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BEFORE READING
Tech Files ONLINE
Students can learn more about their
local library or other library resources available to them by using a
student-friendly search engine and keywords such as their town or county name. Be sure to follow classroom rules for Internet use
ELL
Build Background Use ELL Poster 1 to build background and vocabulary for the lesson concept of diversity in intergenerational friendships.
ELL Poster 1
ELL Poster 1
Lesson Vocabulary
WORDS TO KNOW
Tested Word grand excellent; very good
Tested Word memorial helping people
to remember a person, thing, or event
Tested Word peculiar strange; unusual
Tested Word positive without doubt; sure
Tested Word prideful overly proud of oneself
Tested Word recalls calls back to mind;
remembers
Tested Word selecting picking out; choosing
MORE WORDS TO KNOW
consisted  was made up of
friendless without friends
Tested Word = Tested Word
Practice Book
Practice Book p. 4
with | without Answers
Build Background
ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
BEGIN A CONCEPT WEB about moving to a new place.
  • Have students come up with as many things as they can about moving to a
    new place, such as new people to meet, new places to explore, and related
    feelings. Record student responses on the concept web. Add an idea of
    your own.
  • Tell students that, as they read, they should look for other ideas or details
    from the story to add to the web.
Graphic Organizer 16
BACKGROUND BUILDING AUDIO This week's audio explores the development of libraries. After students listen, discuss what they found out and what surprised them most about how libraries developed in the United States.
Audio CD Background Building Audio
Introduce Vocabulary
WORDS-IN-CONTEXT CHART
Create a three-column chart in which students read lesson vocabulary words
in context, think about meaning, and provide another example. Context may be
phrases, as shown below, or sentences.
Read each item in the first column with students. Discuss what students
know about each underlined word in context. Then have students provide
a meaning and another example for each word until the chart is complete.
Activate Prior Knowledge
Use the word grand to point out that a word may have more than one meaning.
Ask how having a grand time is different from having a grand house. (A grand
time is a very good or wonderful time, but a grand house is a large and
fancy house.) Multiple Meanings
At the end of the week, students can add other examples for lesson vocabulary
words to their charts or add new selection words.