VocabularyWord Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4Shift

FortunatelyRotate

Trudged

BoardedIgnore

Battling

Mentioned

Title: Walter’s Week

Author: Sam R. McColl

Genre: Narrative

Reading Goal: Clarify words and ideas in sentences, paragraphs, and passages.

Team Cooperation Goal: Help and Encourage Others

Essential Question: How can we clarify a word or part of the story that we don’t know or understand?

Think Pair Share

What do you think helping and encouraging others means?

How can you help and encourage others?

shift

Time one is at work

My dad works an eight hour shift at his office

fortunately luckily

Even though I hadn’t practiced, fortunately I did well at the track meet.

rotate

Spin, turn

When the wheels rotate, the car goes forward.

trudged

Walked slowly and sadly

Jack trudged to the principal’s office, knowing he was in trouble.

boarded

Climbed on, as a bus or plane

Martina boarded the plane ten minutes before it took off.

ignore

Pay no attention to

Joanne tried to ignore her little brother so he’d go away.

battling

fighting The squirrels were battling over the last

acorn under the tree.

mentioned

Spoke about, referred to

The movie star mentioned her parents in her speech.

Clarify Figure out how to pronounce (say) a word

or a word’s meaning (definition) by using strategies.Don’t know how to say it?

Don’t know what it means?

Blend It Read On

Chunk It Use Context

Look for a base word Mind Movie

Reread Reread

Background Knowledge

What does it mean to clarify?

Figure out how to say a word or a word’s meaning by using strategies.

Let’s try clarifying any confusing parts in this paragraph

Spencer counted out his money. He had $5.43. He went to the pet store and asked the clerk, “May I please have two goldfish?” The clerk gave Spencer the rabbits and his $10 change.

Let's try another one:

My mom thought it would be nice if the whole family spent some time together, so she planned a family picnic at the park. We packed all the food in the cooler and brought a blanket and a baseball so we could play catch. My sister said she was going to bring her sleeping bag and pajamas.

At the park, we ate all the food, played some catch, and then packed up our stuff. On our way home, we dropped my sister off at her friend’s house for her friend’s slumber party.

Listening Comprehension

Tim’s Practice is a story about a boy who is practicing for a competition.

Listen to how I clarify as I read.

Walter’s Week

A story about a young boy who isn’t having a very good week.

Has anyone ever had a bad week? What kinds of things can you learn from

bad times?

Preview Team Talkpg. 11

Team Talk question #1 focuses on our

reading goal: Clarifying

Partner Reading – 15 minutes

Partner Read- Page 19 and 20

Silent Read- Page 21 and 22- As you read, stop to clarify- Also, stop to retell your partner what they read- If finished early, reread page 21 together for

fluency practice.

Team Discussion – Help and Encourage Eachother!

Clarify sticky words with your team Discuss the team talk questions Write the answers to numbers 1 and 2 ONLY Vocabulary Practice Team Talk Extender: How does Walter feel at

the end of Monday? How would you feel and why?

If finished, practice fluency on page 21

Class Discussion

What were some of the words your team clarified?

Let’s look at our answers for the team talk questions

Team Talk Extender: How did Walter feel by the end of Monday? How would you feel and why?

Adventures in Writing

Page 10

Learned that you

can’t always

win

Had to be taken back to school in a van and placed last

Slipped and fell down a

hill

Bad day at a track meet