Question of the Week: What do we need to know about saving and spending?
My Rows and Piles of Coins |
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Genre of the Week:
Realistic Fiction: A realistic fiction is a made up story that has characters, a setting, and events that seem real. The story may be based on real life, but the characters and their words and thoughts are imaginary. |
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This Week's Focus Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose:
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This Week's Focus Comprehension Strategy:
Story Structure:
Story Structure:
- A story has a beginning, middle, and an end.
- This means that events happen all along the way.
- One event leads to the next.
- Good readers use this structure to learn about the characters and the setting.
- What events happened in this story? What are the beginning, middle, and ending?
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This Week's Story Vocabulary: arranged - put in order bundles - things tied together dangerously - in a dangerous way errands - short trips to do things excitedly - showing strong feeling steady - stable, not easily moved unwrapped - took off the wrapping wobbled - shook or swayed while moving |
Prefix: letters added to the beginning of a word, before the base word (un - not or opposite of)
Suffix: letters added to the end of a word (-ly in a _____ way) |
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Conventions -
Simple Sentence: has one subject and one predicate Compound Sentence: two simple sentences joined by a comma and a word (and, but, or) |
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