unit 7 week 4 day 3 local leaders. build theme connections o focus question: how does a local...
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Use Multiple Vocabulary Strategies O We have learned three strategies we can use to help us find the meaning of words. Analyzing Idioms Classifying words Using Multiple Meaning wordsTRANSCRIPT
Unit 7 Week 4Day 3
Local Leaders
Build Theme Connections
O Focus Question: How does a local government help make a good community?
O How has the local government made improvements in your community?
O What have you read or heard about how local governments help make communities safer?
O How do local governments provide places for people to have fun, to meet one another, and to learn new things?
Use Multiple Vocabulary Strategies
O We have learned three strategies we can use to help us find the meaning of words.
Analyzing IdiomsClassifying wordsUsing Multiple Meaning words
Comprehension Skill:Sequence Events
O Sequence is the order in which events take place.
O An author usually tells events in the order they happened, but sometimes readers have to figure out the sequence themselves.
O What would happen if the author did not pay attention to the sequence of events when writing a story?
O Practice by retelling Officer Buckle and Gloria, telling the events in the correct order.
Word Work:Phonics
O /k/ spelled chschool ache chorus
What sound do the letters ch stand for in each word?Write a word that uses the following letters to stand for the /k/ sound.
k ck c ch
Word Work:Suffixes
O Suffixes are endings that can change the meanings of base words.
O Carefully= in a way that is careful
O Hopeful= full of hope
O Collection= the result of collecting
Word WorkHigh frequency words:
Break, father, friendless, mother, mountain, once, river, song,
whose
Fluency:Practice Companion page 196The Library Book
Prepare to Read:Author’s Purpose
O Authors write to inform, persuade, entertain, and express ideas
Which book did the author write to inform?Which book did the author write to entertain?How did each author address the focus question?What questions would you like to ask the authors?
Revise the ModelO How students revise:
Delete words or details that don’t belong
Substitute more interesting words for overused words
Rearrange sentences so ideas flow more smoothly
Edit the ModelO Writing Models Chart page 55
On the fourth of july, our town puts on a fireworks show in our town. The show start when the sky gets dark, Shiny sparkles fall like rane and disappear. A shell shoots up fast and bursts too a bright, flowing light.
• Do any sentences need to be switched?• Does the paragraph give enough details?• Are there spelling, punctuation, or capitalization
mistakes?• Are there grammar errors?
EditO On the fourth of july, our town puts
on a fireworks show in our town. The show start when the sky gets dark, Shiny sparkles fall like rane and disappear. A shell shoots up fast and bursts too a bright, flowing light.
Seat WorkO Practice: 199, 202-203, 206O Phonics: noneO Fluency: 196O Spelling: Write each word three
timesO Writing: Rough draft descriptive
paragraphO Study Station: 4 column chart