The Marble Champ Story Vocabulary

Open Court 5th Grade Unit 1 Competition and Cooperation Lesson 2 Marble Champ Melissa Lape – Wilson Elementary

contestcontestathleticathleticmatchmatchenergyenergyplayers players

commotioncommotion

The two classes entered the tug-The two classes entered the tug-of-war of-war contestcontest..

Lupe Medrano was the winner of Lupe Medrano was the winner of the reading the reading contestcontest three three summers in a row.summers in a row.

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““use context use context clues”clues”contestcontest

contest-contest- a competition

Nikki ate dinner with her left Nikki ate dinner with her left hand to spare her marble hand to spare her marble shooting hand, and said nothing shooting hand, and said nothing to her parents of her to her parents of her athleticathletic glory.glory.

Lisa is very Lisa is very athleticathletic. She skis, . She skis, swims, and plays soccer.swims, and plays soccer.

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““use context use context clues”clues”athleticathletic

athleticathletic- having skill and strength in sports and other physical activities

She signed up and was She signed up and was assigned her first assigned her first matchmatch on on baseball diamond number baseball diamond number three.three.

In tennis, a In tennis, a matchmatch between two between two good athletes may last for good athletes may last for hours.hours.

““use context use context clues”clues”matchmatch

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matchmatch- a sports contest

Lupe, one eye closed, her thumb Lupe, one eye closed, her thumb quivering with quivering with energyenergy, blasted , blasted two marbles out of the circle.two marbles out of the circle.

It took all my It took all my energyenergy to climb to climb the big hill.the big hill.

“use context clues”energyenergy

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energyenergy- what makes someone active in

work and at play

Onlookers had gathered too Onlookers had gathered too tightly around the tightly around the playersplayers..

The chess The chess playersplayers were were caught up in their game.caught up in their game.

“use context clues”

players players

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playersplayers – people who take part and play

against each other in matches

Lupe shook hands with everyone, Lupe shook hands with everyone, including a dog who had come including a dog who had come over to see what the over to see what the commotioncommotion was all about.was all about.

The crowd at the soccer game The crowd at the soccer game was so noisy that we could hear was so noisy that we could hear the the commotioncommotion from my house. from my house.

“use context clues”commotioncommotion

Melissa Lape – Wilson Elementarycommotioncommotion - noisy activity, confusion

The Marble Champ - Story The Marble Champ - Story VocabularyVocabulary

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contest- a competitionathletic- having skill and strength in sports and other physical activitiesmatch- a sports contestenergy- what makes someone active in work and at playplayers – people who take part and play against each other in matchescommotion - noisy activity, confusion

The Marble Champ - Story Vocabulary

___________ a competition

__________- of or for athletics or athletes

__________ -a type of business that makes and sells products

________-something that makes more money than the article or service costs

_________ - noisy activity, confusion

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commotioncommotion

commotion - racket disturbance - hubbub

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Give a sentence for each word.

These words are synonyms. Synonyms are words that have almost the same meaning.

whispers marbles muscles thumbs

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These words are regular plurals. Regular plurals are made by simply adding s to the end of a word.

Identify the singular words?

whisper marble muscle thumb

knuckles knee knot know

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These words contain the /n/ sound spelled kn.

Give other examples.

treasure bedspread chess strengthen shelf

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The words contain the /e/ sound spelled e and ea.

The cheering fans created a racket and a hubbub.

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Read the sentence aloud.

Identify the synonyms in the sentence.

Playing marbles can strengthen muscles in the hands.

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Read the sentence aloud.

Identify the regular plurals in the sentence. Give the singular form for each plural.

When I scraped my knees and knuckles, my mom made a fuss.

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Identify words in the sentence that contain the /n/ sound spelled kn.

Read the sentence aloud.

Isabel will treasure the bedspread quilted for her by her grandmother.

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Identify words in the sentence that have the /e/ sound spelled e and ea.