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Genre: BiographyVocabulary Strategy: Context CluesComprehension Skill: Fact and OpinionComprehension Strategy: Predict

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Question of the Week:How can paleontologists help us understand the past?

Daily Questions:

Why did Waterhouse want to build dinosaurs?

Why do you think the public was so excited to see Waterhouse’s dinosaur exhibit?

Do you think the job of a paleo-artist is important? Explain.

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Transparency: Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs

Practice Book

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Spelling

Strategy

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Writing Workshop

Reading Writing Connection Writing Prompt

Writer’s Craft Editing and Revising

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Day 1Daily Fix It

1. Have you saw the dinosaur exhibit.

Have you seen the dinosaur exhibit?

2. It’s displays include every dinosaur I ever knowed about.

Its displays include every dinosaur I ever knew about.

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Day 2Daily Fix It

1. The sientist speaked about dinosaur bones and fossils.

The scientist spoke about dinosaur bones and fossils.

2. Them bones are bigger than any I have seed.

Those bones are bigger than any I have seed.

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Day 3Daily Fix It

1. How does the sculptor make a muscel on a jigantic model?

How does the sculptor make a muscle on a gigantic model?

2. The artist had drawn a sene of dinosaurs, and prehistoric plants.

The artist had drawn a scene of dinosaurs and prehistoric plants.

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Day 4Daily Fix It

1. Scientists have wrote many books on dinosaurs!

Scientists have written many books on dinosaurs.

2. They have telled how new discoverys were made.

They have told how new discoveries were made.

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Day 5Daily Fix It

1. Hawkins became famus for his dinosaur modles.

Hawkins became famous for his dinosaur models.

2. He brought dinosaurs to the public and people was fascinated.

He brought dinosaurs to the public, and people were fascinated.

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Spelling StrategyMemory Tricks

Some words seem so tricky to spell that we need to outsmart them with tricks of our own.

Step 1: Mark the letters that give you a problem.

Step 2: Find words you know with those same letters.

Step 3: Use your problem word and the word you know in a phrase or sentence.

Example:

Jotting notes in my journal

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Writing Prompt

Write a feature story using information from a selection in your book or from another story you have read. Describe a newsworthy event. Your purpose is to entertain and inform your audience. Include vivid details and begin with an attention-grabbing lead. Choose the best headline or title for your story.

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Editing/Revising Checklist

• Is each topic sentence supported with strong details?

• Have I used principal parts of irregular verbs correctly?

• Have I spelled words with consonant sounds /j/, /ks/, /sk/, and /s/ correctly?

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Activate Prior Knowledge

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Dinosaur Models

You can find dinosaur models in museums.

They can be life-sized.

How do they make dinosaur models today?What is the larges dinosaur model?

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Fact and Opinion

• You can prove a statement of fact true or false. You can do this by using you own knowledge, asking an expert, or checking a reference source such as an encyclopedia, a nonfiction text, or a dictionary.

• A statement of opinion gives ideas or feelings, not facts. It cannot be proved true or false.

•A sentence may contain both a statement of fact and a statement of opinion.

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Statement-Can it be proved true or false?

Opinion -- No Fact -- Yes How to check?

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Predict

Active readers try to predict what they will learn when they read a nonfiction article. Preview the article. Predict whether you will read mostly statements of fact or statements of opinion. This will help focus your reading. After you read, see whether your prediction was correct.

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Write:

1. Read “Dinosaurs.” Use the graphic organizer above to find two opinions and three facts. For each fact you write, explain how you could check it.

2. Write two facts you know about dinosaurs and one opinion you have about them.

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Word Rating Chart

Word Know Have Seen Don’t Know

erected

foundations

mold

occasion

proportion

tidied

workshop

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Erected

Put up; built

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Foundations

Parts on which the other parts rest for support; bases

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Mold

A hollow shape in which anything is formed, cast, or solidified.

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Occasion

A special event.

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ProportionA proper relation among parts

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Tidied

Put in order; made neat

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Workshop

Space or building where work is done.

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More Words to Know:

Anatomy: structure of a living thing

Dignitaries: people who have positions of honor

Monumental: very great

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Practice Lesson Review:

1. After Waterhouse tidied up his workshop, was it cluttered?

2. Did Waterhouse build his creatures inside his workshop?

3. Was Richard Owen the artist who erected the creatures?

4. Did Waterhouse use a mold to make his creatures?

5. Did Waterhouse use cement for the foundations of his dinosaurs?

6. Was the New Year’s Eve dinner party an important occasion for Waterhouse?

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Vocabulary Strategy: (TM 318)

Context Clues: Homonyms

Homonyms are words with the same spelling but different histories and meanings. Sometimes an unfamiliar word is a homonym. You can use context to help figure out its meaning. The words and sentences around the homonym offer clues.

1. Read the words and sentences around the homonym to find clues.

2. Think about the different meanings the homonym might have. For example, the word bill can mean “a statement of money owed” or “the beak of a bird.”

3. Try each meaning in the sentence.4. Decide which meaning makes sense in the sentence.

As you read “The Artist of the Hour,” look for words that are homonyms. Decide which meaning the author is using.

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Genre: Biography

A biography is a story of a person’s life written by another person. As you read, notice how Waterhouse Hawkins is a combination artist/scientist.

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How does Waterhouse

Hawkins introduce the

world to a new kind of creature.

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Preview and Predict

Preview the selection title and illustrations and discuss the topics or ideas you think this selection will cover. Use selection vocabulary words as you talk about what you expect to learn.

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Guided Comprehension:

Is the first sentence on p. 322 a statement of fact or opinion.

Based on what you have read on pp. 322-323, describe Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.

What is the main idea of p. 324? Name one detail.

How was Waterhouse helping people “see into the past”?

How do you think Queen Victoria and Prince Albert will react to the creatures?

What is Richard Owen’s job in creating the creatures?

Describe a painting, statue, or museum exhibit you’ve seen that impressed or surprised you.

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Guided Comprehension Continued:

Before reading the text, look at the illustrations on pp. 328-329 and make a prediction about what this page will cover.

Is the last sentence on p. 328, paragraph 2 a statement of fact or opinion?

Waterhouse showed his dinosaurs at a formal New Year’s Eve party. What caused him to do that?

Use context clues to determine the meaning of stage on p. 330.

Make a prediction about the party that Waterhouse is planning.

How would you describe the mood of the party? How do you know?

What does the illustration on pp. 326-327 show you that is not stated in the text?

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Guided Comprehension Continued:

Is the first sentence on p. 333 a statement of fact or opinion? Why?

State the main idea of p. 334, paragraph 1.

What effect did the dinosaur models have on the crowd?

What happened to the Waterhouse after the Crystal Palace event?

What do you think is the impact of Hawkins’ work on our knowledge of dinosaurs today?

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Main Idea

•Main Idea may be implied.

•You can find an implied main idea by asking questions like; What or who is this about? What is the most important idea about this topic? What are some of the details that tell me more about the topic?

Find the main idea of p. 335.

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Steps in a ProcessSteps in a Process means recognizing and being able to retell the order of steps required to accomplish something.

•Steps in a Process is a type of sequence in which something happens or something is made in a predictable way.

•Steps in a Process usually involves people doing or making something.

Review pp. 328-329 and discuss the number of steps involved in the process of building models of life-size dinosaur skeletons. Then retell the steps in your own words.

Work with a partner to write the steps in the process of conducting an interview, like the one they read about in “A Model Scientist.”

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SUMMARY This book explores the careers andimpact of various important paleontologists.It also explains animatronics, the technologyused to build robotic models of dinosaurs.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

PAGE 4 Why is Sue such a famous fossil?

PAGE 13 What word in the heading makes thisstatement an opinion?

PAGE 14 How was Joan Wiffen’s educationalbackground different from that of many othermodern fossil hunters?

PAGES 18–21 How do the pictures on thesepages help you predict what you will learnabout animatronics?

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SUMMARY This book explores various aspectsof paleontology, focusing on informationgathered from fossils and how knowledge and opinions of dinosaurs have changed over time.COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

PAGE 8 Is the first sentence on this page astatement of fact or a statement of opinion?

PAGE 12 What are some things a paleontologistneeds to study?

PAGES 14–16 How does the section headingand pictures on these pages help you predictwhat information you might learn?

PAGE 15 What caused scientists to think thatsome dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded?

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SUMMARY This book explores the most current findings about dinosaurs and how opinions of dinosaurs have changed over time.COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

PAGE 4 Reread the first sentence. Is it astatement of fact or of opinion?

PAGE 12 What part of the text does thisillustration help support?

PAGES 16–17 How do the heading and pictures help you predict what this section will be about? Would the prediction be harder if the heading was just Fossils? Why?

PAGE 18 What can you conclude aboutcomputer technology and paleontology?

PAGE 21 Reread the last sentence. Is it astatement of fact or opinion?

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Genre: Interview

•In an interview, the interviewer asks questions and the subject answers them.

•Interviews are often found in magazines and newspapers.

Text Features:

•The interview first introduces the subject, or the person being interviewed.

•An interview gives the actual words spoken by the subject and interviewer.

•Preview the questions in bold type. What do they tell you about the interview?

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Why do you think an introduction was include?

Who is asking the questions?

What will this be about? How quickly will you read it?

Did you predict accurately? Should you change your rate?

How does Minott know what to talk about in the interview?

Why is it important to ask good questions in an interview?

On what facts does Garfield Minott base his opinions?

Both Waterhouse Hawkins and Garfield Minott enjoy what they do. Make notes on places in each selection that show this statement to be true.

Present your results in two paragraphs, one for each selection.

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Additional Resources:

Dinosaur pages

Fact and Opinion

Chart with Irregular VerbsJeopardy with irregular verbs

Exercises with irregular verbs

Main Idea and Details

Internet 4 the Classroom: Fact and Opinion