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:
Other Skills
Suffixes -y and -ly
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
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
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careful
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rear
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Literature
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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.
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.