1. Gloria Who Might be My Best Friend
Grade Unit 1 Lesson 1
Friendship
Gloria Who Might be My Best Friend
By Nancy Moralez

2. Objectives: You will: recognize base words and inflectional endings.
Review short vowel sounds.
Spelling sound long /i/ i_e, _y, igh.
Develop fluency reading words and sentences.

3. Word Knowledge Day One kite five mine time high might right
tight fly cry why
What do these words have in common?
The /i/ sound and spelling i_e, igh, and _y

4. like liked liking try tried trying
happen happened happening
visit visited visiting
What do these words have in common?
Ending added to the base words.
What is the base word?
like, happen, visit

5. grass rags back black that
What do these words have in common?
The sound of /a/
What is the /k/ sound spelled with a /ck/?
Because of the short vowel sound.

6. I might try to fly a kite.
Why do you try not to cry?
I don’t like to fight.
Find the long /i/ spelled with _y.
try, fly, why
Find the sound spelled with igh.
might
Find the sound spelled with i_e
kite
What is the word I?
Pronoun

7. Objectives:
You will:
recognize base words and inflectional endings with the /i/ sound and –ed and -ing.
Use comprehension strategies such as making connections, predicting, and summarizing to construct meaning from story.
discuss personal reaction to the story
understand the selection vocabulary before reading using structural cues..

8. Discussion Strategy Use
How did you make connections?
Use prior knowledge and what you know or have experienced.
Where did you pause in the reading to summarize?
How did you make, confirm, and revise predictions as you read?
What predictions did you make?

9. Vocabulary
Tease
Lonely
Seriously
Collection
Stiff
Probably

10. tease If you have a girl for a friend, people find out and tease you.
Sometimes my brother and sister tease me when I am trying to work.
Look the word up in the dictionary.
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11. Tease To make fun of someone, to annoy continuously
Part of Speech: Verb
Sentence Page 14
Antonym :comfort, ease
Synonym: annoy, harass

12. lonely I was walking down the street feeling lonely.
I thought the new student looked lonely at the lunch table, so I sat down across from her to talk.
Look the word up in the dictionary.
Page 435

13. Lonely Feeling sad or being alone Part of Speech: Adjective
Sentence Page 14
Synonym: forlorn, lonesome
Antonym: accompanied

14. Seriously
Grandmother seriously thought about my question before she answered it because she wanted to be sure she gave me the right answer.
But she just looked at me very seriously and said, “It takes practice,” and then I liked her.
Look it up in the dictionary.
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15. Seriously Thoughtfully, Sincerely Part of Speech: Adverb
Sentence Page 16
Synonym: actively, earnestly, for real
Antonym: unserious, trifling, trivial

16. Collection I am going to add this new stamp to my collection.
I showed her my rock collection.
Look it up in the dictionary.
page146

17. Collection
Similar things gathered together to study or to show to others
Part of Speech:Noun
Sentence Page 18
Antonym : disperse, distribute
Synonym: accumulation, assortment

18. Stiff
The ice on the flowers made them so stiff they were not moveable.
My neck got stiff from looking at the kite.
Dictionary
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19. Stiff Something not easily bent or not flexible
Part of Speech: Adjective
Sentence Page 24
Antonym :
flexible, bendable
Synonym:
rigid, unbending

20. Probably
It is cloudy and the sky is getting darker, so it will probably rain today.
Probably they were still flying higher and higher in the wind.
Dictionary
page587

21. Probably Most likely to happen Part of Speech: Adverb Sentence Page 25
Antonym :
improbably, unconceivable
Synonym:
conceivable, likely, possible

22. Jerked He jerked hard on the bell rope to make the bell ring.
3rd grade Unit 1 Friendship
Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend

23. jerked
Pulled quickly

24. squawked
gave a noisy shrill or harsh cry

25. Skill Words Mustache: Hair growing on a man’s upper lip Minute:
One of the 60 equal periods of time that make up an hour

26. Skill Words Strawberry:
Small, juicy,red fruit of a plant that grows close to the ground
Squawked:
Make a loud,harsh sound
Garage:
Place where cars are kept under a cover

27. Background
This story is a realistic fiction about a child whose family relocated to a new city.
Some of the elements of realistic fiction are:
Characters behave as people do in real life.
The setting of the story is a real place or could be a real place.
The events in the story could happen in real life.

28. Student Observation Clues Problems Wonderings
The title says “Might Be,” laughing Will Julian and Gloria be
maybe Julian isn’t sure what friends?
will happen.

29. First Read pages 14-19
We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies:
Making connections
Predicting
Summarizing

30. Language Arts, Day 1 Spelling: The short /a/ sound, pretest
Vocabulary Skill Words:
Mustache minute garage strawberry squawked

31. Spelling pre test
path lamp damp crash plant math trash stamp hatbox have grass rags back black that
Write the words 5 times each.

32. Objectives: Day 2 You will:
Understand what nouns are and the capitalization of proper nouns.
Develop fluency reading words and sentences.
Use comprehension strategies such as making connections, predicting, and summarizing to construct meaning from story.
discuss personal reaction to the story

33. Day 2 word knowledge Kite five mine time High might right tight
Fly cry why
Like liked liking try tried trying
Happen happened happening
Visit visited visiting
Grass rage back black that
Make sentences with 5 of the words, and use: Who? What? Where? How? To extend the sentences.

34. First Read pages 20-25
We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies:
Making connections
Predicting
Summarizing

35. Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text, Day 1
With your groups, please discuss the following questions:
Why Julian was worried about being friends with Gloria?
Why Julian changed his mind?
How Julian and Gloria started becoming friends?
What did Gloria probably wish for?
Post any new questions or information you may come up with on the Concept/Question Board.

36. Language Arts Nouns
Nouns name everything. Nouns are words that name people, places, things, and ideas
Example: boy zoo balloons time
Common nouns name any person, place thing, or idea. Common nouns start with a lowercase letter
Example: girl , park, skyscraper, nationality

37. Proper nouns name specific persons, places, things, or ideas
Proper nouns name specific persons, places, things, or ideas. They start with a capital letter.
Example: Megan, Yellowstone Park, Sears Tower, Cuban.

38. Identify the common and proper nouns. Workbook page 2
A girl named Gloria moved from Newport.
Proper: Gloria and Newport common: girl
Kindness and honesty are important to friendship.
Common: kindness, honesty and friendship
Ann Cameron wrote this story and Ann Strugnell did the illustrations.
Proper: Ann Cameron and Ann Strugnell. Common: story, illustrations
A dictionary is a useful book.
Common: dictionary, book

39. Objectives: Day 3 You will:
Understand what nouns are and the capitalization of proper nouns.
Develop fluency reading words and sentences.
Use comprehension strategies such classify and categorize
Review the /j/ sound spelled _dge.
Review short vowel sounds

40. Day 3 Planet Africa practice eggs pencils
Closet robin kitchen inside copy
Bottom cannot upset until hundred
What do these words have in common?
What are the short vowel sounds?
What sound does the e in planet make?
What sound does the last a in Africa make?

41. hedge ridge dodge fudge judge
What do these words have in common?
J sound
What letters make the j sound in these words?
-dge
What is the vowel sound before the _dge?
Short sound

42. Anna was upset when she lost her doll.
The robin sang a pretty song.
Identify words with short vowel sounds.
Anna song upset doll robin
The eggs were small and pale blue.
This sentence is from the story. Identify words with the short vowel sounds.
Eggs and

43. Day 3 Second Read pages 14-19
We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies:
Classify and Categorize: Readers put like things or ideas together in order to make new ideas and information easier to understand

44. “Second Read Day 3 Comprehension Skill: Classify and Categorize
As we read the story a second time, let’s fill in the chart.
Furniture
Wishes
The natural world
Things birds do
Things Friends do together

45. Language Arts Write sentences with the following nouns in them: book
school
airplane,
Yellowstone National Park
beach
Florida

46. Objectives: Day 4 You will:
Understand what nouns are and the capitalization of proper nouns.
Develop fluency reading words and sentences.
Use comprehension strategies such classify and categorize
Review the /j/ sound spelled _dge.
Review short vowel sounds

47. Oral Language Planet Africa practice eggs pencils
Closet robin kitchen inside copy
Bottom cannot upset until hundred
hedge ridge dodge fudge judge
From the list give clues for the word you choose Example:
You use this to write.________
I like ____for breakfast. Then cross out the word used. Clap out syllables after the word is used.

48. Dictation line 1: ________ ________ ________
Challenge Word: ___________________
Sentence:_________________________
_________________________________

49. Day 4 Second Read pages 20-25
We are going to read our selection using these comprehension strategies:
Classify and Categorize: Readers put like things or ideas together in order to make new ideas and information easier to understand

50. “Second Read Day 4 Comprehension Skill: Classify and Categorize
As we read the story a second time, let’s fill in the chart.
Julian’s Things
Things needed to make a kite
How to make wishes
How to fly a kite
Things Friends can share

51. Checking Comprehension
Why is Julian worried about being friends with a girl?
Because people might tease him,
Why does Julian decide he wants to be friends with Gloria?
Because she is his age and she is nice to him.
How do Julian and Gloria start to become friends?
They talk to each other. Julian shares with Gloria and shows her a bird’s. They make a kite together and make wishes

52. Day 5… General Review and test time