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Unit 1 Week 3: Communities

How do people from different cultures contribute to a community?

Skills

​Comprehension Strategy
Ask and Answer Questions-reread text and use details from the text to ask and answer questions
 
Comprehension Skill
Sequence-is the order in which a story’s events happen.
 
Genre
Narrative Nonfiction-an example would be an autobiography which tells the true story of a person’s life.
 
Vocabulary
Compound words-a word made up of two smaller words.
 
Grammar
Subjects-tells what or whom the sentence is about.
 
Writing
Narrative text-this includes friendly letters or personal narratives (when you write about personal experiences).
Prompts:
  • Write about something that really happened to you. Put your ideas in order.
  • Tell about a time when you experienced a different culture. Put your ideas in order.
 
Other Skills
Inflected endings

Vocabulary
Strategy: compound words

Admires - when someone likes something you have done
 
Classmate - someone who is in your class at school
 
Community - a place where people live, work, and play together
 
Contribute - you give money or help
 
Practicing - when you do something again and again
 
Pronounce - when saying a word you say the sounds correctly
 
Scared – afraid of something
 
Tumbled - when you lose balance and fall

Spelling: final e

date
lake
skate
plane
grade
fine
life
rice
wise
​smile
rose
globe
smoke
come
used
step
rock
luck
sneeze
​stripe

Literature

Textbooks: ​(NOT AR)
Gary the Dreamer - Narrative Nonfiction
"Sharing Polkas and Pitas" - Expository Text
​"Room to Grow" - Narrative Nonfiction
​Leveled Readers:
Orange- Judy Baca 3.6 AR# 913470
Blue – Judy Baca 4.2 AR# 913500
Green- Judy Baca 4.8 AR# 913443
Purple- Judy Baca 4.0 AR# 913531

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