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Long e and o
Generalization Long e is sometimes spelled ee or ea: sweet, each. Long o is sometimes spelled oa or ow: throat, rainbow.

Word Sort Sort the list words by their long e and long o spellings. ea and ee oa

Spelling Words
1. sweet 2. each 3. three 4. least 5. freedom 6. below 7. throat 8. float 9. foam 10. flown 11. greet 12. season 13. croak 14. shallow 15. eagle 16. indeed 17. rainbow 18. grown 19. seaweed 20. hollow

1. ___________________ ee

11. ___________________ 12. ___________________ 13. ___________________ 14. ___________________ ow

2. ___________________ 3. ___________________ 4. ___________________ 5. ___________________

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15. ___________________ 16. ___________________ 17. ___________________

6. ___________________ ea

18. ___________________ 19. ___________________ 20. ___________________

7. ___________________ 8. ___________________ 9. ___________________ 10. ___________________

Home Activity Your child is learning to spell words with long e and long o spelled ee, ea, oa, and ow. Have your child look at each word and point to the letters that make the long e and o sounds.

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Summary
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls and her family have left their house on the prairie and traveled by covered wagon to make a new home in Minnesota. The children explore the area, and Pa takes them to play in Plum Creek. Later, Laura meets a badger.

Activity
Background Knowledge Together reread On the Banks of Plum Creek. Discuss some of the Ingallss family adventures, and use the library to find stories of other families who moved west during the 1800s.

Comprehension Skill
Sequence
Sequence means the order in which things happen. Dates, times, and clue words such as first, then, next, and last can help you understand the order of events.

Activity
Good Directions Teach your family to perform a dance move, special handshake, or anything that they may not know how to do, without demonstrating it for them. You must use specific language and clue words only. See if they complete the trick or task correctly.

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Lesson Vocabulary
Words to Know
Knowing the meanings of these words is important to reading On the Banks of Plum Creek. Practice using these words.

Complete Conventions
No sentence is complete without both a subject and a predicate. The subject is the word or group of words about which something is said in the sentence. The predicate of a sentence is the word or group of words that tells something about the subject. All the words in the subject are called the complete subject. The subjects central noun or pronoun is called the simple subject. All the words in the predicate are called the complete predicate. The predicates verb is called the simple predicate. For example: My friend Paul likes Mexican food. In the example, My friend Paul is the complete subject, and Paul is the simple subject. Likes Mexican food is the complete predicate, and likes is the simple predicate.

Subjects and Predicates

Vocabulary Words
badger a burrowing, flesh-eating mammal bank the rising ground at the edge of a lake, river, or sea bristled short, stiff hair jointed a place where two things or parts are joined patched mended with a scrap of material ruffled a strip of closely gathered material
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rushes marsh plants with hollow stem

Activity
Collaborative Tale Write a short story together. Have one person write the subject of every sentence and the other person write the predicate. Switch roles halfway through the story.

Practice Tested Spelling Words



Family Times

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Plot, Setting, and Character

The plot is what happened in the story. The setting is where the story takes place. The characters are the people in the story.

Directions Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.

e used to be an ordinary family. One summer our parents wanted to travel as far as we could in three months. We didnt have much money, so we would backpack, hike, and camp. We traveled by train, bus, and foot all through Mexico and Central and South America. Mom and Dad took my sister and me

through canyons and jungles. We saw mountains, deserts, and an ocean. At first we complained. Camping was hard, and we missed our friends. We had no telephone, television, or computer. But every night we met local people and ate their food. When the summer ended, we didnt want to go home. Now we wanted adventure!

1. What are the main events in the plot of the story?

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2. Why did the parents want the family to go on this trip?

3. Who are the characters in the story?

4. What is the setting of the story?

5. How did the characters change during the story?

Home Activity Your child read a story about someone who learned while traveling. Have an older friend or relative tell a story about traveling. Discuss what the person learned from the experience.

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Sequence
Directions Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.
my Connor was thirteen when she and her family left England for Utah in 1859. First, the family sailed from England to the United States. After six weeks at sea, they landed in Boston. Next, they took a train to Iowa City, Iowa. There, they got gear ready for overland travel.

Then they set off, crossing plains and rivers, and enduring dust, rain, and snow. Sometimes they drank melted snow when they had no water. Finally, after more than a thousand miles, the family arrived in Utah. The journey from England to Utah had taken three months.

1. What was the first step in the Connors journey to Utah?

2. How long was the sea journey?

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3. After landing in Boston, what did the family do next?

4. Where was the familys last stop and when did they arrive?

5. In what year was Amy Connor probably born?

Home Activity Your child identified sequence in a story about a pioneer girl. Talk with your child about what it would have been like to move far away to a new home in the 1800s.

Comprehension

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Complete Subjects and Predicates

Directions Each pair below has a simple subject and a verb. Add details to write an interesting sentence. Then underline the complete subject once and the complete predicate twice. Circle any compound subject or predicate. 1. sister/swimming

2. creek/rushed

3. water/got deeper

4. they/played

5. dirt/slipped

7. air/was hot

8. animal/had

9. Mary/sat

10. Ma/was teaching

Home Activity Your child learned how to use subjects and predicates in writing. Have your child write asentence describing something he or she did today. Ask your child to identify the complete subject andthe complete predicate of the sentence.

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6. she/remembered

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Spelling Words

sweet below greet indeed

each throat season rainbow

three float croak grown

least foam shallow seaweed

freedom flown eagle hollow

Word Hunt The ten list words in the box below are hidden in the puzzle. Circle and write each word you find. The words may go across, down, or diagonally. F R P L E A G L E I K C R C R E V A H F I S A G E E D O M G S R U F T X H N P G H S A S T N R W L I V M O E L E N M A E O L Q B T T W B N I O A N D E E D W E A W E E D X I Q U K K R O W N U Z eagle rainbow indeed freedom least throat seaweed shallow sweet grown

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1. ____________ 4. ____________ 7. ____________ 10. ____________

2. ____________ 5. ____________ 8. ____________

3. ____________ 6. ____________ 9. ____________

Word Clues Write the list word that answers the clue. 11. not above 12. say hello 13. empty inside 14. an ice cream drink 15. time of year 16. frog sound 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Home Activity Your child has learned to read, write, and spell words with ee, ea, oa, and ow. Give your child clues about a list word. Ask your child to guess the word and spell it.

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Plot, Setting, and Character

The plot is what happened in the story. The setting is where the story takes place. The characters are the people in the story.

Directions Read the following passage. Complete the chart about setting and plot. Then answer the question about a character.
ast winter, as we sat in the kitchen, Grandmother told me about the many places she had lived. She was born on a farm in Austria in 1920. In 1925, her family moved to the city of Vienna to find work. After her eighteenth birthday, Grandmother came to New York City by herself, again looking for work.

She worked in a shop, a factory, and an office. But Grandmother knew the big city was not for her. She wanted the farm life again. After Grandmother and Grandfather were married, they packed their bags and moved to a farm in North Carolina, where they have lived ever since.

SETTING

PLOT
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1. In what setting does Grandmother tell the story of her life?

3. Why did Grandmother move to New York City by herself?

2. Where are the places that Grandmother lived?

4. Which jobs did Grandmother have in her lifetime?

5. What kind of person does Grandmother show she is?

Home Activity Your child read a story about a character who moved a lot in her lifetime. Ask older friends or relatives to talk with your child about where they have lived and how they felt about it.

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Complete Subjects and Predicates

Directions Underline the complete subject of each sentence once. Underline the complete predicate twice. 1. Tomorrow you and I will go to the creek. 2. This spot is where she met the badger. 3. The fiddle sang softly to her. 4. Laura did something wrong. 5. Everything was green and beautiful. Directions Read each sentence. Underline the complete subject of each sentence once. Underline the complete predicate twice. Write SSS if the subject is a compound subject. Write PPP if the predicate is a compound predicate. Write N if there is neither a compound subject nor a compound predicate. 6. Blue flags and green rushes grew along the river. 7. The flat creek bed was made of warm, soft mud. 8. Laura hopped and splashed in the cool creek.
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9. The girls cleared the table and washed the dishes. 10. They walked past the trail and the rushes. Directions Write a sentence using the pairs of words below. Use the noun as a simple subject and the verb as a simple predicate. Then underline the complete subject once and the complete predicate twice. 11. pool/looked

12. badger/had

Home Activity Your child reviewed subjects and predicates. Ask your child to describe an object in the house in a sentence. Ask him or her to repeat the sentence and to identify the complete subject and the complete predicate.

Complete Subjects and Predicates

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