Boom Town Day 3

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Boom TownDay 3

• Written by Sonia Levitin
• Illustrated by John Sandford
• Skill Realism and Fantasy
• Genre Historical Fiction

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Question of the Day

• How do towns and cities grow?

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Words to Know

• boom
• business
• coins
• fetched
• laundry
• mending
• pick
• skillet
• spell

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• More Words to Know
• bustle
• nuggets
• prospector

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• boom
• having fast growth

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business work done to earn a living
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coins round pieces of metal used as money
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fetched went and got something
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laundry a room or building where clothes are
washed and ironed
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mendingsewing that repairs a hole or tear
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• pick
• a tool with a heavy metal bat pointed at one or
  both ends, having a long, wooden handle

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Skillet a type of frying pan
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Spell a period of time
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Small Group

• Read Boom Town, pages 28 36.

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Reader Response

• Open for Discussion Look back at the story and
  talk about the businesses you see in Boom Town.
  What new business would you start in Boom Town?
• At the beginning of the story, Amanda was bored.
  How do the author and the artist show a change in
  Amanda? Think Like an Author
• This story is fiction, but it could have
  happened. What might the author have done to make
  it a fantasy? Realism and Fantasy
• What do you know or what have you read about
  starting a business? How did that help you as you
  read this story? Prior Knowledge
• If Amanda were older, she might be elected Mayor
  of the boom town. Write some sentences that tell
  why she would be good at this job. Use words from
  the Words to Know list and from the story.
  Vocabulary

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Selection Test

• Do you best- work carefully!
• You can use your book!

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Fluency

• Model Read aloud p. 21. Have students notice how
  you identify and read every word correctly
  without omitting any words. Practice as a class
  by doing three choral readings.

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• Economists separate all economic activities into
  goods and services. Boom Town depicts both goods
  and services.Goods are things that are made.
  Services are jobs that people perform to help
  other people. A miller produces flour. A trading
  post sells supplies. Flour and supplies are
  goods. A cooper makes and repairs wooden barrels.
  The barrels are goods. Barrel repair, however, is
  a service.
• Boom Town also shows how producers (people who
  provide goods and services) and consumers (people
  who buy goods and services) depend on each other.
  For instance, when miners prospect for gold, they
  engage in production-related activities. At other
  times, miners are consumers, dependent on other
  businesses for goods and services.

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GrammarDay 3
Objectives Define and identify sentences.
Distinguish between sentences and fragments.
Use sentences in writing.
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• A log cabin kept the famly warm
• A log cabin kept the family warm.
• The rodes was muddy in winter.
• The roads were muddy in winter.

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Guided Practice

• A sentence begins with a capital letter, ends
  with an end punctuation mark, and tells a
  complete thought.
• Review something you have written to see if you
  used complete sentences.

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SpellingDay 3
Objective Spell VCCV words, which usually have
short vowel sounds.
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Make a Sign

• Write a sign using at least five of the spelling
  words.
• The sign can be an advertisement, a warning, or a
  note for a friend.

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Frequently Misspelled Words

• then
• and
• with
• was
• These words may seem easy to spell, but they are
  misspelled by third-graders a lot!

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GREAT JOB!