Unit 3 NotesReading: Journeys

Lesson 11 Theme: Starting Anew

• Essential Question: What are the benefits of studying weather?

• Story: Hurricanes – Earth’s Mightiest Storms

• Skill: Text & Graphic Features/Text Structure

• Spelling – Compound Words

• Vocabulary

• Strategy: Suffixes –ful, -less, -ness, -ment

Lesson 11 Spelling – Compound Words

somebody classmatefireplace flashlightnearby haircuttoothbrush twenty-twohomesick drivewaymake-believe alarm clockanything baby-sitall right airportgoodbye foreverforehead mailbox

Challenge:

field tripabsent-mindedlife jacketskyscrapernevertheless

Lesson 11 Target Vocabulary

1. whirling – spinning quickly in a circle

2. rapidly – quickly

3. condense – to form tiny droplets of water

4. source – the place where something comes from

5. rotating – turning or spinning

6. rage –to act in a violent way

7. experience – to see and feel the effects of something

8. ancient – very old

9. predict – to say something that is going to happen

10.registered – to have recorded information

Lesson 11 Suffixes Suffix MeaningExample

- ful “full of” fearful

- less “without”careless

- ness “state or condition of”

kindness

Lesson 12 Theme: Miracles

• Essential Question: How do natural disasters affect people?

• Story: The Earth Dragon Awakes

• Skill: Sequence of Events/Conclusions

• Spelling – -ed or -ing

• Vocabulary

• Strategy: Synonyms

Lesson 12 Spellingrising dripped

tracedbegged

stripped dared

slammed skipped

dancing hitting

striped spotted

winning raced

snapping dimmed

bragging spinning

handled escaped

Challenge:

urgedstrivingwhippedbreathingquizzed

For adding –ed or –ing to a word ending with a vowel + constanant …DOUBLE THE CONSTONANT BEFORE ADDING ED OR ING

Lesson 12 Target Vocabulary

1. constructed – built

2. crushing – smashing/breaking

3. tenement – an apartment building often poorly maintained

4. possessions – things you own; belongings

5. trembles – shakes

6. wreckage – leftover bits of something that is ruined

7. debris – pieces of broken stones or bricks

8. rubble – broken stone or bricks

9. slab- a broad, flat piece

10.timbers – large pieces of wood

Lesson 13 Theme: Being One

• Essential Question: How are the different parts of an ecosystem connected?

• Story: Antarctic Journal

• Skill: Sequence of Events/Similie/Metaphore

• Spelling – -ed or -ing

• Vocabulary

• Strategy: Greek/Latin word parts

• spect, struct, tele, vis

Lesson 13 Spelling wiped shipped

covered phoning

mapped offered

pleasing smelling

slipped hiking

putting checking

traveled fainted

seeking landed

visiting becoming

mixedwandering

Challenge: amusing, entertained, admitted, stunning starving

If a base word has 1 syllable and ends with one consonant, double the consonant and add –ed or –ing.

Lesson 13 Target Vocab

1. vision – a mental image of what something could be like

2. standards – levels used to compare

3. huddle – crowd together

4. alert – aware of

5. weariness – tiredness

6. fractured – broken

7. graceful – elegant

8. stranded – left helpless

9. display – show

10.concluded – formed an opinion

Lesson 13 Greek & Latin Word Parts

Root Word Origin Meaning Example

spect Latin “look” inspect

struct Latin “build” structure

tele Greek “far away”telephone

vis Latin “see” vision

Lesson 14 Theme: Our Role in Catholic Community

Essential Question: How do living things each have an important role in the world?

• Story: Hurricanes – The Life and Times of the Ant

• Skill: Text Features/Author’s Purpose/Question

• Spelling – Final Long e

• Vocabulary

• Strategy: Suffixes –able and -ible

Lesson 14 Spelling – Final Long e

turkey duty

lonelydrowsy

colonychimney

steadyplenty

hungry daily

valley alley

hockey fifty

starry empty

melody injury

movieprairie

Challenge: envy, fiery, mercy, discovery, mystery

Lesson 14 Target Vocab

1. transport – carry from one place to another

2. social – relating to the way people live together

3. obstacles – things in the way

4. scarce – hard to find

5. exchanges – giving one thing and getting another

6. transfers – moves from one place to another

7. chamber – a room

8. reinforce – make stronger

9. storage – a place to keep supplies

10.excess - extra

Lesson 14 Vocab Strategy

Suffix -IBLE -ABLE

Both come from Latin Both mean “able to be” or

“inclined to be”

Lesson 15 Theme: Involvement

• Essential Question: Why is it important to be informed about what is happening in our world?

• Story: Ecology for Kids

• Skill: Main Idea/Details

• Spelling – Change Final y to i

• Vocabulary

• Strategy: Using Context

Lesson 15 Spelling tiniest ladies

hobbies friendlier

copiedstudied

countries busier

pitied breezier

easierprettiest

laziestnoisier

families healthier

spied butterflies

happiest funniest

Challenge: heaviest, categories, communities, multiplied, qualities

Lesson 15 Target Vocab

1. habitats – the environment that animals and plants live in

2. species – a group of plants or animals that are alike

3. organisms – living things such as plants or animals

4. traces – marks left by people. animals, or things

5. vast – great in size

6. directly – in a clear and obvious way

7. affect – to have an influence on

8. variety – a number of slightly different things within the same grouping

9. radiation – energy in the form of rays or waves

10.banned – not allowed; forbidden