Boom Town
Day 2
Written by Sonia Levitin
Illustrated by John Sandford
Skill: Realism and Fantasy
Genre: Historical Fiction
Question of the Day
• What type of person is well suited to living
in a new town?
Phonics Objectives
• Use word parts to decode short vowel
words with the syllable pattern VC/CV.
• Blend and read words that contain the
syllable pattern VC/CV.
• Apply decoding strategies: blend longer
words.
dollar
– Which letters in the first syllable are consonants?
– Which letter is a vowel?
– Is the vowel in the first syllable of dollar long or short?
– When there is only one vowel at the beginning or in
the middle of a word or syllable, the vowel usually
stands for its short sound.
– Do you think the vowel in the first syllable of the
second word is long or short?
sudden
• When I come to a word I don't know, I
divide it into syllables and sound out each
syllable.
• The first syllable of this word has a vowel
between two consonants, so the vowel
probably stands for its short sound.
Decode
spelling pencil winner
pollen monster putter
biscuit tadpole
Read the word. What is the short vowel
in the first syllable?
Read the words in context
• I hope the puppies act better when they
grow up.
• Bees get pollen in the summer.
• We have hidden the key near the
window.
Read the sentence. Which words have
two syllables? Is the vowel in the first
syllable long or short?
Vocabulary Strategy -
Homonyms
Objectives:
• Use context clues to determine the
meaning of words that are homonyms.
Vocabulary Strategy - Homonyms
• Sometimes when you are reading, you
may see a word you know, but the
meaning you know doesn't make sense in
the sentence. How can that be?
• The word might be a homonym.
Homonyms are words that are
pronounced and spelled the same
but have different meanings.
• For example, bat means "a stick used to
hit a ball." Bat also means "a flying
animal."
Vocabulary Strategy -
Homonyms
• If a word you know doesn't make sense
in the sentence, it might be a homonym.
• Look at the words around it. Can you
figure out another meaning?
• Try the new meaning in the sentence.
Does it make sense?
• As you read “Gold Rush,“ look for words
that are homonyms. Remember to try to
figure out another meaning for words that
might be homonyms. See which makes
sense in the sentence.
Small Group
• Read “Boom Town”, pages 16 – 27
Choral Reading
• Listen as I read aloud p. 18.
• Notice that I read all of the words as
written and that I do not omit or substitute
any words.
• Now we’ll read p. 18 three times together.
Many communities grew because
of geographic features such as transportation
routes, climate, or location of natural resources. Gold
fueled the growth of many communities in California
during the middle of the 19th century. The first major
gold discovery in North America occurred at Sutter's
Mill in 1848. By the next year, over 80,000 "forty-
niners" swamped the California gold fields in search of
fortune. The California Gold Rush led to the growth of
many small towns. As supplies of gold ran out, though,
many places were abandoned and became ghost
towns. For the most part, only towns that had
developed different kinds of businesses managed to
survive after the gold supply ran out.
Grammar
Day 2
Objectives:
Define and identify sentences.
Distinguish between sentences and
fragments.
1. Soon there was more trafic in the town
Soon there was more traffic in the town.
2. Does any one need new shoes
Does anyone need new shoes?
Guided Practice
• A sentence tells a complete thought.
• A sentence begins with a capital letter
and ends with a period, question mark, or
exclamation mark.
• A fragment is a group of words that does
not tell a complete thought.
Spelling
Day 2
Objective:
Spell VCCV words, which usually
have short vowel sounds.
VCCV Pattern
• Vowels have the short sound when they
are followed by two consonants.
• happen lettuce basket
• Look at happen. The a is followed by two
consonants (pp).
• Let’s find the pattern in lettuce and basket.
• Now let’s find the pattern in our spelling
words!
GREAT JOB!