1. Parmele by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
Open Court- Fifth Grade
Unit 3- Heritage
Lesson 6
Parmele
by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
Word Knowledge & Selection Vocabulary
A Presentation by Tan Doan- Fruitvale School- Oakland

2. Open Compound Words The man at the gas station wore leather glove.
gas station rocking chair soda pop parking lot
Open Compound Words
The man at the gas station wore leather glove.
Please give some examples of open compound words.

3. Homographs read can found like I like ice cream just like you do.
Can you think of some more homographs?

4. /e/ sound spelled ea ready leather breakfast bread
We’re ready for breakfast.
Please give some more words with /e/ sound spelled ea.

5. ankles porches stroke thumb around
final -le, /or/ sound, consonant blends,
silent letters, and /ow/ sound
Half of the players on a football team could have
tape wrapped around their sprained ankles.

6. Selection Vocabulary Use Context Clues, Word Structure, and Apposition
to figure out the meaning of the words
collards
patchwork quilts
sharecropper
commence
hovering

7. collards green, leafy vegetable
- I remember her most bending over the collards in her garden or feeding the chickens.
- The first step in preparing the collards for supper was washing all the leaves clean of dirt and insects.
green, leafy vegetable

8. patchwork quilts blankets made from scraps of material sewn together
- She used to sew leftover material from
my dresses into her patchwork quilts.
- My grandmother used pieces of colored cloth
to make a patchwork quilt for my bed.
It kept me warm at night all winter.
blankets made from scraps of
material sewn together

9. - Being a sharecropper would take a lot of hard work.
- Pa was a sharecropper.
- Being a sharecropper would take a lot of hard work.
a farmer who gives part of his or her crop as rent to the owner of the land

10. commence
“One night,” he’d say, “me and my brother John was coming ’cross that field over yonder... and we commence to hearing this strange sound.”
The coach announced that practice would commence in five minutes. We should all be on the field and ready to go.
begin

11. hovering
- He’d twist his face and narrow his eyes in horror as he stared into the darkness, and I could just feel all those haints hovering behind us, daring us to turn around and run for the door.
- First I heard the sound of bees buzzing. Then I saw a swarm of them hovering over my brother’s head.
staying in the same position in the air without moving forward or backward

12. Vocabulary Quiz 01. staying in the same position in the air
without moving forward or backward
02. green, leafy vegetable
03. a farmer who gives part of his or her
crop as rent to the owner of the land
04. blankets made from scraps of material sewn together
05. begin