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Unit 3: Patterns in Nature

Unit Question
What are some patterns in nature?

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The Stranger
by: Chris Van Allsburg  (Fantasy)

Question of the Week:
What changes in nature take place in the fall?

Skills and Strategies

Word Analysis:  Word Origins -Latin

Vocabulary Skill: Multiple-Meaning words

Conventions:  Action and Linking Verbs

Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect

Comprehension Strategy: Ask Questions

Related Links (games and stuff):
Linking Verbs
Linking or Action Verbs
Latin Root flashcards
Homographs (multiple meanings)
Cause and Effect 
Cause and Effect Matching
Pearson Reading Street Site

Vocabulary

1. draft
2. etched
3. fascinated
4. frost
5. parlor
6. terror
7. timid

Spelling Homework 
Fat Packet 

Spelling

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This week's pattern/skill: -ed and -ing endings

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Adelina's Whales
By: Richard Sobol (Photo Essay)

Question of the Week:
What patterns in nature guide the lives of animals?

Skills and Strategies

Word Analysis: Greek roots bio, phon, graph

Vocabulary Skills: Multiple-Meaning words

Conventions: Main and Helping Verbs

Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion

Comprehension Strategy: Graphic Organizers

Related Links:
Greek to Me
Greek Rags to RichesHomographs (multiple meanings)
Binky's Facts and Opinions
Graphic Organizers
Pearson Reading Street Site

Vocabulary

1. biologist
2. bluff
3. lagoon
4. massive
5. rumbling
6. tropical

Fat Packet
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How Night Came From the Sea
by: Mary-Joan Gerson   (Myth)

Question of the Week:
How have people explained the pattern of night and day?

Skills and Strategies

Word Analysis: Understand related words

Vocabulary Skills: Unfamiliar Words

Conventions: Subject Verb Agreement

Comprehension Skill: Generalize

Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
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Related Links:
Related Words
Subject Verb 2Bee
Subject Verb In Space
Copy Cat Game Subject Verb Agreement
Subject Verb Cheat Sheet
Subject Verb Agreement Quiz
Subject VerbTreasure Hunt
Subject Verb Mix-Up

Vocabulary

1. brilliant
2. chorus
3. coward
4. gleamed
5. shimmering

Fat Packet 
Spelling Homeowrk 

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Eye of the Storm: Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley
By: Stephen P. Krammer

Question of the Week:
How do weather patterns affect our lives?

Skills and Strategies

Word Analysis: Understand the meaning of Latin roots

Vocabulary Skills: Identify root words

Conventions: Identify past, present, and future tense

Comprehension Skill: Graphic sources

Comprehension Strategy:  Predict 

Related Links:
Verb Viper
Verb Jeopardy 
2Bee or Not 2Bee 
Create a Graph 
Verb Tense Puzzle Match Up 
Grammar Picnic Verb Tenses
Latin Root flashcards
Rooting Out Words
Hurricane Video

Vocabulary

1. surge
2. forecasts
3. destruction
4. shatter
5. expected
6. inland

Eye of the Storm Spelling Homework 
Eye of the Storm FP 

Spelling

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Paul Bunyan
By:    (Tall Tale)

Question of the Week:
What causes changes in nature.

Skills and Strategies

Word Analysis: Related Words

Vocabulary Skills: Suffixes

Conventions: Irregular Verbs

Comprehension Skill: Generalize

Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
                                        Compare and Contrast 

Related Links: 
Irregular Verb Game
Mr. Anker Verbs
Suffix Games
Compare and Contrast
Compare and Contrast Review
One Grain of Rice
Irregular Verb Jeopardy!

Vocabulary

1. announcement
   
2. feature
   
3. harness
   
4. lumberjack
   
5. requirements
   
6. thaw
   
7. unnatural 
   
8. untamed

Paul Bunyan Spelling Homework 
Paul Bunyan 

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