Written by: Kate DiCamillo Illustrated by: Kevin Hawkes

1. Written by: Kate DiCamilloIllustrated by: Kevin Hawkes Day 1Day 2 Day 3Day 4 Day 5 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources

4. Study Skills • Genre: Realistic Fiction • Comprehension Skill: Sequence • Comprehension Strategy: Summarize • Comprehension Review Skill: Author’s purpose • Vocabulary: Suffixes

5. Genre: Realistic Fiction • InRealistic Fictionthe characters speak and act like real people. • The story describes real-life problems and events. • The outcome, or problem resolution, seems to be reasonable.

6. Summary Moving to a new town can be hard, And making new friends can be even harder. With the help of her dog, Winn Dixie, Opal is able to get to know Miss Franny Block, the local librarian. Miss Block tells Opal an exciting tale about a bear that once wandered into the library.

7. Comprehension Review Skill • Author’s Purposeis the author’s reason or reasons for writing this story. • Authors don’t usually tell you this. You have to figure the reasons out. • It might be to inform or teach, to entertain, to express their feelings, and to persuade or convince you.

8. DAY 1 Question • What experiences bring diverse people together?

9. Vocabulary- Say It! memorial prideful recalls peculiar grand positive selecting

10. More Words to Know attention kindness understanding consisted friendless diversity

11. Comprehension Skill - Summarizing • A summary is a short statement that tells the main ideas of a selection. • A story summary should tell the goals of the characters, how they try to reach them, and whether they reach them. • A summary of an article should tell the main idea, leaving out unnecessary details. Tips on Summarizing

13. Listen to the Story

14. Comprehension Skill –Sequence • Sequence is the order of the events that occur in a story. • You can determine the order of events by clue words such as first and next, in the beginning, then, following, after, and finally. • Some story events may occur at the same time. • Other clue words to indicate sequence might be in the beginning, then, following, after, and finally. • Other story events, such as flashbacks, are told out of order.

16. My dog Bella is a real rascul? Does stray dogs make good pets.

17. Declarative Sentences • These are the most important types of sentences. • These sentences will tell you facts, opinions, and other statements. • This type of sentence will end with a period.

18. Example Declarative Sentences • The sky is blue. • I am a third grade student. • We will go to the movies tomorrow. • He is a great reader. • We have a program in the morning. • Our class is having a party on Friday.

19. Interrogative Sentences • An interrogative sentences asks a question. • This type of sentence is usually asked directly to someone. • This type of sentence ends with a question mark.

20. Examples of Interrogative Sentences • Can you repeat the question? • Are we going to have recess today? • What is your favorite movie? • How do you answer this question? • Do you have an extra pencil?

21. Exclamatory Sentences • This is a sentence that has very strong emotion or surprise. • Exclamatory sentences express the intense feelings of a person. • This type of sentence ends with an exclamation point. (!)

22. Examples of Exclamatory Sentences • What a beautiful day! • I am angry! • You did a great job! • I love the color of your room! • You won the prize! • That is a huge whale!

23. Imperative Sentence An imperative sentence gives a command. It ends with a period. Go to your room. Throw me the ball. Bob, please close the door.

25. Spelling Words

27. DAY 2 Question of the Day • Can an elderly librarian and a little girl really be friends?

28. Vocabulary Skill – Word Structure : Suffixes • The suffix –fulmeans “full of.” For example, prideful means “full of pride.” • The suffix –ly means “in a way that is.” • Sometimes –ful and –ly are added to a base word together as in pridefully, which means “acting in a way that is full of pride.”

29. Let’s Practice Suffixes

30. memorial helping people to remember a person, thing, or event

31. prideful overly proud of oneself; vain

32. recalls calls back to mind; remembers

33. peculiar strange; unusual

34. grand excellent; very good

35. positive without doubt; sure

36. selecting picking out; choosing

37. attention care and thoughtfulness; consideration

38. kindness treatment that does good, rather than harm; gentleness

39. understanding comprehension; knowledge

40. consisted was made up of

41. friendless without friends

42. diversity differences

43. Weekly Fluency Check -Tone of Voice • You will use the rise and fall of your voice to show where the story includes questions and where it is full of emotion. • Go to page 33 and let’s reread the last two paragraphs.

44. 3. I teaching my dog to rol over. 4. Dogs can learn to help blind people. Or works with the police.

45. What kind of sentence is this? Are you going to the movies tonight?

46. Interrogative –because the sentence asks a question

47. What kind of sentence is this? There are many different kinds of animals at the zoo.

48. Declarative –because the sentence makes a statement

49. What kind of sentence is this? Bob has an iPod.

50. Declarative –because the sentence makes a statement