Unit 3 Week 5 Day 3: A Weed is a Flower
Theme: Creative Ideas
High Frequency: clothes, hours, money, neighbor, only, question, taught
Vocabulary (Amazing Words): excel, process, research
Grammar: am, is, are, was, and were
Vocabulary(Selection words) / college, agriculture, laboratory, greenhouse
Use Vocabulary Transparency 15 to introduce selection words. Read each sentence as you track the print. Frame each underlined word
Today we are going to be learning more words that are in our story
A Weed is a Flower
Follow along as I read these sentences aloud.
Explain the word’s meaning.
college: a school of learning to attend after high school
agriculture: of or about farming
laboratory : a place where test and experiments are done
greenhouse: a building with glass or plastic sides where plants are kept
warm
Have students make up a sentence using each of the words in a complete sentence.
Model with each word.
Say: George Washington Carver was thirty years old before he went to
college. You tell me a sentence for college.
Say: The study of plants and farming is agriculture. You tell me a sentence
for agriculture.
Say: He used a laboratory to experiment with plants. You tell me a
sentence for laboratory.
He placed the plants in a greenhouse. You tell me a sentence for
greenhouse.
Ask students to identify familiar letter-sounds and word parts: laboratory (blend
the syllables: lab, o, ra, tory), greenhouse, (blend the words green, house), agriculture (blend the syllables ag, ri,cul,ture), college (blend the syllables col, lege).
Encourage students using the selection words by asking children how they might learn more about agriculture and growing plants.
High Frequency
Words / Clothes, hours, money, neighbor, only, question, taught
Divide children into groups of two or three. Give each group a set of Word Cards (ELL Teaching Guide page 102). Give each group a large piece of construction paper or a poster board and a variety of drawing materials. Ask children to design a poster that illustrates at least four of the words. They may use all of the words if they wish. Ask children to paste the Word Cards they use onto their poster. Have each group present its poster to the class. Encourage each child in the group to use a complete sentence to describe an aspect of the poster.
Reading Comprehension / Have students turn to page 430 in their reading books. Read the title A Weed is a Flower. Look at the pictures and have students tell what is happening.
Have students read along with you aloud. Make sure all of the students are reading.
Help students to respond to questions using complete sentences when appropriate.
What happened to George when he was young? He and his mother were
kidnapped, and he was brought back to his farm and raised by his owners,
Moses and Susan Carver.
Why did the neighbors call George the Plant Doctor? He covered his plants
to protect them from the cold.
Why do you think George found it important to study weeds? Possible
answer: George thought he could find ways to use plants to help people,
and he probably believed that weeds were another kind of plant that could
be useful.
What made George a good scientist? Possible answer: He was curious and
asked questions. If he didn’t know the answer, he found the answers by
Grammar and Writing / am, is, are, was, and were
definition:
The verbs am, is, are, was, and were do not show action. They show what
Someone or something is or was. These verbs are forms of the verb to be.
The verbs am, is, and are tell about now. I am an inventor. Jen is an
Inventor. Des and Ali are inventors.
The verbs was and were tell about the past. Bill was an inventor.
Kate and Sean were inventors.
Use am, is, and was to tell about one person, place, or thing. Use are
and were to tell about more than one person, place, or thing.
Read (or write) the verb in () that complete each sentence.
I ( am, are) happy. (am)
Yesterday my lunch (was, were) good. (was)
Cal (is, are) funny.(is)
My friends (was, were) hungry last night. (were)
Calie and I (am, are) excited. (are)
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