The Horned Toad Prince test and spelling test will be on _________
Story: The Horned Toad Prince
Comprehension Strategy: Author's Purpose
Comprehension Skill: Story Structure
Vocabulary:
1. bargain- a deal or an agreement to trade or exchange
2. favor- an act of kindness
3. lassoed- caught with a long rope with a loop on one end
4. offended-hurt the feelings of someone; made angry, displeased, or pained.
5. prairie-a large area of level or rolling land with grass but few or no trees
6. riverbed- a channel in which a river flows or used to flow
7. shrieked-made a loud, sharp, shrill sound
Vocabulary Focus: Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms: are words with the same or similar meanings, such as large and big.
Antonyms: are words with opposite meanings, such as happy and sad.
Grammar: Compound Sentences
A compound sentence is made up of two simple sentences joined by a comma and a connecting word such as and, but, or or.
Simple Sentences: Fairy tales are very old. Children still enjoy them.
Compound Sentence: Fairy tales are very old, but children still enjoy them.
Spelling Focus: Words with Long e
Story: The Horned Toad Prince
Comprehension Strategy: Author's Purpose
Comprehension Skill: Story Structure
Vocabulary:
1. bargain- a deal or an agreement to trade or exchange
2. favor- an act of kindness
3. lassoed- caught with a long rope with a loop on one end
4. offended-hurt the feelings of someone; made angry, displeased, or pained.
5. prairie-a large area of level or rolling land with grass but few or no trees
6. riverbed- a channel in which a river flows or used to flow
7. shrieked-made a loud, sharp, shrill sound
Vocabulary Focus: Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms: are words with the same or similar meanings, such as large and big.
Antonyms: are words with opposite meanings, such as happy and sad.
Grammar: Compound Sentences
A compound sentence is made up of two simple sentences joined by a comma and a connecting word such as and, but, or or.
Simple Sentences: Fairy tales are very old. Children still enjoy them.
Compound Sentence: Fairy tales are very old, but children still enjoy them.
Spelling Focus: Words with Long e
Letters Home weekly test and spelling test will be on Friday, September 30th
Story: Letters Home
Comprehension Strategy: Main Idea- is the most important idea from a paragraph, passage, or article. Details- are small pieces of information that tell more about the main idea.
Vocabulary:
1. glacier-a great mass of ice moving very slowly down a mountain, along a valley, or over a land area.
2. impressive- able to have a strong effect on the mind or feelings; able to influence deeply.
3. naturalist-a person who makes a study of living things
4. preserve- to protect it, keep it safe, or keep it from farm or change
5. slopes-any lines, surfaces, or land that goes up or down at an angle
6. species-a set of related living things that all have certain characteristics
7. wilderness- a wild, uncultivated region with few or no people living in it.
Vocabulary Focus: Suffixes
A suffix is a word part added to the end of a base word to change its meaning. You can use a suffix to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
The suffix -ist can make a word mean "one who is an expert in." The suffix -ive means "tending or inclined to__."
Grammar: Clauses and Complex Sentences
Complex sentences contain clauses.
A clause is a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb.
An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence:
Marianne got an award.
A dependent clause cannot stand alone as a sentence:
because she won first place.
A dependent clause often begins with a connecting word such as before, when, or because.
A complex sentence includes an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Spelling Focus: Words with Long u
Story: Letters Home
Comprehension Strategy: Main Idea- is the most important idea from a paragraph, passage, or article. Details- are small pieces of information that tell more about the main idea.
Vocabulary:
1. glacier-a great mass of ice moving very slowly down a mountain, along a valley, or over a land area.
2. impressive- able to have a strong effect on the mind or feelings; able to influence deeply.
3. naturalist-a person who makes a study of living things
4. preserve- to protect it, keep it safe, or keep it from farm or change
5. slopes-any lines, surfaces, or land that goes up or down at an angle
6. species-a set of related living things that all have certain characteristics
7. wilderness- a wild, uncultivated region with few or no people living in it.
Vocabulary Focus: Suffixes
A suffix is a word part added to the end of a base word to change its meaning. You can use a suffix to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
The suffix -ist can make a word mean "one who is an expert in." The suffix -ive means "tending or inclined to__."
Grammar: Clauses and Complex Sentences
Complex sentences contain clauses.
A clause is a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb.
An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence:
Marianne got an award.
A dependent clause cannot stand alone as a sentence:
because she won first place.
A dependent clause often begins with a connecting word such as before, when, or because.
A complex sentence includes an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Spelling Focus: Words with Long u