Appendices
Appendix A: Graphic Organizers - page 2
Appendix B: Samples - page 3
Appendix C: Rubrics - page 4
Appendix D: Resources – pages 5-19
p. 5-6 Simple Machines article
p. 7 Text Features Matching
p. 8 Text Features Scavenger Hunt
p. 9 Skateboarding to the Rescue article
p.10 Tony Hawk: Humanitarian article
p.11 “One inch Tall” poem
p.12 Sequencing strips
p.13 Newspaper template
p. 14 “Sick” poem
p.15-17 Chapter 8 Mouse and the Motorcycle
p.18 Excerpt from Chapter 9 for Summative Assessment
p.19 Summative Assessment
Appendix A
Name: ______Date: ______
Story Map
Appendix B
Feelings Flow Chart
Appendix C
Informative Paragraph Rubric
Writing 2: Students write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Writing Traits / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1Ideas: Do I begin with a topic sentence that tells the main idea? / I begin with a topic sentence that clearly tells the main idea. / I begin with a sentence that tells the main idea, but it is not clear enough. / I don’t begin with a topic sentence that tells the main idea. / I don’t tell a main idea from the selection.
Organization: Do I use facts and details to support the main idea? / All of my facts and details tell about the main idea. / Some facts and details tell about the main idea. / My facts and details don’t tell about a main idea. / I don’t use facts and details.
Word Choice: Do I use exact words to make my facts and details clear? / I use exact words that make my facts and details very clear. / I use some exact words in my facts and details but need more. / I use a few exact words in my facts and details. / I don’t use exact words.
Voice: Do I use my own words to give the facts and details? / I use my own words in all of my facts and details. / I use my own words in some of my facts and details. / I use the words from the selection. / I list some words but don’t use sentences.
Conventions: Do I indent the first line and use marks? / I indent the first line and use end marks. / I indent the first line, but I forget a few end marks. / I don’t indent the first line, but I use some end marks. / I don’t indent the first line. I forget to use end marks.
Sentence Fluency: Do my words and phrases flow together as it is read? / My sentences are varied in structure and length. / Some sentence structure is varied. The length of my sentences is varied. / Most sentences are simple in structure and length. / I did not write sentences.
Appendix D
Simple Machines
A machine is a tool that helps us with our work. All machines are made up of one or more simple machines.
Types of Simple Machines
There are six kinds of simple machines. They are a lever, an inclined plane, a wedge, a screw, a wheel and axle, and a pulley.
A lever is a long rod or bar. Think of a seesaw. The long board of the seesaw is a lever. It is held steady, but it can move up and down. Spoons, shovels, and hammers can all be used as levers. Your pencil can be used as a lever too!
An inclined plane, or ramp, is a flat surface that is at a slant. It is used to raise and lower things. A furniture mover will use an inclined plane to put a desk on a ramp to get it in a truck.
She is using an inclined plane to
load the boxes into the truck.
A wedge is made of two inclined planes put together. It is shaped like a triangle. The pointy end can be used to cut or split things. Or, it can hold them in place. A doorstop and the tip of a nail are wedges.
The tip is a wedge.
A screw is an inclined plane that goes around and around. There are many kinds of screws. Most of them hold things together. Even a jar lid is a type of screw.
Wheel and axle machines help to move things. Have you ridden a bicycle? If so, you have used a wheel and axle. A pizza cutter, a mechanical pencil sharpener, and a doorknob also use a wheel and axle to turn.
A wheel with a groove in it can make a pulley. It has a cord that wraps around the wheel. It is used to lift or move things. The flag at your school is raised with a pulley.
Water is lifted from this well with a pulley.
Now that you know the six types of simple machines, you can look for them. Look at the tools you use when you play and do work at home and at school. Most tools use one or more simple machines.
caption / these are words next to a picture telling what it is aboutbold print / it calls attention to new and important words
heading / this tells what this section of the book will be about
glossary / this lists important words alphabetically with their meanings
index / this is a list in the back of a book showing topics and page numbers
illustration / this is a picture that has been drawn
diagram / this is a picture that shows the parts of an item
photograph / this is a picture taken with a camera
Text Features Matching
Name: ______Text Features Scavenger Hunt
Name of text: ______
Text Feature / Page # / What is it? / How does it help you?
bold print
subheading
glossary
index
illustration
diagram
photograph
caption
Skateboarding to the Rescue
Tony Hawk was born in 1968 and grew up in San Diego, California. He had a lot of energy as a child. This caused him to get in trouble at school. He didn’t like team sports such as basketball or baseball, but he needed an outlet for his energy. His mom called him “challenging.”
When Tony was nine years old, his brother gave him a skateboard. He had no idea how to use it. He couldn’t even turn. But he liked it and started playing around with the skateboard.
He started improving. He began going to a skatepark near his house. He would spend hours there learning tricks and practicing them over and over. He even began inventing his own tricks.
When Tony was eleven years old, he entered his first skateboard contest. He fell a couple times during the contest so he didn’t place well. But he didn’t quit skating. He started practicing more. By the next year, he was doing so well that a company sponsored him, paying for him to enter contests.
By the time Tony turned fourteen, he was ready to become a professional, or pro. He began traveling all over the United States to compete in skateboarding contests. He soon became one of the best skateboarders in the country, winning almost every contest he entered.
Tony continued skating as an adult, doing amazing tricks and creating new challenges for himself. Today, he has retired from professional competitions, but still skates because he loves it. Tony has said, “I’m pretty happy with the way things turned out. I mean, I never thought I could make a career out of skateboarding.”
Tony Hawk – Humanitarian
Tony Hawk is one of the most recognizable athletes in the United States. He has won many awards, including Make-A-Wish’s Favorite Male Athlete, Teen Choice Awards’ Choice Male Athlete and Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards’ Favorite Male Athlete, beating out many other sports icons.
As he began making more money than he could have ever imagined, Tony made an effort to give to others. He created the Tony Hawk Foundation. This organization has donated over $4 million to 525 skatepark projects throughout the United States. The foundation helps build public skateparks, providing a safe place to skate and helping young skaters build their self-confidence.
Tony Hawk’s Stand Up For Skateparks is a family-friendly event, which began in 2004 to raise funds to build free public skateparks in low-income communities across the U.S. In the past decade, the Tony Hawk Foundation has helped fund 537 skateparks in all 50 states. This year’s Stand Up For Skateparks raised $860,000, including $20,000 to help complete a skatepark in Detroit, Michigan.
“Ten years ago, we started Stand Up For Skateparks in a bowling alley for an event that was attended by a few hundred people and was mostly met with curiosity,” said Tony Hawk. “Today, I am honored and humbled to see how the event has grown. It has become a staple for top-notch sponsors, celebrities, and athletes who support the Foundation’s mission to provide free, quality skateparks in low-income communities. Their support brings awareness to the need for positive outlets for kids in these communities, and it truly makes a difference. I am beyond grateful.”
One Inch Tall
By Shel Silverstein
If you were only one inch tall, you’d ride a worm to school.
The tear drop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.
A crumb of cake would be a feast
And last you seven days at least,
A flea would be a frightening beast
If you were one inch tall.
If you were only one inch tall, you’d walk beneath the door.
And it would take about a month to get down to the store.
A bit of fluff would be your bed,
You’d swing upon a spider’s thread,
And wear a thimble on your head
If you were one inch tall.
You’d surf across the kitchen sink upon a stick of gum.
You couldn’t hug your mama, you’d just have to hug her thumb.
You’d run from people’s feet in fright,
To move a pen would take all night,
(This poem took fourteen years to write-
‘Cause I’m just one inch tall).
Ralph was trapped in the wastebasket.Ralph rode the motorcycle in the hallway all night.
The Gridley family arrived at Mountain View Inn.
After rescuing Ralph, Keith taught him how to ride the motorcycle.
Ralph tried riding the motorcycle for the first time.
Keith brought Ralph’s family a peanut butter sandwich.
Ralph was trapped in the wastebasket.
Ralph rode the motorcycle in the hallway all night.
The Gridley family arrived at Mountain View Inn.
After rescuing Ralph, Keith taught him how to ride the motorcycle.
Ralph tried riding the motorcycle for the first time.
Keith brought Ralph’s family a peanut butter sandwich.
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Sick
By Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Chapter 8: A Family Reunion
The next thing Ralph knew, his mother was shaking him by the shoulder. “Wake up, “she said. “Ralph, wake up. Room service has brought us another meal.”
“Room service?” Ralph rubbed his eyes, not believing what he had heard. “Room service has brought our dinner?”
“Yes, a real feast. A whole blueberry muffin and a chocolate-chip cookie,” said Ralph’s mother. “Get up. We are having a family reunion.”
It all came back to Ralph. “Oh, room service,” he said, understanding at last. “You mean the boy. Keith.”
“He is room service to me.” Ralph’s mother sounded happy and carefree.
Ralph sat up. Already his aunts and uncles and many squeaky cousins were arriving by the secret paths in the space between the walls. It was a long time since anyone had had enough food for a family reunion, and there was rejoicing in the mouse nest for everyone but Ralph. He was thinking of the motorcycle he had lost and the promise he had broken. He had a dull, heavy feeling in the pit of his stomach and he did not feel like celebrating.
“Why, there’s Ralph,” squeaked his Aunt Sissy, who thought she was better than the rest of the family because she lived in the bridal suite where, she led her relatives to believe, riches of rice fell to the carpet when the bride took off her hat and the groom shook out his coat. The rest of the family knew Aunt Sissy was not as grand as she pretended to be, because very few brides and grooms came to this hotel these days. “My, how you’ve grown.”
Ralph never knew what to say when people told him how he had grown.
“Well, well! If it isn’t Ralph!” said Uncle Lester, who had a nest inside the wall of the housekeeper’s office where the maids dropped doughnut crumbs every morning at ten o’clock when they had their coffee. “What’s this I hear about you riding up and down the halls on a motorcycle?” Uncle Lester had a way of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
“My land, a motorcycle,” said old Aunt Dorothy. “Isn’t that pretty dangerous?”
“Wouldn’t mind riding one myself if I were a few years younger,” said Uncle Lester.
All the little cousins came crowding around Ralph. “Show us your motorcycle,” they squeaked. “We want to ride it. Come on, give us a ride on your motorcycle, Ralph. Huh, Ralph? Come on, Ralph. Please!”