Boom TownDay 2

Written by Sonia Levitin

Illustrated by John Sandford

Skill: Realism and Fantasy

Genre: Historical Fiction

Question of the Day

• What type of person is well suited to living in a new town?

Phonics Objectives

• Use word parts to decode short vowel words with the syllable pattern VC/CV.

• Blend and read words that contain the syllable pattern VC/CV.

• Apply decoding strategies: blend longer words.

dollar

– Which letters in the first syllable are consonants? – Which letter is a vowel? – Is the vowel in the first syllable of dollar long or short?

– When there is only one vowel at the beginning or in

the middle of a word or syllable, the vowel usually stands for its short sound.

– Do you think the vowel in the first syllable of the second word is long or short?

sudden

• When I come to a word I don't know, I divide it into syllables and sound out each syllable.

• The first syllable of this word has a vowel between two consonants, so the vowel probably stands for its short sound.

Decode

spelling pencilwinner

pollen monster putter

biscuit tadpole

Read the word. What is the short vowel in the first syllable?

Read the words in context

• I hope the puppies act better when they grow up.

• Bees get pollen in the summer.• We have hidden the key near the

window.

Read the sentence. Which words have two syllables? Is the vowel in the first syllable long or short?

Vocabulary Strategy - Homonyms

Objectives:

• Use context clues to determine the meaning of words that are homonyms.

Vocabulary Strategy - Homonyms

• Sometimes when you are reading, you may see a word you know, but the meaning you know doesn't make sense in the sentence. How can that be?

• The word might be a homonym. Homonyms are words that are pronounced and spelled the same but have different meanings.

• For example, bat means "a stick used to hit a ball." Bat also means "a flying animal."

Vocabulary Strategy - Homonyms

• If a word you know doesn't make sense in the sentence, it might be a homonym.

• Look at the words around it. Can you figure out another meaning?

• Try the new meaning in the sentence. Does it make sense?

• As you read “Gold Rush,“ look for words that are homonyms. Remember to try to figure out another meaning for words that might be homonyms. See which makes sense in the sentence.

Small Group

• Read “Boom Town”, pages 16 – 27

Choral Reading

• Listen as I read aloud p. 18.

• Notice that I read all of the words as written and that I do not omit or substitute any words.

• Now we’ll read p. 18 three times together.

Many communities grew because

of geographic features such as transportation

routes, climate, or location of natural resources. Gold fueled the growth of many communities in California during the middle of the 19th century. The first major gold discovery in North America occurred at Sutter's Mill in 1848. By the next year, over 80,000 "forty-niners" swamped the California gold fields in search of fortune. The California Gold Rush led to the growth of many small towns. As supplies of gold ran out, though, many places were abandoned and became ghost towns. For the most part, only towns that had developed different kinds of businesses managed to survive after the gold supply ran out.

GrammarDay 2

Objectives:Define and identify sentences. Distinguish between sentences and fragments.

1. Soon there was more trafic in the town

Soon there was more traffic in the town.

2. Does any one need new shoes

Does anyone need new shoes?

Guided Practice

• A sentence tells a complete thought.

• A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark.

• A fragment is a group of words that does not tell a complete thought.

SpellingDay 2

Objective:Spell VCCV words, which usuallyhave short vowel sounds.

VCCV Pattern

• Vowels have the short sound when they are followed by two consonants.

• happen lettuce basket

• Look at happen. The a is followed by two consonants (pp).

• Let’s find the pattern in lettuce and basket.

• Now let’s find the pattern in our spelling words!

GREAT JOB!GREAT JOB!