Word Knowledge for Sarah Plain and Tall Please copy all words and skills into your notes. Raise your hand if you would like to participate. Unit 1, Lesson.

Word Knowledgefor

Sarah Plain and Tall

•Please copy all words and skills into your notes.•Raise your hand if you would like to participate.Unit 1, Lesson 3 Starts Now!

Line 1:

• energy

• energetic

• sympathy

• sympathetic

• Raise your hand to guess the nouns.

• Raise your hand to guess the adjectives.

NOUNS ADJECTIVES

= Full of energy

= Full of sympathy

Line 2:

• hundredth

• tenth

• fourth

• twentieth

• Raise your hand if you know the skill.

• Correct: ordinal words / order words

•Raise your hand to put them in order from least to greatest.

Line 3:

• Lately

• carefully

• seriously

• softly

• Raise your hand if you know the skill.

• Correct: Adverbs = ly suffix

__________ Caleb has been asking more about his mother.

•Raise your hand to complete the sentences with a word that makes sense.

Dad was __________ thinking about getting a new wife to help in the house.

Sarah spoke ________ to the family after arriving from her long journey.

Anna __________ opened the letters from Sarah so that she wouldn’t rip them.

Line 4:

• prairie• eager• seals• married• sneak

• Raise your hand if you know the skill.• Correct: Long /e/ sound = ie, ea

Sentence 1:

• Sarah is more energetic this morning.

•Identify the word with the suffix.•Correct: energetic•Identify the base word of energetic.•Correct: energy

Sentence 2:

• This dog is Caleb’s fourth Collie.

•Raise your hand if you can identify the ordinal word.•Correct: fourth

Line 3:

• “Will she like us?” asked

Caleb very softly.

•Raise your hand if you can identify the adverb.•Correct: softly

Sentence 4:

• Most seals live in water and have flippers for feet.

•Find two words with the long /e/ sound.•Correct: seals = ea / feet = ee

Finished

• Remember, Sarah Plain and Tall in your reading anthology is an excerpt of the larger novel in the library.

• Don’t forget to look for the novel next time you are in the library.

•Teachers, don’t forget to check out the new Sarah Plain and Tall video as well.

Please return to your desks without talking.