Unit 1, Week 4 The Astronaut and the Onion

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Unit 1, Week 4The Astronaut and the Onion

• ONeal Elementary
• 4th Grade

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Vocabulary

• endless having no limit or end, without a finish
• realistic showing people, things, or events as
  they appear in everyday life
• universe everything that exists, including
  Earth, the other planets, stars, and space
• astronaut a person trained to fly in a
  spacecraft
• sensible showing good judgment
• protested complained or objected to something
• paralyzed unable to move or act

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Vocabulary Context Clues

• Sometimes the meaning of an unfamiliar word can
  be found by looking at surrounding words in the
  same sentences. The meaning of those surrounding
  words can be clues.
• Context Clues

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Vocabulary Words in Contextparalyzed, sensible,
astronaut, protested, realistic, universe, endless

• Dr. Street became an ________ because she loved
  to fly.
• Traveling through space changed Dr. Streets view
  of the _________.
• Gloria was ________ with fear when she threw the
  onion.
• Gloria told her teacher about meeting Dr. Street.
  I thought you were more _______ than to tell a
  story like that, he said.
• Gloria ________ that she was telling the truth.
• It just didnt seem ________ that a famous person
  would be in the local supermarket!
• Dr. Street described space as a wonderful
  _________ place.

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Word Study Dictionary Pronunciation and Meaning

• A dictionary tells the readers the meaning of a
  word.
• The reader will have to decide which meaning is
  being used from the context.
• A dictionary includes symbols that show how to
  pronounce each part of a word and which part is
  accented.
• dictionary test tutor

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Word Study Dictionary Pronunciation and Meaning

• Bethany walked down the produce aisle.
• A) produce verb (pre dus) To bring forth yield
• B) produce noun (pro dus) farm products,
  especially fruits and vegetables
• At the music store I bought a new record.
• A) record noun (rek erd) a disc on which sounds
  are recorded to be played back
• B) record verb (ri kord) to set down in
  permanent form

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Word Study Dictionary Pronunciation and Meaning

• The stain was so minute that my friend could
  hardly see it.
• A) minute adjective (mi nut) very small tiny
• B) minute noun (min it) a unit of time equal to
  60 seconds

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Vocabulary Story Words

• Orbits are circular paths that heavenly bodies
  travel in around other bodies.
• Craters are deep pits or valleys.
• An object is said to rotate when it turns around
  in a circle.
• An exploration is a journey into an unknown
  place.
• pennants long, narrow flags shaped like
  triangles
• time warp a shift in the progress of time that
  causes it to stop, slow down, or speed up

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Fluency Intonation/Pausing

• Good readers learn to read groups of words
  together in phrases.
• A comma means to pause and a punctuation mark
  means to stop.
• Good readers vary the tone, pitch, and intonation
  with the character and the feeling expressed in
  the quoted words.

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Fluency Intonation/Pausing

• Read the sentences below, listen carefully to
  your pauses and intonation as you read. A single
  slash indicates a pause, usually between phrases
  pr a persons words and a the name or pronoun of
  the person speaking. A double slash indicates a
  stop, usually between sentences.
• I heard a womans voice. // I have your
  onion. //
• I opened my eyes. // The woman in the jogging
  suit handed the onion to me. //
• Lucky I used to play baseball, / she said. //
• O-o-o-h, / I said. // I clutched the onion.
  //
• O-o-o-h, / I moaned again. //
• Youre welcome, / was all she said. //
• She had brown eyes with a sparkle in them, /
  and her hair was in shiny black ringlets. // She
  wore blue-green earrings that hung on tiny gold
  chains. //

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PhonicsDecode Words with Long i

• In words with /i/ sounds, the long I can be
  spelled several different ways. The most common
  ways to spell the /i/ sound are i-consonant-e as
  in file, ie as in pie, or y as in spy.
• Other ways of spelling this sound include igh
  and in sigh, I as in climb, and ei as in height.

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PhonicsDecode Words with Long i

• Read the following words aloud and point out how
  the long i is spelled.
• climb slight sly wipe die

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PhonicsDecode Words with Long i

• Sort the following words by how the long /i/
  sound is spelled height, insight, arrived,
  paralyzed, clarify, nighttime, heightened,
  mindfully, organize, clothesline

i-consonant-e ie y -igh i ei


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ComprehensionMake Inferences/ Analyze Character

• Like real people, characters in stories have
  traits, or qualities that give them their
  personalities.
• A characters emotions can change often. A
  characters traits are longer lasting parts of
  their personality.
• Good readers begin to analyze a characters
  traits by noting how he or she is described by
  the author or the other characters.
• Good readers also pay attention to the
  characters words, and actions to help identify
  character traits.

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ComprehensionMake Inferences/ Analyze Character

• Major Character the characters who are described
  in greatest detail by the author and whose
  actions are most important to the plot of the
  story
• Minor Character a character who does not have
  such importance to the plot and who are not as
  fully developed

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ComprehensionAnalyze Character
ComprehensionMake Inferences/ Analyze Character

• Reread what Ana says in the last paragraph on
  page 84 then fill out the character web. As you
  read look for clues that tell you what kind of
  person she is.

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ComprehensionMake Inferences/ Analyze Character

• Inference Character Actions
• Character Tutor

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Comprehension Point of View

• A story is told from the point of view of a
  narrator, wither in the first person or the third
  person.
• First person when a story is told by a character
  who refers to himself or herself as I or me
• Third Person when the narrator is not a
  character and may know the thoughts of several or
  all the characters

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Text Feature Diagram

• Diagrams can help a reader visualize information
  explained in the text.
• Diagrams usually contain labels that help to
  identify each part.
• Captions explain the diagram as a whole.
• Diagrams provide additional information that may
  not appear within the text.
• Look at the diagram on page 103 and calculate how
  many miles is earth from the sun.

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Reflection Day 1

• How might Glorias character traits help her
  become an astronaut? Use Character Web and story
  details to support your answer.

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Reflection Day 2

• How would you summarize what Dr. Street
  experienced in space?
• Why do you think Gloria shivers when she tries to
  imagine what Dr. Street saw?

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Reflection Day 3

• Re-read page 91 where the word paralyzed is used.
  What is another word for paralyzed? What
  information in the story helps you know.

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Reflection Day 4

• Describe what Gloria is like. Explain why her
  character is important to the story. Use three
  details from the story in your answer.

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Reflection Day 5

• Describe how Gloria figures out who the woman is.
  What does this tell you about Gloria?