Fifth Grade: Theme 1

Selection 3Meeting Challenges

Sound/Spellings Long Vowel Digraphs

(Digraphs are two letters that make one sound) •ai /ā/ as in maintain•ee /ē/ as in sneeze•ea /ē/ as in appeal•oa /ō/ as in charcoal•ow /ō/ as in bungalow

ai ee ea oa owSpain speech feast coast arrow

paint needle wheat charcoal willow

praise breeze crease groan bowling

faint sneeze appeal bungalow

maintain dungarees

complain speedometer

campaign referee

Spelling FluencyHow Fast Can You Read the Words?

coast

needle

paint

speech

feast arrow

charcoalwheat

Spain praise

Spelling FluencyHow Fast Can You Read the Words?

faint

bowling

willow

crease

maintain appeal

complaingroan

breeze sneeze

Spelling FluencyHow Fast Can You Read the Words?

dungarees

campaign

bungalow

speedometer

referee

Teacher Read Aloud:

The Sign of the Beaver

Activate Prior Knowledge:Share what you know about

surviving in the wild.

Purpose Setting:

After hearing the title, predict what the selection will be about. Listen for clues to the setting.

Attean, a Native American boy, and Matt are hungry and far from camp. Attean shows Matt how to make a fire and cook the fish they caught.

1.Describe the time and place for this story.2.What lessons does Attean teach Matt?

Build Concept VocabularyHe drew from his muskrat-skin pouch a piece of hard stone with bits of quartz embedded in it.

In fact he had done it many a time, but he had not realized that he could use a common stone as well as his flint.

By the time he had the two fish split and gutted and washed in the creek, Attean had a fire blazing.

He watched as Attean cut two short branches, bending them first to make sure they were green.

Concept Vocabulary Web

Survival

Cooking

Toolsgutted

quartz

flintgreen

Comprehension Skill:Theme and Setting

•The theme is the underlying meaning of a story.•The theme is often not stated. You can figure out a theme when you have finished reading from events and other evidence in the story.•The setting is where and when the story takes place. Writers use details, such as sights and sounds, to describe it.

Theme and Setting

Setting

sounds

sights

smells

feelings

tastes

Strategy:Visualize

Active readers create pictures of the story in their minds as they read. The sights, smells, sounds, tastes, and feelings described by the author all help you visualize the setting, the characters, and the events.

Alone

family’s log cabin

horses trotting

cows, barn

food

unsure, nervous

potato soup

wagon wheels

creaking

wolves howling

lonely

outdoors

rustling of the grass

Theme: Surviving by Yourself

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Author: Scott O’Dell

Genre: Historical Fiction

•Historical fiction is a combination of imagination and fact.•The characters are fictional.•The plot is placed in a factual historical setting.

Island of the Blue Dolphin takes place on the San Nicolas Island located in

the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

San Nicolas Island

More Books Written by Scott O’Dell

bitten at or worn away

gnawed

Wild animals like it and soon would have gnawed the fence down.

Synonyms:chewednibbledwear

headland

Synonyms:bluffcliffpeak

If your island had a headland, it would provide a good high point from which to look out for rescue.

a narrow ridge of high land jutting out into the water

any of various large, tough, brown seaweeds

kelp

Between them I wove many strands of bull kelp, which shrinks as it dries and pulls very tight.

Synonyms:

den or resting place of a wild animal

lair

The first thing I found, which I had forgotten, was that this place was near the wild dogs’ lair.

Synonyms:caveden

a long, deep, narrow, valley eroded by running water

ravine

It was much easier to reach, since it came from the side of a hill and not from a ravine

as the other one did.

Synonym:

pass

gorge

a water animal with a shell

shellfish

Synonym:lobstercraboyster

I ate shellfish and perch which I cooked on a flat rock.

tendon

I would have used seal sinew to bind the ribs together, for this is stronger than kelp, but wild animals like it.

sinew

Synonym:musclepower

Vocabulary FluencyHow Fast Can You Read the Words?

gnawed

ravine

headland

kelp

shellfish

lair

sinew

gnawed headland kelp lair

ravine shellfish sinew

Draw! Draw! Draw!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!

Free AssociationWhen 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:

1. learning 2. Science 3. pencils 4. Reading 5. Math 6. teachers 7. P.E. 8. Education

1. gnawed2. headland3. kelp4. lair5. ravine6. shellfish7. sinew

Classifying

Place the following words in categories: gnawed headland kelp lair ravine shellfish sinew

• 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.

gnawed; headland; kelp; lair; ravine; shellfish; sinew

Can You Find the Context Clues?1. The _________________ is a good location to build a hut because it

blocks the wind.2. My family enjoys ordering ______________________ at the wharf.

3. I heard the howling of wolves in their _______________ from my hut.

4. People use _____________ to make wallpaper.

5. The dock has been ________________ by the sea lions.

6. If you use ______________ for stabilizing the fence, it will last longer.

7. The steeply wooded ________ descends to a private beach.

Synonym SearchMatch the vocabulary words on the left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some vocabulary words have more than one synonym. Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a. pass f. lobster k. nibble

b. wear g. cave L bluff

c. muscle h. chewed m. oyster

d. crab i. gorge n. peak

e. cliff j. den o

gnawed

headland

lair

ravine

shellfish

sinew

Word Association Challenge1. Which word goes with sightseeing ? Why?

Word Bank

gnawed; headland; kelp; lair; ravine; shellfish; sinew

2. Which word goes with splintered wood? Why?

3. Which word goes with erosion? Why?

4. Which word goes with iodine? Why?

5. Which word goes with body building? Why?

6. Which word goes with spending time together? Why?

7. Which word goes with vegetation ? Why?

Some words can be used more than once. Can you figure out which ones?

1. Describe the details of the sights and sounds when standing on the headland of a beautiful island.

2. Compare and contrast kelp and sinew.

3. What are the causes and effects of a dock that has been gnawed by sea animals?

4. If you were all alone on an island, how would you use the natural resources such as island and sea vegetation and shellfish to survive?

5. Explain the dangers of trying to walk down a ravine.

Tell Me What You Know