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Theme 4
Selection 1
Selection 3
Selection 2
Selection 4
Problem Solvers
Problem Solvers
What do you think the Theme title means? Who are problem solvers? What are some problems you solve everyday?
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot
Problem Solvers
Purposes for Reading• Strategy focus:
predict/infer• Comprehension skill:
predict outcomes• Vocabulary development• Critical thinking, discussion
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.
Key VocabularyKey Vocabulary• attentively
• disappointed
• nervously
• drizzle
• troublesome
• revolved
• pageant
• rededication• misunderstanding
attentively
with attention or alertness
disappointed
feeling like things didn’t go the way you hoped
nervously
with concern, worry, or fear
drizzle
light rain
troublesome
Causing problems
revolved
to be centered around a particular thing
pageant
a play based on events in history
rededication
making holy again
misunderstanding
a failure to understand
Spelling FocusSpelling 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
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot
Problem Solvers
Purposes for Reading• Strategy focus:
evaluate• Comprehension skill:
problem solving• Vocabulary development• Critical thinking, discussion
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.
Key VocabularyKey Vocabulary• bunkhouse• Cords (of wood)
• immense
• landscape
• lumberjacks
• snowshoes
• timber
• woodsman
bunkhouse
a building in a camp where a group of people sleep
cords (of wood)
measures for stacks of cut wood
immense
Huge, very large
landscapea stretch of land
lumberjacks
people who chop down trees and haul the wood to a sawmill
showshoes
frames attached to shoes and used for walking across snow
timbertrees that can be used as building wood
woodsman
a person who works or lives in a forest
Spelling FocusSpelling FocusFinal /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
Spelling FocusSpelling FocusFinal /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