Theme 5: Times Have Changed
Focus: Monitor Understanding
Big Idea- when you monitor your understanding, you stop and think about whether you understand what you are reading.
Review: Synthesizing
Big Idea- When you synthesize, you gather information from the text to say it in a new or different way.

Vocabulary: Pages 148 & 162

Grammar: Commas in a series
Example: Sarah, Elizabeth, and Brooke went to the bookstore.
Review: Compound Sentences
Big Idea: two complete sentences that are joined by a conjunction. Example: She went to the movie, and she did her homework. (common conjunctions: and, but, or)

Word Study Week 1: ou and ow words
Example: proud and eyebrow
Word Study week 2: oy and oi
Example: Toy and foil

Writing: Poem
Big idea: Most poems have rhythm and rhyme.

*Theme 5 Writing Pieces: Adventure and Poem
*Theme 5 test/Writing piece due: October 31st
*Theme 5 Wonder Wednesday: November 1st