A Symphony of Whales

Question of the Week:  How can people help animals in danger?

Genre of the Week:  
Fiction

Listen to reading.

This Week's Focus Comprehension Skill:  Generalize:  
When you read ideas about several things, you may see how they are alike in some way.  You can make a general statement     about all of them together.
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This Week's Focus Comprehension Strategy: 
Story Structure
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This Week's Story Vocabulary:  
surrounded- shut in on all sides; encircled; enclosed
channel- a waterway that joins two larger bodies of water
bay- a part of a sea or lake partly surrounded by land
blizzards- snowstorms with very strong, cold winds
supplies- food and other necessary items
anxiously- uneasily; nervously
chipped- cut or broke off small, thin pieces of something
melody- an easily remembered series of musical notes
symphony- a long musical piece for an orchestra

Conventions: Tenses
Past, Present & Future Tenses

Suffixes
-ly means in a ____ way 
-less means without
ful means filled with
-ness means the condition of being
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