2. Theme 4 Selection 1 Selection 3 Selection 2 Selection 4 Problem Solvers

3.  What do you think the Theme title means?  Who are problem solvers?  What are some problems you solve everyday?

5. Genre: Realistic Fiction Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot Problem Solvers

6. Purposes for Reading Strategy focus: predict/infer Comprehension skill: predict outcomes Vocabulary development Critical thinking, discussion

7. Strategy Focus: Strategy Focus: Predict /Infer Infer: How would I feel in this situation? What would I do? Predict: How will the character act? Infer by thinking about how you would act, or what you would do in this situation. Then predict what will happen in the story.

8. Key Vocabulary attentively disappointed nervously drizzle troublesome revolved pageant rededication misunderstanding

9. attentively with attention or alertness

10. disappointed feeling like things didn’t go the way you hoped

11. nervously with concern, worry, or fear

12. drizzle light rain

13. troublesome Causing problems

14. revolved to be centered around a particular thing

15. pageant a play based on events in history

16. rededication making holy again

17. misunderstanding a failure to understand

18. Spelling Focus Spelling Focus /k/, /ng/, and /kw/ sounds shark attack risk public sink question electric jacket blank ache crooked drink topic track blanket struck mistake junk squirrel stomach aquatic comic tropical speckled peculiar

20. Genre: Realistic Fiction Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot Problem Solvers

21. Purposes for Reading Strategy focus: evaluate Comprehension skill: problem solving Vocabulary development Critical thinking, discussion

22. Strategy Focus: Strategy Focus: Evaluate Evaluate: What story elements help me visualize the world the boy is in? In this story, a boy faces challenges in an unfamiliar place. Evaluate how well the author helps you see this new world through the boy’s eyes.

23. Key Vocabulary bunkhouse Cords (of wood)Cords (of wood) immense landscape lumberjacks snowshoes timber woodsman

24. bunkhouse a building in a camp where a group of people sleep

25. cords (of wood) measures for stacks of cut wood

26. immense Huge, very large

27. landscape a stretch of land

28. lumberjacks people who chop down trees and haul the wood to a sawmill

29. showshoes frames attached to shoes and used for walking across snow

30. timber trees that can be used as building wood

31. woodsman a person who works or lives in a forest

32. Spelling Focus Spelling Focus Final /e/ beauty ugly lazy marry ready sorry empty honey valley movie duty hungry lonely alley body twenty turkey hockey fifty monkey fiery envy mercy chimney imaginary

33. Spelling Focus Spelling Focus Final /e/ heavy many lady tiny quickly family melody plenty dizzy cheery eighty machinery sweaty finally closely Mississippi comedy mystery cruelty soapy fiery envy mercy chimney imaginary