Monday Warm-Up

• What does the latin root “ped” mean? Consider these words:– Pedal– Biped– Pedestrian,– Pedestal– Pedicure

Monday, September 30

• Warm Up/Housekeeping/Attendance• Read and discuss pages 49-51 • Vocab-O-Gram Group Activity• Listen to An American Childhood (pages

52-58) Track 16 and 17• Groups discuss questions on page 58

Tuesday Warm-Up

• The Greek root word “phon” means sound. Make a list of words that you can think of that contain “phon” as a root word.

Tuesday, October 1•WarmUp/Housekeeping/Attendance•Brain Pop: context clues •Review: first person and third person (Author’s Point of View)•Complete Workbook pages 23-24 (with your team)•Read Chapter 2 of novel: My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen

Wednesday Warm-Up

• Vision, revise, visible, and visit all contain the Latin root “vis”. What does it mean? Can you think of other words that use that root?

Wednesday, October 2

• Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance• Discuss use of “dialect” and How good readers

make connections with text (text-self, text-world, text-text)

• Read The Luckiest Time of All pages 63-67. Use graphic organizer to record 3 connections to the text.

Thursday Warm-Up

The Greek root “mono” means “one”. Make a list of words that you can think of

that contain that root

Thursday, October 3

• Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance• Review “Authors Point of View” and “Context

Clues”. • Complete worksheet pages 27-28• Read Chapter 3 of My Life in Dog Years• Go to library to check out, renew, and return

books

Friday Warm-Up

• The Greek root “therm” means “heat”. List word you can think of that contain that word.

Friday, October 4• Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance• Two Station Rotations

• Folktale: Taily-Po

Station 1Using context clues test practice (pages 70-71

Station 2Complete ISO for points…points check….warm-up notebook check