Angel Child, Dragon Child Third Grade: Open Court Unit: Friendship Angel Child, Dragon Child http://www.opencourtresources.com powerpoint by Jean Jordan Nathan Hale Elementary School New London, CT a presentation of Open Court Resources.com

Word Knowledge Day 1 Line 1: noses hands lessons crayons Line 2: hooks seeds books words Line 3: tilt tilted tilting wait waited waiting Line 4: bow bowed bowing Line 5: curve curved curving tackle tackled tackling Line 6: small smaller smallest tall taller tallest lines1-2 plural form -s id singular form lines 3-5 verbs inflectional endings - how they change the meaning of base word line 4 homograph - spelled the same but different meanings.origins story /ow/ line 5 silent e - change line 6 comparative and superlative line 7 /e/ spelled e Line 7: them send next bell edge

Word Knowledge Sentence 1: The American children tilted back their long noses, laughing. Sentence 2: I stood and bowed. Sentence 3: Her hands curved over my shoulders. Sentence 4: Friends like for you to send them letters in the mail. sentences 1-3 from the story verbs -ed, -ing endings plurals sentence 4 /e/ send, them, letters

Build Background What did you learn about friendship from the last story? In “Gloria Who Might Be My Friend”, we discussed what it’s like to move to a new place. What might it be like to move to a new country? Gloria and Julian’s friendship was unexpected. What other stories about surprising friendships do you know?

Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia. In 1957 the country was having a civil war. The United States became involved in it. Many Vietnamese people fled their country. They went to refugee camps, or traveled by boats to new places. Many families ended up separated. Nguyen (nōō yen) is the main character’s family name. Her given name (first name) is Hoa (hwä), which means “flower”. Ut (ōōt) is her nickname★ meaning youngest daughter. Quang (kwäng) is her younger brother and her older sister is Chi Hai (chē hī). Vietnamese people value family, therefore they put their family name (last name) before their given name. what are nicknames - usually affectionate term Hispanic people use both their father’s family name and mother’s family name hyphenated. talk about realistic fiction

Problems Wonderings Clues Before browsing talk about realistic fiction browse the first two pages Browse the focus question set purpose for reading

jangled Make a loud ringing noise

twittered chattered noisily, sounding like chirping birds

gleamed was bright and shiny

darted Moved or ran quickly from one place to another place

scrawled wrote quickly but not carefully

margins empty spaces at the edge of the page, above, below, to the left and right

Vocabulary His laughing eyes _________ liked watermelon seeds. I crayoned pictures in the _________. Somewhere a loud bell _________. The red haired boy _________ behind the dumpster. Raymond _________ my words in black squiggles. The round-eyed children _________.

Language Arts Spelling 1. deck 2. tent 3. spent 4. fence 5. head 6. dead 7. bread 8. desk 9. thread 10. sweater 11.edge 12. bell 13.next 14. send 15. them