Unit 3 Week 3 Kid Reporters at Work

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Unit 3 Week 3Kid Reporters at Work

• ONeal 4th Grade

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Vocabulary

• identified proved that you recognized something
• enterprising full of ideas and willing to try
  new things
• persistence the ability to keep trying even
  when you face problems
• venture a project that involves some risk taking

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Vocabulary Words In Contextidentified persist
ence enterprising venture

• Shauna is an _____________ newspaper carrier.
• Jim ____________ his backpack in the pile.
• Our ____________ into the cookie business had
  many challenges.
• It is important to have ____________ when
  learning to play a new instrument.

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Vocabulary Story Words

• promote move forward, improve, advance
• priority importance, urgency, necessity
• devastating causing great ruin, extremely
  destructive
• commitment sense of duty, dedication
• compare - tell how two or more things are alike
• contrast tell how two or more things are
  different

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Vocabulary Word Endingsed ing

• There are three main changes when adding these
  endings to a base word.

double the final consonant stop/stopping
change the y to i envy/envied
drop the silent e take/taking
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Vocabulary Word EndingsChoose the rule

• organized identified planning
• enterprising getting babysitting
  living

double the final consonant stop/stopping
change the y to i envy/envied
drop the silent e take/taking
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Fluency Intonation and Pausing

• Good readers vary the intonation of their voices
  to make what is happening in the text clearer.
  For the same reason, they also pause at
  appropriate places.

Choose an online story to practice your
intonation and pausing Thanksgiving Stories
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Fluency Echo Read

• Gidget Schultz couldnt bear to see kids living
  on the streets near her Encinitas, California,
  home. So Gidget, now 14, started her own
  charity.
• Gidgets Way gives backpacks, jackets, and
  school supplies to homeless kids. Gidget also
  gives teddy bears to local police to keep in
  their cars. Officers give the bears to kids who
  are scared, sad, or hurt. Running Gidgets Way
  is a full time job, says Gidget.

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Comprehension Main Idea and Details

• The main idea is the most important idea of a
  paragraph. It is often the first sentence of a
  paragraph. Most of the other sentences will
  support the main idea.
• Supporting ideas are the sentences that support
  the main idea. Sometimes a writer includes
  details that do not support the main idea. These
  details make the passage more interesting, or
  they might provide a little more information.

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Comprehension Compare and Contrast

• A comparison tells how two or more ideas, things,
  or people are alike.
• Comparisons may not be directly stated I a text,
  so you will need to look for clues that the
  author is showing things to be similar.
• Some words and phrases that signal comparisons
  include similar, also, in addition, in the same
  way, likewise, and too.

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Vocabulary Compare and Contrast

• When two or more things, ideas, or people are
  contrasted, the author tells how they are
  different.
• Contrast can be shown indirectly as well.
• Some words and phrases that signal contrast are
  but, on the other hand, unlike, although,
  however, rather than, yet, still, different from,
  opposite, and or.

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Compare and Contrast The First
Thanksgiving...The Wampanoags Perspective
...The English Colonists Perspective
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Compare and Contrast Practice

• Compare and Contrast Workshop
• Compare and Contrast Study Zone Practice
• Interactive Venn Diagram

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Phonics Soft c and g

• The letters c and g can have either a hard or
  soft sound.
• The letter c has a soft /s/ sound in cement.
• The letter g has a soft /j/ sound in germ.
• When c comes before the letters i or e, it has an
  /s/ sound.
• When g comes before the letters i or e, it has a
  /j/ sound.

Soft G and C
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Reflection Day 1

• What is the meaning of enterprising as it is used
  in the story? What context clues helped you
  define the word? Use two details or examples from
  the story to support your answer.

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Reflection Day 2

• Complete the chart to compare and contrast how
  the U.N. and the WCO are alike and different.
  Use two details and/or examples from the story
  for how they are alike and two details/examples
  for how they are different.

How U.N. and WCO are alike How U.N. and WCO are different
1. 2. 1. 2.
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Reflection Day 3
Reread the article, A World Conference Just for
Kids. Summarize the article.
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Reflection Day 4
Choose one of the articles you have read. Imagine
that the article was published in your local
newspaper. Write a short letter to the editor to
express your agreement or disagreement with the
author of the passage.
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Reflection Day 5

• Read page 338.
• Laws in the United States require children to
  attend school. Do you think the United States
  still needs those laws? Explain your answer.

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Coming Soon!

• Next week, we will be reading Mystic Horse. It
  is a Native American legend.
• We will be learning about sequence and
  homophones.
• Iroquois Storytelling