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Unit 1, Lesson 3Unit 1, Lesson 3Unit 1, Lesson 3Unit 1, Lesson 3The Tree HouseThe Tree House

Day 1Day 1

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Word Knowledgeoutside inside shiny dull beautiful

uglyopen close down up wide narrow top bottom

• Whisper read these words.• Read them after me. • These words contain pairs of words that are

antonyms or opposites.

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Word Knowledgeboard bored for fourno know hole whole

• Whisper read these words.• Read them with me.• These words are homophones. They sound

the same, but they are spelled differently and have different meanings.

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Word Knowledgehung rehung take retake

make remake• Whisper read these words.• Read them with me.• These are all verbs with the prefix “re.”• “Re” means again.

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Word Knowledgetrunk tree branches

wood

• Whisper read these words.• Read them with me.• How are all of these words related?• Add some more words that would fit this

category.

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Word Knowledgeinto with lift visit window

• Whisper read these words.• Read them with me.• What sound do all of these words have in

common?

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Word Knowledge The boards were crooked, and the roof

had holes where the pieces of wood didn’t quite meet.

• Whisper read this sentence.• Read it with me.• What is the homophone for “hole?”

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Word Knowledge Chrissy wondered what Leah had inside

her tree house.

• Whisper read the sentence.• Read it with me.• What words in this sentence are related

to tree house?

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Word Knowledge There was a little porch where you

could sit with your legs dangling.

• Whisper read this sentence.• Read the sentence with me.• What is the antonym of little?

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Word KnowledgeYou can get fresh air if you lift open a window.

• Whisper read this sentence.• Read it with me.• Which words have the /i/ sound?

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Genre• The characters behave as people do in

real life. The setting of the story is a real place or could be a real place.

• The setting of the story is a real place or cold be a real place.

• The events in the story could happen in real life.

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Meet the Author• Turn to page 61 in your anthology.• Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu,

Hawaii. Her father was in the army, so the family lived in many different places. She even attended junior high school in Tokyo, Japan.

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Lois Lowry• She taught herself to read before

she was four years old when she realized that letters made sounds, sounds made words, words made sentences, and sentences made stories.

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Lois Lowry• She was so excited by her

discovery that she says, “It was then that I decided that one day I would write books.” She wrote her first children’s book when she was forty years old, in honor of her sister, Helen, who died of cancer.

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Lois Lowry• Since then she has published

many children’s stories, some of them based upon the lives of her own children.

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Meet the Illustrator• Trina Schart Hyman worked many

years before she became a famous children’s illustrator. She started drawing when she was young and went on to art schools in her hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Trina Schart Hyman• While living in Sweden, she got her

first job illustrating Pippi Longstocking. It took her only two weeks. She later returned to the United States and had many rejections before getting work as an illustrator.

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Trina Schart Hyman• In 1985 she won a Caldecott Award,

one of the most important awards for children’s books, for Saint George and the Dragon. Trina Schart Hyman is known for using people from her life, including her neighbors, friends, their children, and her children, in her illustrations.

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The Tree House

Vocabulary

magnificent

• very beautiful

marvelous

• outstanding

beautiful

• lovely, pleasing to look at

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Peered• look intently

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Height• how tall something is

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The queen wore a ____ crown.

• height• beautiful• magnificent• peered• marvelous

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That chocolate cake tastes ___.

• height• beautiful• magnificent• peered• marvelous

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You can measure the ___ of something with a ruler.• height• beautiful• magnificent• peered• marvelous

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He ____ at the birds through his binoculars.

• height• beautiful• magnificent• peered• marvelous

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Matching Vocabulary• 1. beautiful• 2. height• 3. magnificent• 4. peered• 5. marvelous

a. outstandingb. great, wonderfulc. lovely, pleasing

to look atd. lookede. how tall

something is

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The Tree House• You have ten minutes to whisper read

the story. As you read fill out your Clues, Problems and Wonderings sheet. Remember that you must have three entries in each column.

• Be sure to put your name and date on the Clues, Problems and Wonderings.

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Clues, Problems & Wonderings

• Let’s share just a few of our Clues, Problems and Wonderings.

• Put your Clues, Problems and Wonderings in your reading folder.

• Put your books in your desk.

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Spelling Pretest• I will say the word, use it in a

sentence and then say the word again.

• I will ask you to say the word out loud and then write the word.

• I will not repeat words, so listen carefully.

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Verbs• Show actions of the subject of a

sentence.

• Morgan ran down the street.• Dimitrius wrote a story about his

trip to Canada.

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• Show condition of the subject of a sentence.

• Jessica is tall.• Robert was ill.

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• Show state of being of the subject of a sentence.

• Jasmine and Jamier are happy.• Doug and Nirmit are in the room.

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Linking Verbs• Some state-of-being verbs can

also be linking verbs.

• I am a teacher. Am is the linking verb; it links the noun, teacher to the subject, I.

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Linking Verbs• They are both very tall.

• Are is the linking verb; it links the adjective, tall, to the subject, they.