Square that begins with Inside the drain
    pipeon page 697. Then find the clues in the
    paragraph that would help you define the word
    jumble.

7
Phonics
  • Homophones are words that sound alike but are
    spelled differently and have different
    definitions.
  • One reason that there homophones in English is
    that there are often different ways to spell the
    same sound.
  • Practice
  • Homophone Quiz
  • Homophone Matching
  • Homophone Practice

8
Phonics Homophones
Word Homophone Use each in a sentence.
wade
tale
doe
pail
flour
sun
9
Fluency Repeated Reading...........Punctuation
  • Paying close attention to punctuation will help a
    good reader use proper intonation and expression.
  • At first I wasnt too frightened, said
    Chester. After all, I thought, they probably
    come from New Canaan or some other nearby town.
    Theyll have to unpack the basket sooner or
    later. Little did I know! He shook his head
    and sighed. I could feel the basket being
    carried into a car and riding somewhere and then
    being lifted down. That must have been the
    railroad station.

10
Genres
  • Fantasy is story with invented characters,
    settings, or other elements that could not exist
    in real life.
  • Editorials are articles printed in newspapers
    and magazines that express the opinions of the
    writer.

11
Analyze Story Structure Theme
  • Authors of fiction organize stories in various
    ways. The author of a fantasy story can help
    readers understand the theme by using structure.
  • Identify the theme of a story, you should look
    for clues that tell you what the message about
    life the author is trying to express.
  • What happens when a county cricket winds up in
    a big city?

12
Comprehension Summarize
  • To summarize means to tell something in a brief
    and organized way.
  • A summary of a story includes the main idea and
    supporting details. Sometime a storys main idea
    is not stated it may be implied by the details.
  • Practice

13
Text Feature Advertisements
  • Advertisements try to persuade people to buy a
    product or service.
  • Advertisements contain text and pictures.
  • Advertisements give important facts, details, or
    descriptions about the product or service.
  • Advertisements include persuasive words and
    techniques that are designed to catch the
    readers attention.
  • What makes the bat house being advertised on
    page 713 unique enough to purchase.

14
Reflection Day 1
  • Predict what you think The Cricket in Times
    Square will be about
  • Predict if you think the animals on page 693 will
    get along well together and why?

15
Reflection Day 2
  • What is the meaning of darted on page 694? What
    context clues helped you define the word? Use
    two details or examples from the story to support
    your answer.

16
Reflection Day 3
  • What are two ways that the City Mouse in The
    Country Mouse and the City Mouse is the
    same/different from Chester Cricket in The
    Cricket in Times Square? Use details and/or
    examples from the story to support your answer.

17
Reflection Day 4
  • Summarize
  • Retell, in your own words, a short summary on
    the following Famous Missourians
  • Meriwether Lewis
  • William Clark
  • Mary Easton Sibley
  • John Berry Meacham
  • George Washington Carver
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Mark Twain
  • Harry S Truman
  • Thomas Hart Benton (Painter)

18
Reflection Day 5
  • List two additional keywords or phrases that you
    might use to research information about bats.
  • Example Nocturnal Animal Facts
  • 1.
  • 2.

19
Theme.....???
Clue THEME? Main Idea New Title
Clue
20
Theme...Main Idea....Fantasy....
  • Title
  • Fantasy

21
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