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Unit 3 Week 3: Discoveries

What do we know about Earth and its neighbors?

Skills

​Comprehension Strategy
Summarize - Write the key ideas and details of a passage
 
Comprehension Skill
Main Idea and key details – Identify main idea and supporting details of a passage
 
Genre
Expository Text – Gives true facts and information  about a topic
 
Grammar
Past-Tense Verbs – tells about an action that happened in the past
 
Writing
Organization – a strong paragraph includes a main idea and supporting sentences about the main idea.
Prompts:
  • Write a paragraph describing something in space. Remember to include a topic sentence and details in your paragraph.
  • Think about another planet that you would like to live on. Include several ideas that are related to the main idea that you have chosen.
 
Other Skills
Suffixes -y and -ly

Vocabulary
Strategy: suffixes

Amount – How much of that thing there is

Astronomy
– The study of the stars and planets

Globe
– A model of the earth (world)

Solar System
– Earth and the planets that move around the Sun

Support
– To provide what something or someone needs

Surface
– The outside of something
 
Temperature – How hot or cold something is

​Warmth
– to feel the heat 

Spelling: r-controlled vowels

careful
started
shared
pair
stairs
wear
bear
where
there
​dear
rear
gear
here
career
peer
shore
carve
storm
square
​clearly

Literature

Textbooks: ​(NOT AR)
Earth - Expository Text
"Coyote and the Jar of Stars" - Legend
​"Earth and Its Neighbors" - Expository Text
​Leveled Readers:
Orange- Destination Saturn 3.3 AR# 913464
Blue – Destination Saturn 4.1 AR# 913494
Green- Destination Saturn 4.6 AR# 913435
Purple- Destination Saturn 3.9 AR# 913524
Earth
Zuehlke, Jeffrey 
AR Quiz No. 130721 EN Nonfiction
 IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 0.5
 AR Quiz Types: RP
This book describes the unique features of Earth, its place in the solar system, its makeup, and how scientists have learned about our home planet through research.