Fourth Grade:

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Fourth Grade Theme 1 Selection 2 This Land is
Your Land
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Sound/Spellings for a

• ai /a/ is used at the beginning or middle of a
  word or syllable
• ay /a/ is used at the end of a word or syllable
• eigh /a/ is a less common spelling
• Examples
• aim air train detail
• day spray Sunday
• sleigh freight

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Sound/Spellings for i

• igh /i/
• Examples
• sigh
• thigh
• frighten

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Sound/Spellings for long a
ai /a/ ay /a/ eigh /a/
braid spray weigh
bait daylight eight
grain dismay sleigh
trait mayonnaise freight
detail eighteen
campaign
raisin
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Sound/Spellings for long i
-igh /i/ -igh /i/
sigh slight
thigh right
tight
height
daylight
twilight
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
braid
campaign
bait
raisin
grain
spray

trait
daylight
detail
dismay
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
mayonnaise
eighteen
weigh
sigh
sleigh
thigh

eight
slight
freight
right
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
tight
height
daylight

twilight
frighten
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• Teacher Read Aloud
• Johnny Appleseed
• Activate Prior Knowledge
• Share what you know about Johnny Appleseed.
• Share what you know about pioneer life in the
  United States.

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• Purpose Setting
• Listen for clues that will help you determine the
  authors purpose for writing Johnny Appleseed.
• This is the story of Johnny Appleseed, an
  American legend. He traveled across the United
  States planting apple trees and sharing his love
  of apples with other people.
• What do you think is the authors main purpose
  for writing this selection?
• Why do you think the author includes a
  description of how Johnny Appleseed looked?

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Build Concept Vocabulary As he traveled,
Appleseed claimed land, cleared it, and planted
seeds
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Build Concept Vocabulary As the new nation began
taking root, John Chapman became an American
pioneer, and before long he would become a legend
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Build Concept Vocabulary He became friends with
Native Americans and settlers in the territories
he visited.
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Concept Vocabulary Web
territories
Places
pioneer
Exploration
People who traveled to new lands
settlers
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• Comprehension Skill
• Authors Purpose
• The authors purpose is the reason or reasons the
  author has for writing.
• An author may write to persuade, to inform, to
  entertain, or to express ideas and feelings.

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Comprehension Skill Authors Purpose
Authors Purpose Why do you think so?
Before you read What do you think it will be?
As you read What do you think it is?
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Strategy Answer Questions Good readers know
where to look for the answers to questions. They
know that sometimes the answer to a question is
in one place. Other times it is in several
places. They know that sometimes they must use
what theyve read plus what they know to answer a
question. That is what you usually have to do to
answer a question about the authors purpose
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• Jeffersons BARGAIN
• Authors Purpose
• Preview the article. Do you think the authors
  purpose is to persuade, to inform, to entertain,
  or to express?
• To answer the skill question, look at the title
  and skim the text. Do you see numbers and dates?
  What purpose do they suggest?
• Is the authors purpose what you thought it would
  be when you previewed the article? Why or why
  not?
• Why did the author ask are you ready? in the
  third paragraph?

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Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogs Tale
Author Laurie Myers
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Genre Historical Fantasy
This genre combines both historic events that
really happened and fantastic events that could
not possibly happen, such as a dog as narrator.
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The Expedition The Lewis and Clark
Expedition was the first expedition of an
overland nature that was taken in the United
States to the Pacific Coast and then back.  The
team of explorers was headed by William Clark and
Meriwether Lewis, and it was assisted by
Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife, Sacajawea. 
The goal of the mission was to get a better
understanding of the resources that would be
exchanged in the Louisiana Purchase.  This
expedition laid a part of the groundwork for the
westward expansion of the United States of
America. 
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Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774
and died on October 11, 1809.  He was an American
soldier, explorer, and a public administrator. 
He is most remembered for his role as the leader
of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, or Corps of
Discovery, along with William Clark to explore
the territory gained from the Louisiana Purchase.
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William Clark was born on August 1, 1770 and
died on September 1, 1838.  He was an American
explorer, Indian agent, soldier, and a
territorial governor.  He was originally a native
of Virginia, but he also grew up in Kentucky
before he settled in what would later become
Missouri.  He led the Lewis and Clark Expedition
with William Clark in 1803 until 1805 to the
Pacific Ocean after crossing the Louisiana
Purchase.
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The Departure from St. Charles, May 21, 1804
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More Books Written by Laurie Myers
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The reason or reasons the author has for writing
to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to
express ideas or feelings.
Authors Purpose
Do you think the authors purpose is to persuade,
to inform, to entertain, or to express?
Synonyms reason intention Big idea



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platforms built on the shore or out from the
shore wharves piers
docks
The pioneers load their belongs onto flatboats
tied to the docks.
Synonyms landing pier wharves




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going from one region to another with the change
in seasons
migrating
Pioneers saw hundreds of squirrels crossing the
river. Were they migrating?
Synonyms leave drift voyage




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to glance at look over hastily
scan
As they traveled, pioneers would scan the country
for food and Indians.

Synonyms investigate scope browse




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a smell
scent
Synonyms odor perfume track trail smell
I stuck my nose in the air and recognized the
scent immediately.


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platform built on the shore or out from the shore
beside which ships can load or unload
wharf
I can see the pioneers with all their goods,
waiting on the wharf in St. Louis.



Synonym dock slip pier

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felt a longing or desire
yearned
My life on the wharves was good, but I was a
young dog and yearned for more.



Synonym longed ached

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Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the
Words?
Authors Purpose
migrating
dock
scan

scent
wharf
yearned
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
Authors Purpose docks migrating scan
scent wharf yearned
Draw! Draw! Draw!
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• Free Association
• When I say a word, you write down any words you
  can think of that remind you of that word.
• For example
• The word is school
• learning
• Science
• pencils
• Reading
• Math
• teachers
• P.E.
• Education

1. Authors Purpose
2. docks
3. migrating
4. scan
5. wharf
6. scent
7. yearned
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• Classifying
• Place the following words in categories
• scent scan
  docks
• migrating authors purpose
  yearned
• wharf
• Decide the names of the categories.
• Determine how many categories.
• Determine which words go in which categories.
• After classifying the words, write a paragraph
  explaining each of the categories and why
  certain words go in a particular category.

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Can You Find the Context Clues?
1. The captain of the ship told the sailors to
______ the horizon for land.
2. The young girl __________ to travel to faraway
places.
3. Fishermen stood along the _______ trying to
catch the evenings meal from the
waters below.
4. The skies overhead are filled with the sounds
of honking geese when they are ____________ south
for the winter.
5. The _________ was crowded with boxes of
food.
6. After reading the selection I have decided
that the ______________ was to inform the reader
about the route of Lewis, Clark, and Seamans
journey.
7. The lone wolf used his nose to follow the
__________ of his prey.
authors purpose, docks, migrating, scan, scent,
wharf, yearned
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Synonym Search Match the vocabulary words on the
left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some
vocabulary words have more than one synonym.
Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
longed f. landing k. wharves p. scope
b. pier g. leave l. browse q. big idea
c. smell h. investigate m. sniff r. odor
d. reason i. drift n. intention s. track
e. perfume j. ached o. voyage
Authors Purpose
docks
migrating
scan
scent
wharf
yearned
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Word Association Challenge

1. Which word goes with conducting a search for
   something? Why?

2. Which word goes with making a wish? Why?
3. Which word goes with dogs tracking or
following the trail of another animal? Why?
4. Which word goes with harbor? Why?
5. Which word goes with herds and flocks? Why?
6. Which word goes with fishing? Why?
7. Which word goes with comprehension? Why?
Word
Bank authors purpose, docks, migrating, scan,
scent, yearned, wharf
Some words can be used more than once. Can you figure out which ones?

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Tell Me What You Know

• Explain situations where you might scan your
  surroundings.
• 2. List animals that are known for migrating to
  the south.
• 3. Think of your favorite story and write what
  the authors purpose was for writing it.
  Remember to tell how you figured
• out the authors purpose.
• 4. Describe things or people you would see at a
  wharf.
• 5. Describe and tell why you have yearned for
  something.
• 6. Imagine yourself standing on the docks looking
  out at the ocean. What could you be doing and
  why?
• 7. Describe your favorite scent and tell when you
  smell it.