Because of WinnDixie

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Because of Winn-Dixie

• By Kate DiCamillo

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What experiences bring diverse people together?
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Genre

• Realistic Fiction
• has characters and events that are like people
  and events in real life

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This weeks TRADE BOOKS

• Something to Do
• Florida Everglades
• The Story of Libraries
• use your time wisely
• READ CAREFULLY before you take an AR test!!!

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Child of the Silent Night

• attention- care thoughtfulness
• kindness- gentleness
• understanding- comprehension
• When did Lauras parents realize Laura had lost
  her sight and hearing?
• What were the steps in her recovery? Describe
  them in order.

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Sequence

• Events in a story happen in a certain order.
• When you read, think about what comes first,
  next, last, ..
• Identifying the sequence, or order, of events in
  a story can help you understand what you are
  reading.

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Summarize

• Good readers sum up the important events in a
  story as they read.
• Summarizing main events and the order in which
  they happened can help you remember important
  information.

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Vocabulary Words

• Study your words and their definitions each day.

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grand

• Excellent very good
• When have you done something grand?
• What are two meaning for grand?
• I had a grand time at the party.
• I saw the grand house.

• What rhymes with grand?
• Who can make a sentence?

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memorial

• Helping people to remember a person, thing, or
  event
• Have you ever been part of a memorial service or
  have you ever seen a memorial?
• Who can make a sentence?

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peculiar

• Strange or unusual
• Have you ever seen something peculiar? What?
• What is a synonym for peculiar?
• Who can make a sentence?

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positive

• Without doubt sure
• Numbers can be positive or negative.
• Have you ever been positive about something?
  What?
• What is an antonym for positive?
• Who can make a sentence?

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prideful

• Overly proud of oneself
• Is is good or bad to be prideful?
• How does it make you feel when someone is
  prideful?
• What is an antonym for prideful?
• Who can make a sentence?

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recalls

• Calls back to mind remembers
• When do you have to recall information?
• What is an antonym for recall?
• Who can make a sentence?

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selecting

• Picking out choosing
• What is something you have selected?
• Is it easy of hard to select something?
• Who can make a sentence?

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More words to know

• consisted- was made up of
• friendless- without friends

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Suffixes

• Look for word parts, such as a base word and a
  suffix.
• Ask yourself how the suffix changes the meaning
  of the base word.
• Try the meaning in the sentence to see if it
  makes sense.
• ful means full of
• al means of or like

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Authors Purpose

• The author uses lots of descriptive words
• strong, peculiar smell
• the bear was three times the size of
• Winn-Dixie

• The author probably wants to entertain
  us.

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Black Bears

• Genre Expository nonfiction provides information
  about people, places, animal, and other things in
  the real world.
• Sequence Is sequence always important in what
  you read?
• Summarize Who can summarize this selection?

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Fluency Tone of Voice

• Your voice should rise and fall when you read
  questions, to emphasize words and where there is
  lots of emotion.
• Your tone changes to match the way people speak.

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Sequence

• Events in a story happen in a certain order.
• When you read, think about what comes first,
  next, last, ..
• Identifying the sequence, or order, of events in
  a story can help you understand what you are
  reading.

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Idiom

• An IDIOM is a phrase or expression whose meaning
  can not be understood from the ordinary meaning
  of the words that form it.
• You figure out the meaning of an idiom by
  figuring out what makes sense based on what you
  read.

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Idiom

• Examples
• He has a big heart.
• Hold your horses.
• A broken heart.
• Run an errand.
• Chase rainbows.
• Have the blues.
• Green around the gills

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Research Study Skills

• A MAP is a drawing of a place that shows where
  something is or where something happened.
• Every map has a LEGEND that has a COMPASS ROSE to
  show direction, a SCALE to show distance, and a
  KEY to show symbols.

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Research Study Skills

• A GLOBE is a sphere with a map of the world.
• An ATLAS is a book of maps.

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