4th Grade Theme 2

Lesson 8

Day 1

Theme 2 Essential Question

• Many jobs that are too big for one person are easily accomplished with the help of friends, relatives, or community members. How can people work together to get a job done?

Question of the Day

• Do you think authors write nonfiction for the same reasons they write fiction stories? Why or Why not?

Expository Nonfiction

• Gives facts about a topic

• Is usually organized by main ideas and details.

Listen to Inside a Inside a Computer Computer to learn to learn when the first when the first electronic computer electronic computer was developed. was developed.

Author’s Purpose

• Authors write to:

1. Entertain

2. Inform

3. Persuade

4. Teach a Lesson

Many authors have more than one purpose for writing.

Author’s Perspective

• How the author feels about the subject he or she is writing about.

Author’s purpose

Author’s Perspective

Details in Text

Practice Author’s Purpose

• Turn to page 213

• Read the story and look at the organizer.

• What was the author’s purpose?

• What was the author’s perspective?

• What details in the text gave you the clues to this information?

Practice with a partner

• Reading practice book page 44• Read the story with you partner.• Work on the graphic organizer together

Author’s purpose

Author’s Perspective

Details in Text

Let’s review…

Author’s purpose

Author’s Perspective

Details in Text

To give information about what the Internet allows people to do

The author seems to feel that the internet has great value.

•Many important uses•Fast, easy, inexpensive•Like a huge library•Helps people find information, share experiences, and stay in touch

Summarize

• When you read pause from time to time to summarize.

• When you summarize you are retelling the MOST important events or ideas.

• It does not include every idea.

• Summarizing while you read can help you better understand and remember what you read.

slick

• If something is slick, it is presented in an attractive way.

• Which would you find slick-a robot that does homework or a new kind of pizza? Why?

nimble

• If someone is nimble, he or she moves quickly, lightly, and easily.

• Which job would require you to be nimble- a ballet dancer or a computer programmer? Why?

impressed

• To be impressed with someone means to admire that person.

• How impressed would you be if your best friend won a race against someone in 8th grade?

cease

• If you cease to do something you stop doing it.

• What would you prefer to cease-loud music early in the morning or your favorite television show? Why?

exist

• When something exists, it is a real thing that is present in the world.

• What animals do you know of that once lived on Earth but do not exist anymore?

fierce

• A fierce person or animal is angry, violent, or ready to attack.

• Which animal would you call fierce-a lion or a small snail? Why?

Word Attack: VCCV patterns

• basket (bas) (ket)

Each consonant has its own sound

• Bother vccv the consonants th said together make one sound.

vccv

Consonants-1 sound or 2?

• Customer

• Computer

• Bushel

• Walnut

• Mistakes

• Signal

• gopher

Spelling Words• ruffle• icicle• soccer• appear• luncheon• jersey• brother• hollow• juggle• circle

• ribbon• rabbit• nurses• harvest• sandwich• marry• hurry• merry• ferry• berry

Writing Prompt

Imagine that you had to pick a partner to work on a class science project. Think about who you would want to work with. Now, write a letter asking that person to be your partner.