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The Houdini Box

The Houdini Box. By Brian Selznick Day 1 Day 4 Day 2 Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources. Study Skills. Genre: Historical Fiction Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast Comprehension Strategy: Predict Review Skill: Plot and Character

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The Houdini Box

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  1. The Houdini Box By Brian Selznick Day 1Day 4 Day 2Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources

  2. Study Skills • Genre:Historical Fiction • Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast • Comprehension Strategy: Predict • Review Skill:Plot and Character • Vocabulary:Synonyms/Antonyms

  3. Genre: Historical Fiction • Historical fiction has characters and events based on real people and events in history.

  4. Skill review – Plot and Character • The main character’s problem often drives the plot. The plot begins when a character has a problem or conflict. • Main events usually focus on the character’s efforts to solve the problem. • Plot (problem) builds up during rising action, is met directly at the climax, and comes to an end, as the action winds down, during the resolution.

  5. Plot and Character Cindy was trying out for a dance group. Cindy waited for her turn. Cindy danced. Cindy made it into group. Cindy cheered.

  6. Day 1 - Question of the Week • Can you always believe what you see?

  7. Vocabulary - Say It • appeared • crumbled • monument • vanished • magician • escape • bustling

  8. More Words to Know engraved unexplainable invisible pretending judge

  9. Comprehension StrategyPredict • Good readers think about what will happen next. • Patterns in the information in a graph or chart can help you predict.

  10. Listen to the Story

  11. Compare andContrast • A comparisontells how two or more things are alike. • Comparisons use like or as. • A contrasttells how they are different • Contrasts use butor unlike.

  12. Reading WB

  13. Compare and Contrast How they work to fool the eye: computer vs. hands seem real new practice vs. old fool the eye one is harder to figure out takes hard work

  14. 1. Whens the magic show!2. Bill think its’ at seven o’clock.

  15. What is a pronoun? • A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun.

  16. Let's see an example! 1.Marge went for a walk. • She went for a walk. *Brainpop Video

  17. Spelling Words- Contractions • aren’t • hadn’t • where’s • couldn’t • shouldn’t • haven’t • when’s • we’ve • it’s • they’re

  18. Spelling Words Contractions • we’re • there’s • wouldn’t • won’t • don’t • wasn’t • here’s • I’ve • doesn’t • you’re

  19. CHALLENGE • it’ll • who’ll • might’ve • mustn’t • we’d

  20. Day 2-Question of the Day • Why do you think Houdini is able to escape and seems to walk through walls, but Victor cannot?

  21. Vocabulary Skill: Synonyms and Antonyms • Sometimes the author will use a synonym or an antonym as a clue to the meaning of the word. • Synonyms are words that mean almost the same thing. • Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.

  22. vanished disappeared, especially suddenly

  23. magician person who entertains by art or skill of creating illusions, especially a sleight of hand

  24. escape to get out and away; to get free

  25. bustling being noisily busy and in a hurry

  26. was seen; came in sight appeared

  27. crumbled fell to pieces; decayed

  28. monument something set up to honor a person or an event. A monument may be a building, pillar, arch, statue, tomb, or stone.

  29. engraved cut deeply in; carved in; carved in an artistic way

  30. unexplainable unaccountable; without apparent cause or reason

  31. pretending making believe

  32. invisible Not visible; not capable of being seen

  33. judge form an opinion or estimate about

  34. Weekly Fluency Check - Emotion • You need to read with emotion to help listeners understand characters and events better and to make the story more enjoyable. • Read Pg. 402, paragraphs 2-3, expressing Victor’s excitement and impatience.

  35. 3. He pulled a rabbit out of a hat and then putted them back again.4. Harry Houdini performed on stage, she also performed in movies.

  36. Singular and Plural Pronouns

  37. Singular Pronouns I, me you she, he, it him, her, it

  38. Plural Pronouns we, us you they them

  39. Jose loves to play baseball.

  40. He loves to play baseball.

  41. Does Adzie Healy play for the Stockdale Bulls?

  42. Does he play for them?

  43. That mother seems excited.

  44. She seems excited.

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