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Question of the Week:  What do we need to know about saving and spending?

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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:
  • Persuade
  • Inform
  • Entertain
  • Explain
  • Describe

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This Week's Focus Comprehension Strategy: 

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? 


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



 

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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)
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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