The document provides lesson material about identifying theme, sequencing events, and vocabulary words for a story. It introduces the concepts of theme, character traits, character actions, and character motives. It defines sequential order and provides transition words to indicate order. It also defines vocabulary words that will be useful for understanding the story, including eminent, charity, modest, disgruntled, inadequate, aghast, dismayed, amends, absentminded, and concoction. The story is about a cooking show where the host explains the steps of what she is making in sequential order.

1. Lesson 10 The Secret Ingredient

2. Lesson 10 Word Attack The Schwa Sound /-le/

3. Skill I will identify the theme of a story, and be able to place the events in sequential order .

4. Skill - Theme The theme of the story is what we learn from reading the story. It is the lesson or message of the story.

5. Skill - Theme There are 3 things that help us figure out the theme. Character Traits Character Actions Character Motives

6. Skill - Sequence Sequential order means putting the events in the order they happened. We sometimes call this time order or chronological order.

7. Skill - Sequence To use sequential order, look for transition words. First, next, then In the beginning, later, finally In 1908, two years later, in the end

8. Vocabulary Get ready to learn some new words that will help us better understand our story. Also, having a big vocabulary makes us sound smart!

9. A person that is well known and important Eminent

10. Showing kindness by giving money or gifts to organizations that need them Charity

11. A person does not brag or show off Modest

12. Someone is unhappy because things have not turned out the way they wanted them to Disgruntled

13. Not good as large as something needs to be Inadequate

14. Feeling shock or disgusted about something Aghast

15. Upset about something and not sure how to deal with it. Dismayed

16. Making positive changes to something Amends

17. Someone who forgets things easily Absentminded

18. Mix of different things usually mixed together with no planning Concoction

19. This story is all about a cooking show. Watch the video to see how the host explains what she is making. Notice how she uses sequential order. http://video.pbs.org/video/1094273768/