Theme 8: Predicting Nature’s Hazards
Focus: Determine Importance
Big Idea: When you determine importance while you read, it helps you understand the main idea of a passage. Within each paragraph some details are more important to the main idea than other details.
Review: Use Fix-up Strategies
Big Idea: Context clues help readers understand what a difficult word means. Sometimes replacing the difficult word with a synonym helps you better understand what a word means.
Vocab: pages 252 and 266
Grammar
Singular and Plural nouns: A singular noun is one person, place, or thing. A plural noun is more than one person, place, or thing.
Example: Singular- Snake; Plural- Snakes
Irregular plural nouns: To make most nouns plural, add -s or -es; however, some nouns are irregular.
Example: Singular- man; plural- men
Word Study week 1: Homonyms
Big Idea: Homonyms are two (or more) words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings
Example: Raise and Rays
Word Study Week 2: word endings -ed, -ing, and -s
Big Idea: These endings change the meaning of the word.
Example: Walk vs. walked (past tense), laugh vs. laughing (present tense), and storm vs. storms (more than one)
Writing: Observation Log
Big Idea: This genre of writing keeps track of observations over a period of time. It uses dates, times, and details to keep track of change.
Theme 8 Test: Tuesday, December 20th