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Angel Child, Dragon ChildThird Grade: Open Court Unit: Friendship

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Word Knowledge Day 1Line 1: noses hands lessons crayonsLine 2: hooks seeds books words

Line 3: tilt tilted tilting wait waited waiting

Line 4: bow bowed bowingLine 5: curve curved curving tackle tackled

tackling

Line 6: small smaller smallest tall taller tallestLine 7: them send next bell edge

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Word KnowledgeSentence 1: The American children tilted back

their long noses, laughing.

Sentence 2: I stood and bowed.

Sentence 3: Her hands curved over my shoulders.

Sentence 4: Friends like for you to send them letters in the mail.

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Build BackgroundWhat did you learn about friendship

from the last story? In “Gloria Who Might Be My Friend”, we discussed what it’s like to move to a new place. What might it be like to move to a new country? Gloria and Julian’s friendship was unexpected. What other stories about surprising friendships do you know?

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Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia. In 1957 the country was having a civil war. The United States became involved in it. Many Vietnamese people fled their country. They went to refugee camps, or traveled by boats to new places. Many families ended up separated.

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Nguyen (nōō yen) is the main character’s family name. Her given name (first name) is Hoa (hwä), which means “flower”. Ut (ōōt) is her nickname★ meaning youngest daughter. Quang (kwäng) is her younger brother and her older sister is Chi Hai (chē hī). Vietnamese people value family, therefore they put their family name (last name) before their given name.

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Clues Problems Wonderings

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jangled

• Make a loud ringing noise

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twittered

• chattered noisily, sounding like chirping birds

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gleamed

• was bright and shiny

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darted

• Moved or ran quickly from one place to another place

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scrawled

• wrote quickly but not carefully

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margins

• empty spaces at the edge of the page, above, below, to the left and right

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Vocabulary1. His laughing eyes _________ liked

watermelon seeds.

2. I crayoned pictures in the _________.

3. Somewhere a loud bell _________.

4. The red haired boy _________ behind the dumpster.

5. Raymond _________ my words in black squiggles.

6. The round-eyed children _________.

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Language ArtsSpelling

/e/1. deck 2. tent3. spent 4. fence5. head 6. dead 7. bread 8. desk 9. thread 10. sweater 11.edge 12. bell

13.next 14. send

15. them