Unit 3: Lesson 6

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Roxaboxen

• Unit 3 Lesson 6

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Day 1 Word Knowledge

• Line 1 buried belonged looked jeweled
• Line 2 white whitest big biggest
  old oldest
• Line 3 shelf shelves elf elves
  leaf leaves
• Line 4 amber amethyst sea-green
• Line 5 grave steer kind
  light club
• Line 6 became like reach
  stone jewels
• Sentence 1 Roxaboxen had always been there and
  must have belonged to others, long before.
• Sentence 2 When Marian dug up a tin box filled
  with round black pebbles everyone knew what is
  was it was a buried treasure.
• Sentence 3 Charles made his of the biggest
  stones.
• Sentence 4 A precious stone, like a diamond, is
  just one of many jewels.

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What do these words have in common?

• buried belonged looked jeweled
• These words all have the suffix ed
• What happens to a verb when ed is added?
• Use each in a sentence.

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What do these words have in common?

• white whitest big
• biggest old oldest
• These words are superlatives.
• Name some other superlatives.
• smallest, cleanest, shiniest, craftiest

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What do these words have in common?

• shelf shelves elf elves
• leaf leaves
• These are all words that end in f with a plural
  ending added.
• What is the spelling change that takes place when
  a word ends in f and you add a suffix.

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What do these words have in common?

• amber amethyst sea-green
• These words are all the names of colors, some
  perhaps unfamiliar to you. We will look for
  these colors in the paintings as we read.

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What do these words have in common?

• grave steer kind
• light club
• These words are all homographs-words that are
  spelled the same but have different meanings.
• What are some meanings of each word?

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What do these words have in common?

• became like reach
• stone jewels
• These words are found in Roxaboxen and review
  the long-vowel sound spelling patterns.

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What do these words have in common?

• Sentence 1 Roxaboxen had always been there and
  must have belonged to others, long before.
• Sentence 2 When Marian dug up a tin box filled
  with round black pebbles everyone knew what is
  was it was a buried treasure.
• Sentence 3 Charles made his of the biggest
  stones.
• These sentences are found in the story. Can you
  identify the words with the suffix ed?

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What do these words have in common?

• Sentence 4 A precious stone, like a diamond, is
  just one of many jewels.
• Which words have the /o/ sound?
• The /i/ sound?
• The /oo/ sound?

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Prior Knowledge

• What do you know about playing make-believe?
• What sorts of things do you imagine when you are
  playing?
• How does imagination make playing more fun?

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Build Background

• How would you create an entirely new society?
  How would the society be ruled, what would the
  currency be, and how would the tasks be divided?
• This story is based on peoples memories of their
  childhood. The author researched her mothers
  drawings, interviewed relatives, and reviewed
  their maps and memories and mementos of
  Roxaboxen.

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Browse

• Let s read aloud the title, the author and
  illustrator.
• Now lets browse the first page or two of the
  story.
• What might this story tell about imagination?
• Look at the illustrations in the selections.
• Make sure you make predictions about the text to
  help monitor your comprehension.
• Look for clues, problems, such as unfamiliar
  words (trans. 46)

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Roxaboxen
ford
traced
mayor
decorated
blossomed
bordering
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ford to cross by wading

• After that you had to ford a river to reach
  Roxaboxen.

During the hike, we had to ford a creek that was
knee high.

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traced formed carefully, to sketch

• A town of Roxaboxen began to grow, traced in
  lines of stone Main Street first, edged with
  the whitest ones, and then the houses.

The border of the garden was traced with pansies.
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mayor the chief elected official of a city

• Marian was mayor, of course, that's just the way
  she was.

The town elected a new mayor last week.
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decorated added ornamentation adorned

• Each year when the cactus blossomed, they
  decorated the grave with flowers.

The students decorated the room for the party.
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blossomed Bloomed, produced flowers

• And spring came, and the ocotillo blossomed, and
  everybody sucked the honey from its flowers, and
  everybody built new rooms, and everybody decided
  to have jeweled windows.

Our plum tree blossomed this spring.
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bordering to be lying on the edge of

• She could see the white stones bordering Main
  Street, and there where she could see her house
  the desert glass still glowed amethyst, amber,
  and sea-green.

There was a river bordering the town where we
lived.
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Focus Question

• Have you ever imagined that the playground, your
  background, or your bedroom is a different place?
• What places do you imagine they are?
• What do you do in your imaginary worlds?

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Asking Questions

• Why did the person telling this story call
  Roxaboxen a special place?
• What made it special? Who can me find clues to
  answer this question?

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Making Connections

• Good readers make connections with what they read
  to remind them of what they already know about
  something or about how they feel.
• I can remember playing with my friends in my
  neighborhood and making up special places. Who
  else has other connections to the story that they
  would like to share?

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Making Connections

• I think I know why Marian is the mayor of
  Roxaboxen. The story says nobody cared because
  thats they way she was. I know kids like
  Marian. They always volunteer and like to be in
  charge of things. I think Marian likes to be in
  charge, too.

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Monitoring and Clarifying

• This part of the story talks about the children
  having cars and going to jail for speeding. But
  I know that theyre only children-who shouldnt
  be driving cars!
• Of course, they didnt really have cars.
• Its all part of their make-believe world.
• It is important that I clarify confusing things
  so that you understand what youre reading.

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Monitoring and Clarifying

• Im not sure what a bridle is. I guess I should
  read this part again.
• It says the kids need a bridle and a stick. The
  stick is probably the horse. I guess a bridle
  is something that goes on the horse.

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Making Connections

• I wondered why Roxaboxen did not end when the
  children grew up.
• When I read on, I saw that it lived on in the
  childrens memories.
• Does anyone have connections to the story?

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Making Connections

• Charles came back to Roxaboxen when he was old
  and found a pebble that reminded him of
  Roxaboxen.
• Does anyone have something that reminds of
  somewhere they have been?

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Discussion

• Why did the children invent the town?
• What was the town they invented like?
• What did they do in the town?
• What happened to the place?
• What made the place special?
• How does it connect to imagination?
• What did you learn that is new?
• What are you still wondering?

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Sensory Adjectives

• What is a sensory adjective?
• A sensory adjective tells how things look, feel,
  smell, taste, and sound.

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Language Arts
Day 1

• Contractions
• An apostrophe is used to replace a letter or
  letters.
• do not drops the 2nd o to become
• dont
• she is drops the i to become
• shes
• it is drops the i to become
• its
• Lets practice contractions more by completing
  Comprehension Workbook p. 64-65

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Day 1 Verb Tenses
Language Arts

• There are 3 kinds of verbs
• -action, being, and having
• Each has a time reference to past, present, or
  future.
• Identify the verb and tell whether it is in the
  past, present, or future?
• The orchestra played Beethovens stirring Ninth
  Symphony.
• The string quartet plays Mozart beautifully.
• This weekend, Midori will play Mendelsohns
  moving violin concerto.

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Language Arts

• Regular nouns
• desk
• book
• lunch
• girl
• lady

Singular
Plural
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Language Arts
Day 2 Review Articles

• Remember articles functions as noun signals they
  tell you a noun is coming.
• What are the 2 kinds of articles?
• definite (the) and indefinite (a/an)
• Tell which indefinite article, a or an, should
  precede it.
• _____ scholar
• _____ actress
• _____ theater
• _____ outfit
• _____ kingdom
• _____ evening

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Day 1 Articles
Language Arts

• Definite articles signal a particular person,
  place, or thing.
• Indefinite articles signal any person, place, or
  thing.
• Who can identify the indefinite articles? Notice
  the spelling difference.
• 1. An imagination is a powerful thing to use.
• (An and a are the indefinite articles.)
• 2. A sense of wonder is an important part of
  using an imagination.
• (A and an are the indefinite articles.)
• Lets practice using articles in our
  Comprehension Workbook p. 88-89

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Day 2 Word Knowledge

• Line 1 buried belonged looked jeweled
• Line 2 white whitest big biggest
  old oldest
• Line 3 shelf shelves elf elves
  leaf leaves
• Line 4 amber amethyst sea-green
• Line 5 grave steer kind
  light club
• Line 6 became like reach
  stone jewels
• Sentence 1 Roxaboxen had always been there and
  must have belonged to others, long before.
• Sentence 2 When Marian dug up a tin box filled
  with round black pebbles everyone knew what is
  was it was a buried treasure.
• Sentence 3 Charles made his of the biggest
  stones.
• Sentence 4 A precious stone, like a diamond, is
  just one of many jewels.

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What do these words have in common?

• grave steer kind
• light club
• These words are all homographs-words that are
  spelled the same but have different meanings.
• Use a word in a sentence. Then someone else use
  another meaning of the word in a new sentence.

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Point of View

• In first-person narrative, the writer tells the
  story as if they are a character in the story.
• Clue words I, me, mine, we, our, ours.
• In third-person narrative, the writer tells the
  story as if the storyteller were not in the
  story.
• Clue words he, him, she, they, and theirs.

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Checking Comprehension

• Who uses their imagination in this story?
• How do they use imagination?
• How do we know that Roxaboxen was important to
  the children?
• How does this selection contribute to your
  understanding of the unit theme Imagination?

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Point of View

• Generally in a story first-person or third-person
  point of view is used.
• The indicators of first-person point of view are
  that the person telling the story is involved in
  the action and uses pronouns like I, me, my,
  mine, we, us, and our.
• In third-person point of view, the person telling
  the story is not involved in the actions but is
  reporting them. This point of view uses
  third-person pronouns like he/him, she/her, and
  they/them.

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Name of Story
Clues
Point of View
Through Grandpas Eyes

• Let s do Comprehension p.86-87

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Word Sorting

• What vowel sound do these words have?
• school later leader union
• rowboat rider

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Vocabulary

• bakery
• What is the base word?
• What some other words in this family?
• Lets do Spelling p.70

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Sensory Adjectives

• How can give me some sensory adjectives?
• A sensory adjective tells how things look, feel,
  smell, taste, and sound.

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Language Arts
Day 1

• Contractions
• An apostrophe is used to replace a letter or
  letters.
• do not drops the 2nd o to become
• dont
• she is drops the i to become
• shes
• it is drops the i to become
• its
• What are some other contractions?

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Day 1 Verb Tenses
Language Arts

• There are 3 kinds of verbs
• -action, being, and having
• Each has a time reference to past, present, or
  future.
• Identify the verb and tell whether it is in the
  past, present, or future?
• We walked to school.
• I am teaching you language arts skills.
• We are going to Ireland in April.

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Language Arts

• Name some things you like.

Singular
Plural
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Language Arts
Day 2 Review Articles

• Remember articles functions as noun signals they
  tell you a noun is coming.
• What are the 2 kinds of articles?
• definite (the) and indefinite (a/an)
• Tell which indefinite article, a or an, should
  precede it.
• A house is _______ expensive purchase. The
  moon is _________ lovely sight to see.

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Day 3 Word Knowledge

• Line 1 bigger biggest littlest
• Line 2 promote project
  uncomfortable unsuitable
• Line 3 involvement refreshments outlines
  outcast
• Line 4 waiting whooping stamping calmly
  naturally
• Sentence 1 The biggest tiger calmly waited to
  be fed.
• Sentence 2 She prepared the refreshments.
• Sentence 3 Oh, the raids were fierce, loud with
  whooping and the stamping of horses.
• How many vowels are in each word? How many
  consonants are between the vowels? Put a slash
  between the syllables.

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Meet the Author/Illustrator
Setting Pictures
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Response Journal

• Roxaboxen is
• The children used their imaginations in
  Roxaboxen
• This story is like The Tree House because
• Tell about a game you have made up?

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Spelling

• Spelling p. 72-73

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Vocabulary

• treasure
• What is treasure?
• money, riches, jewels
• Find another definition in the dictionary.
• To cherish something

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Sensory Adjectives

• A sensory adjective tells how things look, feel,
  smell, taste, and sound.
• The falling snow was cold and silent.
• Cold, touch
• Silent, sound

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Language Arts
Day 2 Review Articles

• Remember articles functions as noun signals they
  tell you a noun is coming.
• What are the 2 kinds of articles?
• definite (the) and indefinite (a/an)
• Tell which indefinite article, a or an, should
  precede it.
• An anteater catches the ants.
• What are the articles?

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Day 1 Verb Tenses
Language Arts

• There are 3 kinds of verbs
• -action, being, and having
• Each has a time reference to past, present, or
  future.
• Identify the verb and tell whether it is in the
  past, present, or future?
• I went to the store, but I dont have any money,
  so I will have to go back tomorrow.

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Language Arts

• Find the singular and plural nouns.
• Tara only has one dog and one fish, but Jacob has
  two dogs and three fish.

Singular
Plural