Parmeleby Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little

Open Court- Fifth GradeUnit 3- Heritage

Lesson 6

Word Knowledge & Selection Vocabulary

A Presentation by Tan Doan- Fruitvale School- Oakland

gas station rocking chair soda pop parking lot

The man at the gas station wore leather glove.

Open Compound Words

Please give some examples of open compound words.

read can found like

Homographs

I like ice cream just like you do.

Can you think of some more homographs?

ready leather breakfast bread

/e/ sound spelled ea

We’re ready for breakfast.

Please give some more words with /e/ sound spelled ea.

ankles porches stroke thumb around

Half of the players on a football team could have tape wrapped around their sprained ankles.

final -le, /or/ sound, consonant blends,

silent letters, and /ow/ sound

Selection Vocabulary

collardspatchwork

quiltssharecropper

commence

hovering

Use Context Clues, Word Structure, and Apposition

to figure out the meaning of the words

collards - I remember her most bending over the

collards in her garden or feeding the chickens.

- The first step in preparing the collards for supper was washing all the leaves clean of dirt and insects.

green, leafy vegetable

patchwork quilts

- She used to sew leftover material from my dresses into her patchwork quilts.

- My grandmother used pieces of colored cloth to make a patchwork quilt for my bed.

It kept me warm at night all winter.

blankets made from scraps of

material sewn together

sharecropper

- Pa was a sharecropper.

- Being a sharecropper would take a lot of hard work.

a farmer who gives part of his or her crop as rent to the owner of the land

commence“One night,” he’d say, “me and my brother John was

coming ’cross that field over yonder... and we commence to hearing this strange sound.”

The coach announced that practice would commence in five minutes. We should all be

on the field and ready to go.

begin

hovering- He’d twist his face and narrow his eyes in horror as he stared into the darkness, and I

could just feel all those haints hovering behind us, daring us to turn around and run

for the door.

- First I heard the sound of bees buzzing. Then I saw a swarm of them hovering over my brother’s head.

staying in the same position in the air without moving forward or backward

Vocabulary Quiz01. staying in the same position in the

air without moving forward or backward

02. green, leafy vegetable

03. a farmer who gives part of his or her

crop as rent to the owner of the land

04. blankets made from scraps of material sewn together

05. begin