1. The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring
By: Lucille Clifton
Illustrated by: Brinton Turkle

2. An example of city wildlife:

3. Objectives: You will: recognize antonyms and synonyms,
Recognize compound words
Recognize base words and the suffix –y and the prefix un-
Practice using the spelling patterns ar and air
Recognize the long u sound spelled u, u_e, _ue, _ew.

4. Word Knowledge hollered whispered grinned frowned vacant empty bare
streetlight playground tiptoe
spiky cottony smelly silvery
unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten unoccupied
started apartments dark car air

5. Word Knowledge
Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was untied to see what King was going to do.
“Well, come on, man,” King whispered, and they started down the street.
Just after the friends passed some apartments, they came to a vacant lot.
An indigo car is a dark blue color.

6. What do these words have in common?
hollered whispered grinned frowned
The words are antonyms. What’s an antonym?
An antonym means opposite. With your partner, identify the antonyms
Hollered/whispered, grinned/frowned
Use each word in a sentence and come up with other examples of antonyms.
Hot/cold, hard/soft, up/down, left/right, day/night, all/none.

7. What is the same with these words?
vacant empty bare
These words are synonyms. Raise your hand if you can tell me what a synonym is.
Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.
What is the synonym to these words?
Happy
tired…
large…
end…
grow…
mature, develop
sleepy
joyful
finish, complete

8. What is the spelling pattern in the next set of words?
streetlight playground tiptoe
The words are compound words.
What words make up each compound word?
street + light
play + ground
tip + toe
Do the two words help us understand the meaning of the word?

9. What’s the secret pattern between these words?
spiky cottony smelly silvery
The suffix –y is added to base words.
Give a definition for each word and use the word in a sentence.
Identify the part of speech the word becomes in a sentence.
By adding the suffix –y , the word becomes an adjective (a describing word).

10. What do these words have in common?
unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten unoccupied
The prefix un- is added to words.
What does the prefix un- mean?
Un- means not.
Give the base word and explain how the word changes when you add un-.
Example: the base word for unbelievable is
believe.
When you add un- the word means not true.

11. What do these words have in common?
started apartments dark car air
These words are spelling words found in “The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring”.
Let’s review the spelling patterns for ar and air.

12. Please read the sentences and find the antonyms:
Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was untied to see what King was going to do.
“Well, come on, man,” King whispered, and they started down the street.
Just after the friends passed some apartments, they came to a vacant lot.
stopped/started, untied/tied, whispered/shouted, down/up, after/before, friends/enemies, vacant/occupied

13. Now, let’s identify any synonyms or prefixes
Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was untied to see what King was going to do.
“Well, come on, man,” King whispered, and they started down the street.
Just after the friends passed some apartments, they came to a vacant lot.
Synonyms: stopped/discontinued, untied/undone, started/began, some/several, vacant/bare/empty
Prefixes: untied-not tied.

14. Now, let’s read the following sentence together:
An indigo car is a dark blue color.
Identify the words that have the /ar/ sound spelled ar
Car, dark

15. Prior Knowledge What do you remember from the Read Aloud?
Raise you hand if you can share with me what you notice about the first signs of spring.

16. Background Information
“The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring” is realistic fiction.
Realistic fiction may include descriptions of actual places and things, and also situations that are made up but could happen.
The author invents the characters, then involves them in solving a problem.
~Realistic Fiction~

17. Background Information
The author, Lucille Clifton, uses idiomatic spellings and phrases.
Some of the spelling in the story was used to show natural speech and may differ from the dictionary spelling.
bout for about
comin for coming

18. Preview and Prepare (Reading 2.6
Let ‘s read aloud: the title, the author and illustrator.
Now let’s browse the first page or two of the story.
Who are the main characters?
Look at the illustrations in the selections.
Make sure you make predictions about the text to help monitor your comprehension.
Look for: clues, problems, such as unfamiliar words
Now let’s look at the focus questions.
What is city wildlife?
What types of wildlife would you expect to find in a city?

19. Student Observation Clues Problems Wonderings
Can a person Weissman’s How can you
“believe” in Spring? find Spring?

20. The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring
mound
crops
patch
Selection Vocabulary
vacant
decorated

21. Now that spring has arrived, the farmer is busy planting his crops.
One day after the teacher had been talking about birds that were blue and his Mama had started talking about crops coming up, King Shabazz decided he had just had enough.
Now that spring has arrived, the farmer is busy planting his crops.

22. Definition: Plants grown for food or to sell to make money
Crops
Dictionary crops
Page 177
Definition: Plants grown for food or to sell to make money
Sentence: pg.145
Antonym: seeds
Synonym: harvest, produce
Part of Speech: Noun

23. decorated
They passed the Church of the Solid Rock with high windows all decorated and pretty.
The wedding reception hall looked lovely, decorated with twinkling lights and pretty flowers.

24. Definition: Made beautiful by adding fancy things and frills
Decorated Dictionary
Page 193
Definition: Made beautiful by adding fancy things and frills
Sentence: pg. 149
Antonym: common, plain
Synonym: detailed, garnish
Part of Speech: Adjective

25. vacant
Just after they passed some apartments King Shabazz and Tony Polito came to a vacant lot.
The warehouse looked as though it had been vacant for years.

26. vacant Dictionary Page 832 Empty, abandoned Verb Antonym: crowded
Synonym: empty, abandoned

27. mound
The wheels were gone and so were the doors, but it was dark red and sitting high on a dirt mound in the middle of the lot.
The catcher walked toward the pitcher’s mound, a slightly raised area of ground on a baseball field. He wanted to talk to the pitcher about the next batter.

28. Definition: Small hill or pile of dirt,rocks, or other material
Mound Dictionary
Page 482
Definition: Small hill or pile of dirt,rocks, or other material
Sentence: pg.150
Antonym: flat, mountain
Synonym: knoll, drift
Part of Speech: Noun

29. patch
He looked down and saw a patch of little yellow pointy flowers, growing in the middle of short spiky green leaves.
A large empty patch stood out from the full green lawn.

30. Patch Dictionary Page 543 An area different from what is around it
Noun
Antonym: whole
Synonym: part, spotty

31. Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text
What do you know already about city wildlife? During the next six weeks, we read stories about city wildlife.
Does anyone have any further questions or points to share up to this point?

32. Word Analysis
Spelling – This week, we will spell words wit the /ar/ sound.
started apartments dark car air
Let’s take our spelling pretest.
Vocabulary Skill Words (antonyms)
whispered shouted slowly mound vacant

33. English Language Conventions “Quote Marks” Eng. Lang. Conv. 1.0, 1.4)
Quotation marks let the reader know that something is being said.
A comma sets of the speaker’s words from the rest of the sentence.
If the sentence ends with the quotation, the punctuation goes inside the closing quotation mark.
“I’m hungry!” Shelly said.
“Are you tired?” Michael asked.
Brian said, “It’s time to go to school.”
The name of a short story, poem, song or book chapter should be in quotes.

34. Writing Process Strategies Getting Ideas: Responding to Fiction (writing 1.1, 1.4)
I like the character King Shabazz in the story “The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring”.
I could write a response to fiction explaining why.
What plots, settings, and ideas could you use to write responses to fiction?
Let’s make a list on the board.

35. Tip for Responding to fiction Prewriting
Make a plan
Character: qualities they have in the story. Make a web. Look for information in the story to support each idea in the web.
Example: Aunt Flossie’s Hats
Aunt Flossie
1.Kind: feeds tea and cookies, lets try on hats, tells stories
2. Old: horses pulled, fire engines
3. Patient: doesn’t yell

36. Drafting Get your thoughts on paper
Use each quality in a separate paragraph.
Example:
I wish I had an aunt like Flossie. She seems very kind. She gives her nieces cookies and tea when they come to visit. She lets them try on her hats. She tells them stories about each hat.
Aunt Flossie must be kind of old. She is a great-great aunt. She remembers when horses pulled fire engines.
I think Aunt Flossie is patient. When the girls try on her very best Sunday hat, she starts to tell the story. The girls keep interrupting Aunt Flossie doesn’t yell at them. She lets them help her tell the story.

37. Revising, Editing/Proofreading, publishing
Revising: Be sure it makes sense
Organization: do your supporting sentences stay on topic?
Sentence Fluency: Did you use some long and some short sentences?
Editing/Proofreading: Look closely at the details.
1. Indent each paragraph.
2. Make sure you have used capital letters correctly.
3. check your response for spelling mistakes.
Publishing: Get ready to share your response to fiction. Make a clean copy. Does it look like something you would want to read? Design a cover for your story. Write your response on the front inside page. Write a title.

38. The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring (first reading-orally pgs
The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring (first reading-orally pgs ) Listen/Speak 1.1,1.2
When I read this story I will:
Predict what the story might be about
What Questions come to mind?
What images pop into my
mind? (Visualize)
Summarize story in own words

39. Discussing Strategy Use TG 122
How did you clarify confusing passages?
What questions did you ask yourself as you read the story?
Did you make predictions as you read the story? What were they?
What did you visualize as you read the story?

40. Discussing the Selection
Let’s use handing off to answer these questions:
Why didn’t King believe in spring?
What did King and Tony do to find spring?
What signs of spring did they find?
What types of wildlife are common in cities?
Write your answers in your response journal

41. Concept/Question Board TE p. 125B
Let’s use the Concept/Question board to:
Post questions we have about the story that have not been answered yet.
Post articles about city wildlife.
Answer our story focus question.

42. Word Analysis ELC 1.8, Reading 1.4
Spelling
Here is Sound/Spelling card 27 /ar/.
Repeat after me: armadillo. Sort your spelling words by ar, are, air, or ear spellings.
Vocabulary: Antonyms
whispered
Antonyms are two words with opposite meanings.
The antonym for whispered is:
Shouted, screamed, yelled, hollered

43. Antonyms Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings.
Hot and cold are antonyms.
Happy and sad are antonyms.
Push and pull are antonyms.

44. English Language Conventions E.L.C., 1.5
Review: Quotation Marks.
When are quotation marks used?
Quotation marks are used when someone speaks, for short story, poem and song titles and chapters in a book.
Name two or more animals that live in the city.
Imagine what animals would say to each other about how humans treat them.
What would they say? Let’s write their conversation on the board.
Find one declarative (.), one interrogative (?), and one exclamatory (!) quotation in “The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring.”
Work with a partner...

45. Phonics and Fluency Review the long u sound spelled u, u_e, _ue, _ew
Here is the Sound/Spelling Card 36, the long u sound.
unit used menu Utah
cue human humid January
puny fuel pupil unicorn
mew few unify universe
Can you identify the letters that make the long u sound?
My favorite month is January.
I ate a few cookies after dinner.
He used to sit with his friend Tony Polito on the bottom step when the days started getting longer and warmer and talk about it

46. “The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring” Second Read
Comprehension Skills – Classify and Categorize
What does classifying and categorizing mean?
It is sometimes useful to put story information into sections or categorizes.
Putting things that are alike together in a group will help you understand and learn information.
As you read the story, try to classify and categorize different things.

47. Classify and Categorize
Signs of Spring
People in the Story
Things in King and Tony’s Neighborhood
Things King Does
Things King and Tony Smell

48. Checking Comprehension (reading 2.3)
What does this story have to do with city wildlife?
Tony and King find plants beginning to grow and a bird’s blue eggs in the car in a vacant lot.
What do Tony and King realize when they find the flowers and the bird’s eggs?
They realize that spring has really arrived.
How do you think they feel about their discovery?
They feel happy and amazed at finding signs of spring in the city.

49. Interviewing
In an interview, you ask another person questions to get information about a subject or to find out what she or he thinks or feels about something.
In an interview, a person is the source.
Here are the rules of doing an interview:
Always ask permission to interview a person.
Ask Who? What? Where? Why? And How? Questions.
Write down your questions in the order you want to ask them.
Speak clearly and politely during an interview.
Take notes as the person answers the questions.
Thank the person after the interview.

50. Word Analysis Spelling mound Vocabulary bare bear
Listen to the /air/ sounds in bare and bear
Now, complete Spelling and Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary
mound
hole, indentation, and valley are antonyms to mound
Knowing the meaning of the antonyms, what is the meaning of the word mound.
hill, bump, pile
Work with your partner to think of some more antonyms for the word mound.
Flat land, valley, dip

51. English Language Conventions
Where does the quotation marks go for the following sentences?
Fragrant flowers are flourishing in the field, Fred said gratefully.
Rachel Carson said We need to protect the natural world.

52. English Language Conventions TG. p. 125H
Where does the quotation marks go for the following sentences?
When will the cardinal eggs hatch? asked Ellen.
That cardinal is bright red! Gasped Miguel.
Note: The end punctuation goes inside the closing quotation mark.
Assignment: Write a brief dialogue among animals about life in the city.

53. Writing Process Strategies Drafting : Responding to Fiction
Although responding to fiction means giving opinions, these opinions need to be supported with examples from the writing.
Time order words are words that show the transition of events.
Before, after, first, next, later, last, until, then, finally
Time order words are used to help readers follow actions.

54. Be a
Sequence
Detective!

55. Sequence is the order in which events happen.

56. Certain words can be sequence clues.

57. Time-Order Words
first
next
then
finally

58. Time-Order Expression
in the morning
after that
later that day
two weeks later

59. Other Time Words
yesterday
Saturday
April
winter

60. Now be a sequence detective
Now be a sequence detective. See if you can spot the clue words in the following story.

61. Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey
Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey. We were both in a ball game at recess. I told him he had made a good catch during the game. Later that day we played in a softball game. We were on the same team and we won!

62. Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey
Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey. We were both in a ball game at recess. I told him he had made a good catch during the game. Later that day we played in a softball game. We were on the same team and we won!

63. After the game, we traded some baseball cards, and then he said he wanted to ask me something. After he finished talking, we walked to the bus stop.

64. After the game, we traded some baseball cards, and then he said he wanted to ask me something. After he finished talking, we walked to the bus stop.

65. The next morning, I was able to answer his question
The next morning, I was able to answer his question. My parents said that I would go to his family’s apartment to have dinner with him on his birthday, December 6.

66. The next morning, I was able to answer his question
The next morning, I was able to answer his question. My parents said that I would go to his family’s apartment to have dinner with him on his birthday, December 6.

67. Developing Oral Language
unit used menu Utah
cue human humid January
puny fuel pupil unicorn
mew few unify universe
A is a mammal.
Human
is a cold month.
January
I need to run my gold car.
fuel

68. Developing Oral Language
unit used menu Utah
cue human humid January
puny fuel pupil unicorn
mew few unify universe
The state of is very pretty.
Utah
Our Open Court is called City Wildlife.
unit
The word means small.
puny

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

70. Literary Elements: Characterization
Characterization is the way that a writer shows what the characters in his or her story are like.
Writers do this by telling what the characters do, say, think, and feel.
Let’s complete the table:
Character
What I Know About Him
Evidence
King Shabazz
Tony Polito

71. Word Analysis Empty, clear, and blank are synonyms of vacant.
Spelling
Dark
Knowing the spelling of dark can help us know that the rhyming word park is spelled the same way.
Vocabulary
Vacant
Empty, clear, and blank are synonyms of vacant.
What are the antonyms for vacant?
full, loaded, crowded
What is the definition of vacant , now that we know its’ antonyms and synonyms?
empty space, clear area

72. English Language Conventions listen/Speak 1.1
With your group...
Remembering what we hear
Being able to recall a story is an important listening skill.
If we listen well the first time, we won’t have to get the information again.
Another good listening skill is repeating and paraphrasing what we hear in our own words. This helps us share information with others. We can give the same message using our own words.
In small groups, paraphrase the important points and details of the story.
Students will decide on a group leader.
The group leader will record the important points.
As a class, we will call on the group leader to share their information with the class.

73. Writing Process Strategies: Revising (Writing 1.1, 1.4)
When the supporting sentences stray from the topic of the paragraph, readers lose interest.
When statements about a character, setting, idea, or plot are not supported with details from the story, it makes the statements hard to believe.
Misspelling names of people and places can be distracting and it makes it seem like you did not read the story carefully.
Revise your drafts using time order words.

74. English Language Conventions Review
Remember…
Quotation marks are used to let the reader know that something is being said.
A comma sets off the speaker’s words from the rest of the sentence.
The ending punctuation goes inside the closing quotation mark.
“I’m hungry!” Shelly said.
“Are you tired?” Michael asked.
Brian said, “It’s time to go to school.”
The name of a short story, poem, song, or book chapter should also be in quotation marks.

75. Test