Name: ______________________________________Date: _______________________________________Class: _________

Weekly Packet: Week 10

Unit: The Magic Treehouse: Dinosaurs Before DarkChapters 1 + 2

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Week 9: Vocabulary and Spelling Name: _________________________________

Date: __________________________________

Old Vocabulary (review):

Word Definition Part of Speechreal Not fantasy. This is the real world. adjective

alone By yourself, not with people. adjective

far (away) Not close. A long distance. adjective

distance The distance from my house to the school is very short. noun

race To try to go faster than someone else. noun, verb

leave

1) To go away. Nafezleaves the classroom to go drink water.2) To not bring something/someone. When Minna’s mom goes to the supermarket, she leaves Minna at home alone.

verb

New Vocabulary:

Word Definition Part of Speech

monster A scary-looking thing. noun

half noun

ladder Wooden stairs that you can move around. noun

rope noun

branch noun

hole noun

neighbor A person who lives close to you. noun

creature A living thing. noun

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gh = Ø

sigh tight righthigh fight nightneighbor bright knight

pretend(pretended)

1) Fantasy. Not real. Something you make up in your head. (adj)2) To make something up in your head. (verb) adjective, verb

belongs to(belonged)

own(owned)

When something is yours.I own this car. This car belongs to me.

verb

glance (glanced)

A short, quick look. verb

notice (noticed)

To see something that you didn’t see before. verb

crawl (crawled)

To walk on your hands and knees. verb

spin (spun)

To go around and around in circles. verb

soar(soared)

To fly high in the sky. To go up quickly. verb

Spelling:

1. dinosaur2. half3. leave4. creature5. beak6. real7. soar8. groan9. sigh10.neighbor11.distance12. glance13.notice

BONUS:supposed to

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When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking!

When two vowels walk, the first one says its name.

ea = sounds like “E”

leave meatcreature dreambeak real

oa = sounds like “O”

soargroan

1. dinosaur ___________ ____________ ___________ 2. half ___________ ____________ ___________3. leave ___________ ____________ ___________4. creature ___________ ____________ ___________5. beak ___________ ____________ ___________6. real ___________ ____________ ___________7. soar ___________ ____________ ___________8. groan ___________ ____________ ___________9. sigh ___________ ____________ ___________10.neighbor ___________ ____________ ___________11.distance ___________ ____________ ___________12.glance ___________ ____________ ___________13.notice ___________ ____________ ___________

BONUS: supposed to ___________ ____________ ___________

Meet the book!What is the title of the book? _________________________________________________________

What series is the book from? _________________________________________________________

What number book is this in the series? _______

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Who is the author of the book? _________________________________________________

How many chapters are in the book? _______

Making Predictions:

Can you predict what will happen in the book?

Look at the cover of the book.

1) Do you think the book is real or fantasy (=pretend)?Why??????

2) Who do you think the characters are? What clothing are they wearing?

3) What do you see in the background? (Look at the volcanos.) Is this like your world or not?

4) The title of the series is “The Magic Tree House”. What can you predict from this?

What do you think will happen in the book?

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Homework: Tell yourparents what you predict will happen in the story. Talk about questions #1, #2, #3, and #4.

Parent signature: ____________________________________________________

Reading Comprehension: Chapter 1

1. Where do Jack and Annie live?

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2. How old is Annie? How old is Jack?

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3. What did Annie find in the woods?

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4. How do Jack and Annie get up into the tree house?

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5. Who wants to go up into the tree house? Who doesn’t want to?

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6. Why does Jack decide to go up in the tree house?

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Vocabulary Worksheet #1:

real alone far distance race leave monster crawl

half ladder rope branch hole neighbor spins

creature soars pretend belongs to own glance notice

1. Annie likes pretend stuff, but Jack likes _________________ things.

2. Sometimes I wake up in the night and I am scared that there is a

________________ under my bed.

3. A falcon is a kind of bird that _____________________ high in the sky.

4. Because Ms. Chloe is very short, she needs to use a ____________________ to

plug in the air conditioning.

5. I hate my _______________________! He always yells at me because my music

is too loud.

6. Ms. Kelsey drives to school every day, even though the ___________________

between her house and the school is very short. She is so lazy!

7. Because the earth ________________, it is night in America when it is daytime

in Palestine.

8. When I was little, I would ____________________ that I had an invisible friend

named Max.

9. Tulkarem is close to Nablus, but Jericho is very _________________ away.

10. When it rains, the water comes into my house because there is a

____________________ in the roof.

11. Sometimes I like to be with my friends, but sometimes I just want to be

___________________.

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What do you do when you see a word you don’t know?

Reading Strategies: Read around the word!

Look for:1. Synonyms / Antonyms2. Examples3. Explanations

Can you guess the meanings of these words?

(page 1) Annie lovedpretend stuff. But Jack was eight pretend ≈ _______________and a half. He liked real things.

Find anantonym for “pretend” in the sentence.

pretend ≠ _______________

(page 3) The ladder went all the way to the top of thetree. There—at the top of the tree—was a tree house. It was tucked between two branches. branches ≈ ______________

Make a picture in your head, to help you understand the words you don’t know.

(page 6) The tree house was filled with books. Bookseverywhere. filled with ≈ _____________

If books are everywhere, are there a lot of books, or not a lot of books?

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Read around the word

Word youdon’t know

Background- Characters (who they are and what they do)

- Setting (time and place)

Setting:

Does the beginning of the book take place in the real world, or a fantasy world?

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In what country and city? ________________________________________________________

Does the beginning of the book take place in the past, present, or future? ___________

Characters:

Who are the two main characters in Dinosaurs Before Dark?

1) ___________________ 2) ___________________

Jack Annie

Boy/girl

Age

What do they like?

Describe them with an adjective

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Predict: Do you think the setting of the book will change, or stay the same?

Synonyms andAntonyms

Write the correct synonym or antonym in the sentence:

1. Jack and Annie were walking in the woods one day, when suddenly Annie

disappeared (= _________________).

2. The tree house is filled with books. Some books are new, but some are ________.

3. Jack likesreal things, but Annie likes ________________ things.

4. Lord Sparr was an evil wizard (= _______________________) who wanted to take

over Droon!

5. Ahmad’s desk is very neat, but Gina’s desk is messy and

_____________________.

6. Ms. Kelsey’s mom and dad live in an enormous house in America, but Ms.

Chloe’s mom and dad live in a ____________________ house. It is very small!

7. Galen gives Eric a cloak. When Eric wears the cloak, you can’t see him! He is

___________________________.

8. It is not safe to play in the street. It is _____________________________.

9. When Omar saw the scary lion, he tried to run away and _________________.

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Reading Comprehension: Chapter 2

1. What is the treehouse filled with?

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2. What can Jack and Annie see from the treehouse?

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3. Which book does Annie like?

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4. Which book does Annie give to Jack?

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5. What dinosaur does Jack see in the dinosaur book? Describe the dinosaur.

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6. What happens to the tree house at the end of Chapter 2?

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Vocabulary Worksheet #2:

real alone far distance race leaves monstercrawl

half ladder rope branches hole neighborspins

creature soaring pretend belongs to own glance notice

1. I love to look up to the sky and see the birds _________________ above me.

2. The ____________________ between Mohammad and Bashar is very short, so they talk all the time.

3. I don’t like the ______________ world. I want to go to Droon!

4. I don’t ____________ a car. My car ______________________ Ms. Lana.

5. Sometimes I want to tie Ibo to his chair with _____________. He can’t stay in his seat!

6. When Salma’s mom goes to the supermarket, she _________________ Salma home alone.

7. Birds live in the ____________________ of trees. There, they make their nests.

8. When you are a baby, you don’t know how to walk yet. You _______________ on your hands and knees.

9. Marwan, I bet I can run faster than you! Let’s ____________________.

10. When I came into the classroom, I didn’t ____________________ Nadeen sitting there. I thought she was absent!

11. There are lots of different ______________________ on the earth: animals that crawl, animals that walk, animals that fly, and some animals that are so small, you can’t even see them!

12. Whenever Rami’s mom gives him chocolate, he gives ____________ to Ms. Dania. Rami is so generous!

13. When the class is taking a test, I always _____________ around the room to see if anyone is cheating.

14. If we dig a ______________ in the ground, can we go to China?

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Reading Comprehension: Chapters 1+2

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The Dinosaur Song

They used to walk,

They used to swim,

They used to fly, with a toothy grin.

Some ate plants,

Some ate meat,

Some walked around on just two feet.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Big as trees.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Brains like peas.

Jaws and claws and teeth and bones,

That used to growl and groan and moan.

Some had feathers,

Some had scales,

Spikes and clubs and whip-like tails.

They fought like dragons,

The earth sure shook,

The volcanoes sizzled,

And the lava cooked.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Big as trees.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Brains like peas.

Jaws and claws and teeth and bones,

That used to growl and groan and moan.

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Tyrannosaurus Rex was a terrible king,

The Stegosaurus’s tail could really swing,

Brachiosaurus liked to stomp,

Trachodon would chew and chomp.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Big as trees.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Brains like peas.

Jaws and claws and teeth and bones,

That used to growl and groan and moan.

They roamed the earth,

A hundred million years,

Without worries, cares, or fears.

Then one day, they hit the soil.

Now they’re fossils, gas, and oil.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Big as trees.

Oh, the dinosaurs!

Brains like peas.

Jaws and claws and teeth and bones,

That used to growl and groan and moan.

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