1. How Tia Lola Came to Stay
Fourth Grade
Unit 6 Week 3
Kristi Goggans

2. Genre – Realistic Fiction
Realistic fiction is made up, but the characters and events are so lifelike that the story seems as if it must be true.

3. Vocabulary Strategy – Context Clues
Sometimes you can use context clues – the words and sentences around an unknown word – to help you figure out the meaning of the word.

4. Comprehension Skill – Character and Theme
What the characters in a story do and say give clues about what they are like.
The theme is the underlying meaning of a story.
The author may state the theme or the reader has to think about the story in order to figure out the theme.
A reader must have proof from the story to support a theme.

5. Comprehension Strategy – Summarize
As you read a story, summarize the characters’ goals and how they try to reach them. Ask yourself, “ What are the characters like as they try to reach their goals? Do they succeed? Summarizing will help you figure out the theme of the story.

6. Affords Colonel Glint Lurking Palettes Quaint Resemblance
Vocabulary
Affords
Colonel
Glint
Lurking
Palettes
Quaint
Resemblance

7. Gives as an effect or a result; provides
Affords
Gives as an effect or a result; provides

8. A military rank below General
Colonel
A military rank below General

9. Glint
A gleam or a flash

10. Hiding or moving about in a secret and sly manner
Lurking
Hiding or moving about in a secret and sly manner

11. Mixing board for paints
Palettes
Mixing board for paints

12. Strange or odd in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way
Quaint
Strange or odd in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way

13. Similar appearance; likeness
Resemblance
Similar appearance; likeness

14. What is the most likely reason the author described the photographs of Colonel Charlebois as a boy?
To explain why he was unhappy
To tell about his baseball uniform
To show that he loved baseball

15. Miguel had to write a letter to Colonel Charlebois because -
The colonel didn’t want to answer the telephone
Miguel’s family didn’t have a phone
Miguel didn’t have the colonel’s phone number

16. Which of these events happened last in the story?
Miguel found photographs that showed the colonel as a boy
The colonel accepted an invitation from Miguel’s Tia Lola
Miguel and his team began practicing in the colonel’s field.

17. Which of these is an important theme from the story?
People from different backgrounds can have fun together
Sports are only enjoyed by young people and their families
Photographs show people, places, and events from the past.

18. They seemed to know what would happen
At the beginning of the story, how were Tia Lola and Colonel Charlebois alike?
They seemed to know what would happen
They enjoyed telling stories to children
They had unusual ways of doing things.

19. When Tia Lola said she planned to “change a hard heart” she meant that she would change -
The colonel’s mind by making him happy
Her mind and repaint the house white
Miguel’s family about moving back to New York.

20. What kind of person was Tia Lola?
Noisy
Clever
Nervous

21. Which of these is an important theme from the story?
A person’s time is as valuable as money
A person who is kind has no friends
A person’s face is the window to their heart

22. The old photograph The answering machine The trimmed hedges
Which of these gave Tia Lola her best clue for what would probably make Colonel Charlebois happy?
The old photograph
The answering machine
The trimmed hedges