Question of the week:   How can we achieve goals?

Kumak's Fish

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Genre of the Week: 
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events.. This is a story about a family that went fishing? What exaggeration is in this story?

This Week's Focus Comprehension Skill:  
Sequence- the order in which things happen in a story. Examples of time order words: First, next, then, last.
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​This Week's Focus Comprehension Strategy:
Visualize - We visualize, to form pictures in our minds about what is happening a story or article. This helps us monitor our comprehension.  

​This Week's Story Vocabulary:
This week we are working on Dictionary-Glossary and Unknown Words.

• You can use a glossary or a dictionary to find the meanings of unknown words.
• If you don't know the meaning of a word it is an unknown word.
• Entries in glossaries and dictionaries are in alphabetical order. 

gear - equipment needed for some purpose
parka - a jacket with a hood
splendid - magnificent or grand
twitch - to move with a quick jerk
willow - a tree with tough slender branches
yanked - pulled or jerked

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Conventions Declarative & Interrogative  A sentence that tells something is a statement. It is called a declarative sentence. A sentence that asks something is a question. It is called an interrogative sentence.  ​

Additional Tall Tale Resources
Animated Tall Tales  
Thinkquest: Tall Tales  
Paul Bunyon  
Arctic Maps 
Kids Fishing in Alaska 
Inuit Information for Kids ​


More Inuit Village Pictures ​