Unit 3 Week 4: New Ideas
What ideas can we get from nature?
Skills
Comprehension Strategy
Summarize – Determine main idea and key details.
Comprehension Skill
Main Idea and Key Details – Find the Main Idea and the Key Details that support the Main Idea.
Genre
Expository Text – Use text features to locate information
Grammar
Future Tense Verbs – Identify and use future tense verbs.
Vocabulary
Root Words – Use root words to find meanings of unknown words with prefixes.
Writing
Organization – Write informative/explanatory texts to convey ideas and information clearly.
Prompts:
Other Skills
Prefixes, final e syllables
Summarize – Determine main idea and key details.
Comprehension Skill
Main Idea and Key Details – Find the Main Idea and the Key Details that support the Main Idea.
Genre
Expository Text – Use text features to locate information
Grammar
Future Tense Verbs – Identify and use future tense verbs.
Vocabulary
Root Words – Use root words to find meanings of unknown words with prefixes.
Writing
Organization – Write informative/explanatory texts to convey ideas and information clearly.
Prompts:
- Choose your favorite idea from nature. Give reasons to support your opinion.
- Tell about an experience you had involving nature or the outdoors. Think about some of your favorite parts of that experience.
Other Skills
Prefixes, final e syllables
Vocabulary
Strategy: root words
Imitate – To try to be like that person or animal
Effective – Something that works well
Example – Something used to show what other similar things are like
Identical – Exactly the same
Material – The stuff used to make something
Model – A small copy of something
Observed – Looked at closely
Similar - Things that are alike but not exactly the same
Effective – Something that works well
Example – Something used to show what other similar things are like
Identical – Exactly the same
Material – The stuff used to make something
Model – A small copy of something
Observed – Looked at closely
Similar - Things that are alike but not exactly the same
Spelling: prefixes
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misprint
misread mistrust misspell mistreat precut preview prepaid preplan preheat |
distrust
discount dishonest discover disable stairs rear where prejudge disconnect |
Literature
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Textbooks: (NOT AR)
Big Ideas from Nature - Expository Text "Perdix Invents the Saw" - Myth "Bats Did it First" - Expository Text |
Leveled Readers:
Orange- Inspired by Nature 3.4 AR# 913469 Blue – Inspired by Nature 4.0 AR# 913499 Green- Inspired by Nature 4.8 AR# 913442 Purple- Inspired by Nature 3.8 AR# 913529 |