1. Theme 3 289O Voices of the Revolution
Story
Katie’s Trunk

2. Katie’s Trunk 289O Summary:
Genre:
Historical Fiction. Real settings are combined with fictional events and characters.
Summary:
Katie, whose family is Tory, hides in her mother’s wedding trunk to escape rebel soldiers during the Revolutionary War.

3. Background 290A This theme has to do with the American Revolution.
You are about to read about a girl and her family who remained loyal to England while most of their neighbors supported the rebels’ position.
Read

4. Vocabulary 291A arming: providing with weapons
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arming: providing with weapons
drilling: doing exercises to become efficient soldiers
fierce: ferocious

5. Vocabulary (cont) 291A just: honorable and fair
kin: people related by blood or marriage
peered: looked at with concentration

6. Vocabulary (cont) 291A
rebels: people who oppose or defy the government that exists.
skirmish: a small, short fight between enemies
skittish: nervous and jumpy

7. Vocabulary Link supreme: the most powerful or important
interpret: to figure out and explain the meaning of
cases: things to be decided in a court of law
unconstitutional: not in agreement with the Constitution of the U.S.
establish: to put in place or create

8. What are our Phonics/Decoding skills?
Phonics/Decoding 291A
What are our Phonics/Decoding skills?
They are chunking, words we know, beginning and endings, affixes, syllables, try different vowel sounds, base words or root words, blending, and looking carefully

9. Phonics/Decoding 291A
Inside our parlor, I touched each thing I loved: Mama’s pineapple teapot, the silver tray, shining like the moon, the pictures of all our kin ranged across the wall – home.
Help me figure this word out.
I recognize pine and apple. When I blend the two short words together I get pineapple.

10. Decoding
Decoding Root
Words
Decoding
roots

11. Reading Strategy 291B Summarize
What would it be like to be a Tory if your neighbors were Patriots?
When you read, summarize the conflict between Katie’s family and their neighbors.
Summarizing the story’s events, including how the characters feel, can help you understand what happens and why.

12. Reading Strategy 291B Summarize (cont)
Summarizing will help with your reading comprehension.
When I summarize a story, I retell the most important events in the story. (beginning, middle, end)

13. Comprehension Skill 291C Cause and Effect Trans 3-9
As you read the story, focus on what causes the story events to happen.
The reason something happens is called a cause. The event that happens as a result is the effect.
Ask yourself “What happened because of this?”

14. Decoding Longer Words 309E Structural Analysis: Syllabication
Suddenly, he shouted, “Out!”
When decoding a word you should first look for prefixes or suffixes.
The base word is sudden. Look at the consonants and vowels.
With a VCCV pattern, break the syllable pattern between the consonants.

15. Decoding Longer Words 309E
Katie hoped she would not be discovered.
I see the prefix (dis) and the suffix (ed). The base word is cover and has the VCV pattern. When I try to break the syllable after the first syllable it doesn’t sound right.
After I break it after the consonant, it sounds correct.
Try these words: sofa, silvery. What pattern do they follow VCV or VCCV?
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16. Phonics 309F Final Digraphs
Understanding the sounds consonants can stand for at the end of a word will help you decode many words.
Often 2 consonants that come together at the end of a word stand for a single sound called a digraph
Sometimes 2 consonants that come together at the end of a word are silent

17. Phonics Final Digraphs (cont)
My breath got caught somewhere midst my stomach and my chest.
I recognize the /st/ sound at the beginning. I will try the different /o/ sounds. I’ll try the short /o/ sound. The /a/ is probably short. I know the ch stands for /ch/ sound. When I put it altogether it doesn’t sound like a word I know. I’ll try a /k/ sound and, yes, it sounds like a word I know.

18. Phonics 309G Final Digraphs (cont)
With the following words, pay careful attention to the two final consonants
Mama felt skittish.
Although the rebels had gone, she could breathe no easier.
She had an ache in her heart that increased with each skirmish.

19. Spelling 309G VCCV Pattern
Dividing words into syllables and looking for familiar patterns can help you spell new words.
ARRIVE this word has the VCCV syllable pattern. AR/RIVE.
VCCV patterns are divided between double consonant.

20. Spelling 309G VCV Pattern
Dividing words into syllables and looking for familiar patterns can help you spell new words.
CLOSET - has the VCV pattern and is divided CLOS/ET
VCV words with the short vowel pattern in the first syllable usually divide after the consonant. VAN/ISH, PUB/LISH, SUB/JECT
VCV words are usually divided before the consonant because the first syllable has a long vowel sound. E/QUAL, A/WARE, BE/HAVE
PB 165

21. Vocabulary 309G Context Sentences
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22. Vocabulary Skills309I Trans 3-10 Dictionary: Spelling Table/Pronunciation Key
Dictionaries and glossaries contain either a spelling table, a punctuation key, or both
It is meant to help readers figure out how to sound out and spell words.
The sound column lists symbols to show different sounds.
The spellings column shows different combinations of letters that can stand for particular sound.
The sample words column gives examples of words containing a particular sound with the letters that stand for the sound highlighted.

23. Similes 309J
A simile is a type of comparison that writers use to make ideas or images more vivid.
ex. face like a white handkerchief,
ex. caught like an animal in a trap,
ex. words going up like bubbles in a pond
Practice book 168
similes

24. Grammar Skills 309K Verb Phrases
Trans PB 169
Verb phrases are made up of a main verb and one or more helping verbs.
Many verb phrases begin with a form of the helping verb have: the present form have or has or the past form had
Use has with singular subjects
Use have with plural subjects and I and you
Use had with either singular or plural subjects.

25. Verb Phrases Verb participles p.29 Participles p.32
Participles - Verbs p.52
Verb participles p.39

26. Grammar Skills 309L Trans 3-13 PB 170 Teach, learn; let, leave; sit, set; can, may;
Teach means to “instruct.”
Learn means to “to be instructed.”
Let means “to allow.”
Leave means to “go away.”
Can means “to have the ability to.”
May can mean “to have permission.”

27. Grammar Skills (cont) 309L lie, lay; rise, raise
Lie means “to recline or rest flat.”
Lay means “to put down.”
Rise means “to get up.”
Raise means “to lift up to higher position.”

28. Grammar309L Improving Your Writing
Using the correct verb
A good writer makes sure not to confuse and misuse verbs with related meanings.
ex. I will lie the book on the table.
Corrected: ex. I will lay the book on the table.
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29. Writing Skills 309M A Friendly Letter
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A friendly letter is a good way to share news about what’s happening in your lives.

30. Grammar 309N Voice
Every writer has a voice – a unique way of expressing himself or herself.
A writer’s voice helps reveal what the writer is like as a person.
A friendly letter offers a good opportunity for a writer to express his or her voice.
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31. Story Structure and Sequence of Events 309Q
The elements of story structure are characters, setting, and plot, which often contains a problem and a resolution.
Sequence of events is the order in which events happens.
Words such as first, then, now, later, and finally signal the order in which events occur.
Words such as while and as signal events happening at the same time.

32. Dictionary Skills 309R
Entry words are the main words that are defined in a dictionary. They are arranged in alphabetical order.
Guide words are pairs of words found at the top of each page. They indicate the first and last entry on each page.
Definitions explain a word’s meaning and appear next to each entry word.

33. Spelling Table/Pronunciation Key
Most dictionaries and glossaries contain a spelling table or pronunciation key.
It is to help you figure out how to sound out or spell a word.
Trans. 3-10
Sound column: list the symbols used to show the different sounds.
Spelling column: shows diff. combos of letters that can stand for a sound.
Sample word: gives examples of words containing a particular sound

34. Info and Study Skills Primary Sources:
Are sources of an account of a period or event that was created during that time, by a person who was there.
Secondary Sources:
Are articles, books, and textbooks written about an event by a person who was not there. Not a witness.

35. Determine Origins of Unknown Words

36. Synonyms and Antonyms Synonyms Antonyms
Homographs – same spelling but different meanings ex. bat

37. Figurative and Metaphorical
Figurative: an expression in which the words are distorted to create a vivid or dramatic effect
Ex.
Metaphor: figure of speech in which a term is used to compare use as an analogy

38. Spiral Review 309Q Story Structure
The elements of story structure are characters, setting, and plot (often is a problem and a resolution.
Sequence of events is the order in which events happen.
Words such as first, then, now, later, and finally signal the order in which events occur.
Words such as while and as signal events happening at the same time.

39. Spelling Test 1. equal 2. parlor 3. collect 4. closet 5. perhaps
6. wedding
7. rapid
8. value
9. arrive
10. behave
11. shoulder
12. novel
13. tulip
14. sorrow
15. vanish
16. essay
17. publish
18. aware
19. subject
20. prefer

40. Challenge Words
device
skittish
logic
sincere
nuisance

41. Study Guide Summary Cause and effect Syllabication Digraphs
VCCV and VCV patterns
Similies
Verb phrases
Grammar skills
Friendly letter
Voice
Story structure, sequence of events
Dictionary skills