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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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?

5. 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

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

7. jangled
Make a loud ringing noise

8. twittered
chattered noisily, sounding like chirping birds

9. gleamed
was bright and shiny

10. darted
Moved or ran quickly from one place to another place

11. scrawled
wrote quickly but not carefully

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

13. 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 _________.

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