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Unit 5: Challenges Weekly Theme: Making Money Selection 1: Title: Boom Town Author: Sonia Levitin. Genre: Historical Fiction – a story in which fictional characters take part in actual historical events. Comprehension Strategy: Summarize Comprehension Skill: Chronological Order.
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Unit 5: Challenges Weekly Theme:Making MoneySelection 1:Title: Boom TownAuthor: Sonia Levitin
Genre: Historical Fiction– a story in which fictional characters take part in actual historical events. Comprehension Strategy: Summarize Comprehension Skill: Chronological Order
Phonics: decode compound words Spelling Focus: Compound Words airplane, daytime, birthday, daylight, hairdo, notebook, birdhouse, barefoot, headlight, sometime, someone, newspaper, sidewalks, basketball, stagecoach Review Words: states, inches, cities Challenge Words: somebody, handwriting
Key Vocabulary: sidewalks – paths by the side of the street grumbled – complained in a low voice traders – people who buy and sell things as a business blossomed – grew or developed wailed – made a long and sad cry lonesome – not often visited by people
Vocabulary Skills: Compound Words **These are words made up of two smaller words. You can often figure out the meaning of compound words by putting together the meanings of the smaller words. If that doesn’t work, look up the word in the dictionary.
Word Work: Grammar Skills: Pronouns A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns. A singular pronoun takes the place of a singular noun. A plural pronoun takes the place of a plural noun or more than one noun.