Week 4:

Unit 4 Week 4: Flight

How are people able to fly?

Skills

Comprehension Strategy
Reread-when something doesn’t make sense reread for better understanding.

Comprehension Skill
Cause and Effect-cause is why something happens; effect is what happens

Genre
Expository text-gives important facts and information on a topic and may include various text features.

Grammar
Complex Sentences

Writing
Narrative text/Poetry-this includes fictional narratives (which are made-up stories that include a problem and solution) and Poetry (where feeling and ideas are expressed in writing).
Prompts:

Tell which flying machine is your favorite. Give reasons to support your opinion.
Tell where you would go if you could fly anywhere in the world. Include a concluding sentence.

Other Skills
Commas in sentences

Vocabulary
Strategy: context clues

Controlled- adjusted or moved by something else

Direction- the line or course something moves along

Flight- the act of flying

Impossible- can’t be done

Launched- put into motion

Motion- is moving

Passenger- person who travels in a vehicle

Popular- liked by many people

Spelling: homophones

sale
sail
beet
beat
rode
road
rowed
its
it's
your

you're
their
they're
peace
piece
taught
talked
bought
seen
scene

Literature

Textbooks: (NOT AR)
Hot Air Balloons - Expository Text
"Bellerophon and Pegasus" - Myth
"Firsts in Flight" - Expository Text