Theme 4

Selection 1

Selection 3

Selection 2

Selection 4

Problem Solvers

Problem Solvers

What do you think the Theme title means? Who are problem solvers? What are some problems you solve everyday?

Genre:

Realistic Fiction

Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot

Problem Solvers

Purposes for Reading• Strategy focus:

predict/infer• Comprehension skill:

predict outcomes• Vocabulary development• Critical thinking, discussion

Strategy Focus:Strategy Focus:Predict /Infer

Infer:How would I feel in this situation? What would I do?

Predict:How will the character act?

Infer by thinking about how you would act, or what you would do in this situation. Then predict what will happen in the story.

Key VocabularyKey Vocabulary• attentively

• disappointed

• nervously

• drizzle

• troublesome

• revolved

• pageant

• rededication• misunderstanding

attentively

with attention or alertness

disappointed

feeling like things didn’t go the way you hoped

nervously

with concern, worry, or fear

drizzle

light rain

troublesome

Causing problems

revolved

to be centered around a particular thing

pageant

a play based on events in history

rededication

making holy again

misunderstanding

a failure to understand

Spelling FocusSpelling Focus/k/, /ng/, and /kw/ sounds

• shark

• attack

• risk

• public

• sink

• question

• electric

• jacket

• blank

• ache

• crooked

• drink

• topic

• track

• blanket

• struck

• mistake

• junk

• squirrel

• stomach

• aquatic

• comic

• tropical

• speckled

• peculiar

Genre:

Realistic Fiction

Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot

Problem Solvers

Purposes for Reading• Strategy focus:

evaluate• Comprehension skill:

problem solving• Vocabulary development• Critical thinking, discussion

Strategy Focus:Strategy Focus:Evaluate

Evaluate:

What story elements help me visualize

the world the boy is in?

In this story, a boy faces challenges in an unfamiliar place. Evaluate how well the author helps you see this new world through the boy’s eyes.

Key VocabularyKey Vocabulary• bunkhouse• Cords (of wood)

• immense

• landscape

• lumberjacks

• snowshoes

• timber

• woodsman

bunkhouse

a building in a camp where a group of people sleep

cords (of wood)

measures for stacks of cut wood

immense

Huge, very large

landscapea stretch of land

lumberjacks

people who chop down trees and haul the wood to a sawmill

showshoes

frames attached to shoes and used for walking across snow

timbertrees that can be used as building wood

woodsman

a person who works or lives in a forest

Spelling FocusSpelling FocusFinal /e/

• beauty

• ugly

• lazy

• marry

• ready

• sorry

• empty

• honey

• valley

• movie

• duty

• hungry

• lonely

• alley

• body

• twenty

• turkey

• hockey

• fifty

• monkey

• fiery

• envy

• mercy

• chimney

• imaginary

Spelling FocusSpelling FocusFinal /e/

• heavy

• many

• lady

• tiny

• quickly

• family

• melody

• plenty

• dizzy

• cheery

• eighty

• machinery

• sweaty

• finally

• closely

• Mississippi

• comedy

• mystery

• cruelty

• soapy

• fiery

• envy

• mercy

• chimney

• imaginary