Read Aloud: Listening Comprehension  Today I will read a Poem  Poetry May have rhythm and rhyme. Create feelings and pictures in listeners’ minds.  Listen for enjoyment as I read the poem, Something Told the Wild Geese. One purpose for listening is to picture what the poet has written about through descriptive words.

What did you feel as you listened to the poems? Turn and talk to your partner. (2) What do these two poems have in common? Turn and talk to your partner. (1)

Discussion Why didn’t the leaves turn color during the time that the stranger was staying at the Baileys’ farm?

Focus Skill: Drawing Conclusions An author does not always explain everything in a story. Sometimes you must put together story details with what you know to understand what you are reading. This is called drawing conclusions. Story DetailsWhat I KnowConclusion

To draw a conclusion, readers use information from the story along with what they know from real life. Drawing conclusions helps readers understand what happens in a story, and why.

Time to Practice: First, turn to page 80 in your Practice book. Then, read the story with your partner. Finally, we will draw some conclusions from what you read.

The paragraph says: The sky is clear and blue. The soil is dry. We know: A blue sky means clear weather. Soil gets dry without rain. You can conclude: The weather has been dry. !!TRY #2 ON YOUR OWN!!

Story Details What You Know Conclusion Farmer Morse Seems sad that his corn is not Knee-high Crops need water to grow. Corn plants grow very tall. The corn has not grown enough, because there hasn’t been enough rain.

You can try using the READ AHEAD strategy to answer questions about a confusing word or idea in a passage. Sometimes the answers to your questions can be found later on in the text. Let’s review the READ AHEAD strategy:

If you become confused by something as you are reading, you should:

Turn to pg 368 Let’s read Mountain Mystery and hear how our vocabulary words for the week are used throughout the story.

Something peculiar is something that is very strange and unusual, usually not in a good way. What peculiar think does the family notice on their vacation?

If something happens occasionally, it happens once in a while. Why do you think the family only sees the dog occasionally?

Something drab looks dull and lacks color. What is drab about the dog?

When you are fascinated by something, you are very interested in it and pay close attention to it. Why do you think the writer of the journal is fascinated by the dog?

A hermit is a person who lives alone, often far from a community. Why do you think the writer’s mother says the dog could belong to a hermit?

A timid person is shy and unsure of himself or herself. Because the dog seems timid, what does the writer wonder?

If something is trembling, it is shaking slightly. Why do you think the dog is trembling as the writer speaks to it?

If someone dashed away, they quickly and suddenly ran away. Why do you think the dog dashed back into the woods after eating the bacon?

Lesson 14 Spelling Words Words with Ending /ən/ -on -en -an -ain

Spelling Words:  apron  button  canyon  certain  chicken  cardigan  cotton  dragon  even  fountain  gallon  horizon  listen  orphan  pardon  pollen  prison  siren  swollen  driven Challenge Words dolphin opinion oxygen veteran option

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