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Name: __________________________ Date:______ Vocab Homework: The Cricket in Times Square
Vocabulary Word Syllable Part of Speech Definition Sketch
Wistfully
Scrounging
Acquaintance
Excitable
Eavesdropping
Sympathetically
Logical
Author: George SeldonIllustrator: Garth Williams
The Cricket in Times Square
Cricket by Jerry Booth
• The black field cricket is the most widespread member or order of insects called Orthoptera. This is the creature you are most likely to hear chirping in your neighborhood on summer nights.
• Adults measure about an inch long and are colored black to reddish brown. They live underbrush, where it is moist and protected. They range in across North America, including Alaska.
• Their diet consists of all sorts of plants, seeds, fruits, and dying or dead insects.
• When you find a cricket inside your house in autumn, chances are it is trying to escape the cold. Most adult crickets die in the cold weather, especially where winters are harsh.
Background
Knowledge
Cricket by Jerry Booth
• Crickets have long and narrow bodies with giant, powerful hind legs for jumping and two sets of short legs in front.
• The cricket’s head is rather big and flat with large compound eyes, two or three simple eyes, a big mouth with assorted chewing tools, and a pair of long antennae.
• Basic cricket equipment includes two sets of wings, although underground crickets have small stumpy wings adapted for flightless life.
Cricket or Grasshopper?
Do you have trouble telling a cricket from a grasshopper?
• Remember, most grasshoppers’ antennae are shorter than their body length. Grasshoppers also have long wings that usually cover much of their bodies. Grasshoppers are active during the day, and they enjoy sitting in the sun.
• Crickets are more nocturnal; they prefer coming out after the sun goes down. Both crickets and grasshoppers make noise, although grasshoppers tend to make buzzing noises while crickets tend to make more musical, chirpy sounds.
Cricket or Grasshopper?
Giant Jumps
• Crickets are designed for jumping. The spikes on their legs grip the ground like the soles of a sprinters shoes, so when they contract the strong muscles on their back legs they go flying through the air.
• If you could jump with cricket power, you could do a standing broad jump of 30 feet. Not only that, you could do it over and over and over again. Imagine how fast
Vocabulary: The Cricket in Times Square
• Wistfully
• Scrounging
• Acquaintance
• Excitable
• Eavesdropping
• Sympathetically
• Logical
Wistfully• Sadly remembering something nice
Scrounging• Looking for scraps of food or
abandoned materials
Acquaintance • Knowing someone or something
Excitable • Very emotional; easily excited
Eavesdropping • Listening secretly to a conversation
Sympathetically • Showing concern for someone else’s
feelings
Logical • Reasonable; to be expected
Putting words in contextTurn to page 326
Vocabulary Power
acquaintance
eavesdropping
sympathetically
excitablescrounging
wistfully
logical
Genre: FantasyA Fantasy is an imaginative story that may have unrealistic characters and events.
The Cricket in Times Square
Focus Skill Drawing Conclusions
What you already know
Clues from the passage
Conclusion!
Draw a Conclusion
Johnny loves the color blue. He says it gives him a peaceful feeling. Johnny asked his dad if he could paint his room.
What color do you think he will paint his room?
Is this what you were thinking?• The first sentence states that Johnny likes the
color blue.
• The second sentence explains why Johnny prefers blue.
• People generally like their rooms to be peaceful colors.
• These are good clues about what color paint Johnny might want for his room.
Like being a Reading Detective!
• A conclusion is a decision that readers make after thinking about the information in a text.
• The writer may not always state all of his or her ideas, readers often have to look for clues to understand the whole passage, paragraph, or story.
• As a reading detective you must put together the clues that the writer provides and then draw the best conclusion they can to understand the text.
• The conclusion should ALWAYS make sense!
• Think in your head what it means to draw conclusions.
• Now whisper your thoughts to your shoulder partner.
• When given a class signal, please share with me.
Closure