This document provides a lesson plan for day 2. It includes questions of the day, lessons on root words and their endings, identifying characters and settings in stories, alphabetical order, vocabulary words like "image" and "popular", grammar reviews of commands and exclamations, and exercises for students to practice these concepts.

1. Lesson 5
Day 2

2. Question of the Day
What would you say to a new student to
welcome them to your class?
What friendly thing could you say to a
person you do not know well?
To welcome a new student, I would say
_______.

3. Root Words; Endings –ed & -ing
 dropped
What is the root word?
What ending was added?
How did the root word change?
 naming joked
What are the root words? What
endings were added? How
did the words change?
Words are often easier to read if we break them
down.
 sanded gliding mopped
Say the word, then find the root and ending.

4. Root Word Practice
Find each root word and explain how the root
word changed when the ending was added.
 moved
 move
waking
 wake
 hopped
 hop
 folded
 fold

5. Characters and Setting
Characters are _____________________.
people or animals in a story.
The setting is _______ when and _______ where
a story
takes place.
Open your book to “The School News” and
identify the setting. What information in the text
helped you?
Work with your partner to identify a character in
the story and write 2 or 3 sentences explaining
what the character is like. Also write down the
clues that helped you.

6. Alphabetical Order
Alphabetical order can help when we are looking
up words in a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or the
index in the back of a textbook.
When you put words in ABC order, start by
looking at the first letter. If the words start with
the same letter, look to the second letter.
Sometimes you may need to look to the third
letter or even farther to put the words in ABC
order.

7. ABC Order
 caring tease talk bandit
feel calling
Which of these words comes first in
alphabetical order? How do you know?
Finish writing the words in ABC order.
Let your partner check your answers.
 bandit calling caring feel talk tease

8. Vocabulary
1. I saw an image of my favorite actor on
television.
An image is a picture of something or someone.
What is the word?
What is an image you have seen in a magazine
advertisement?
2. The movie is so popular that it is hard to get
tickets to see it.
Something that is popular is something that
many people like.
What is the word?
What snacks are popular with kids?

9. Vocabulary Practice
What are some of your favorite movies?
What are some images you remember
from them? Describe specific images.
Work with your partner to list some after-school
activities that are popular with kids.
Turn and Talk.

10. DOL
D
an
1. do you have a extra pencil!
P
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puppy
2. please keep the puppies on his leash?
.

11. Grammar: Review Commands and
Exclamations
• A command tells someone to do
something. It usually ends with a period. A
strong command ends with an
exclamation point.
An exclamation expresses surprise,
excitement, or other strong feelings. It
ends with an exclamation point.

12. Grammar Practice
1. This pan is really hot
2. Please take the puppy for a walk
Which sentence is a command?
Which sentence is an exclamation?
What punctuation marks are needed for
each sentence?