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Building BackgroundLesson 12
• A Pen Pal for Max is realistic fiction.
• Realistic Fiction:– Has characters with
problems people might face in real life
– Has a setting that could be real
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A Pen Pal for Max
• This story is about a boy named Max who lives in Chile. Max becomes pen pals with a girl who lives in the United States.
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A Pen Pal for Max
• Pen Pals write letters to each other.
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Did you know?
vineyard
Seaport and freighters
earthquakeSpanish language
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Comprehension
• PLOTThe plot is what happens in a story.
To understand the plot:• Find the problem in a story
I wonder what will be a problem for Max?
• Think about how the characters solve the problem
How will Max solve his problem?
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PhonicsSome words have a silent first letter.
knotknees
gnat
wrist wrench
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VocabularyLet’s read some new words
together…• Translate• Repairs• Heaving• Bothersome• Din• Dodging• Catastrophe• fortunate
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translate
• If you translate something you say or write it in another language.
• To read this letter we would need to translate it to English.
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repairs
• When something needs repairs, it needs to be fixed.
• This car is in need of repairs.
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heaving
• Heaving is throwing something heavy with great effort
• The stormy seas heaved the big boat.
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bothersome
• When something is bothersome, it bothers you and causes problems.
• When my friend talks to me while I am studying, it is bothersome.
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din
• If there is a din, there is so much noise that it is hard to hear anything over it.
• The din of the roller coaster could be heard through out the amusement park.
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dodging
• When you are dodging something, you avoid something that is coming toward you.
• The cat tried to dodge the annoying dog.
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catastrophe
• A catastrophe is something really terrible that has happened.
• The earthquake damage was a sad catastrophe.
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fortunate
• If you are fortunate you are very lucky.
• I was fortunate to find a four leaf clover.
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mistaken
• If you are wrong about something you are mistaken.
• Mom was mistaken when she called the twins by the wrong name.
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deciphered
• If you figured out a message that is difficult to understand or that is written in code, then you deciphered it.
• The boy used Braille to decipher the code.