Letters Home weekly test and spelling test will be on _____________
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