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Dare to be Great
Nothing Ever Happens on
90th Street90 Street
By Roni Schotter
Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker
Question of the Day
• If you were asked to write a composition about life in your neighborhood, what details would you include?include?
Realistic Fiction
Contain:
• Characters who behave like real people.people.
• Characters with problems that might happen in real life.
Focus Skill (p. 438-439)Make Inferences
Objective of Focus Skill:
• To make inferences about text
• To support inferences with text • To support inferences with text evidence and personal experience
• Infer: to draw conclusions based on what you read.
What theWhat theAuthor SaysAuthor Says
What I What I Already KnowAlready Know
InferenceInference
Min looked at Sometimes, Min does not
her carwash
supplies and
scowled.
when I am
frustrated
or upset, I
scowl.
want to
wash any
more cars.
Genre Study
• Realistic Fiction has characters and events that are like people and events in real life.
• As you read our story this week, look for:• As you read our story this week, look for:
• 1) characters who have feelings that real people have
• 2) a main character who overcomes a challenge
Vocabulary
• hiatus
• embarked
• gourmet
• throng• embarked
• unimaginable
• extravagant
• precarious
hiatus
A hiatus is a break for a period of time between eventsevents
embarkedIf you have embarked on a journey, you have begun a new adventure.adventure.
unimaginable
If something is unimaginable, it is impossible to think that it think that it might happen or exist.
extravagant
Something extravagant is much more costly or elaborate than or elaborate than what is really needed.
gourmet
Gourmet is food that is expensive, rare, or carefully prepared.prepared.
throng
A throng is a crowd of people.
precarious
In a precarious situation, things are uncertain and can suddenly can suddenly become dangerous.