Transcript Compare and Contrast

Weeks 24-25
Ms. Brittany, Ms. Vanessa, and Ms. Sarabeth
Vocabulary
1. To alert is to give warning. Cognate: alerta
2. A competition is a situation in which people or animals are trying
to be more successful than others. Cognate: competencia
3. An environment is the natural features of a place.
4. Something that is excellent is very good. Cognate: excelente
5. To prefer is to like better. Cognate: preferir
6. Protection is when something is kept safe. Cognate: protección
7. Shelter is something that covers or protects.
8. To be related is to belong to the same family.
Spelling
Taught hauls caused paused squawk drawing crawl flawless
lawn salt talked halls water bought thoughtless
Review: inches, cities, cherries
Challenge: walrus, autumn
Spelling
Display the spelling words. Read them aloud, drawing out
and slowly enunciating the /ô/ sounds in each word.
Model for students how to spell the word lawn. Segment the
word sound by sound, then attach a spelling to each sound.
Point out that aw is one way to spell the /ô/ sound.
Demonstrate sorting the spelling words by pattern under key
words taught, lawn, and salt.
Remind them that /ô/ can be spelled aw, au, a, and ou as in
bought.
Essential Question:
How do animals adapt
to challenges in their
habitat?
Main and Helping Verbs
Sometimes a verb may be more than one word. The
main verb tells what the subject is or does. The helping
verb helps the main verb show action.
Have, has, and had can be helping verbs. Helping verbs
must agree with the subject in simple and compound
sentences:
Lee and I have decided to join the tennis team.
Marley had examined the plant’s roots, and Bryan had
removed its dry leaves.
Main and Helping Verbs
Review main and helping verbs. Have, has, and had are
helping verbs.
Introduce More Helping Verbs
The verb forms of be can also act as helping verbs. Is, are,
am, was, were, and will can be helping verbs:
The kittens are playing with the yarn.
The helping verb must agree with the subject of the sentence
in simple and compound sentences:
The kitten is playing with the yarn.
Main and Helping Verbs: Mechanics and Usage:
Commas and Quotation Marks in Dialogue
Quotation marks show that someone is speaking. They
come at the beginning and end of the speaker’s exact words.
Begin a quotation with a capital letter. Commas and
periods appear inside quotation marks.
If the end of a quotation comes at the end of a sentence, use
a period, question mark, or exclamation mark to end it.
If the sentence continues after a quotation, use a comma to
close.
Proofread
Have students correct errors in these sentences.
1. They was riding bicycles in the park
2. The pet shop owner said, put the goldfish in a bowl
with fresh water.
3. randall was here yesterday“ said Susan.
4. Jerry noticed his friend was coming fast down the
hill when he said, terry look out for the tree!
Comprehension Strategy:
REREAD
Explain that when students read expository text, they may come
across unfamiliar ideas and facts. Remind students that they can
reread difficult sections of text to increase their understanding.
Good readers reread something that they do not understand.
When students come across a section of text that does not make
sense, they can stop and reread that section. They may need to
reread it more than once before they understand it.
Often, students may find that rereading will improve their
understanding of expository text.
Point out that after rereading, students can ask and answer
questions about what they have reread to help remember key facts
and ideas.
Comprehension Skill
Compare and Contrast
Explain to students that they can compare and contrast
two things in expository texts to understand how they are
alike and different.
To compare, students should look for ways that two things
are alike. To contrast, students should look for ways two
things are different.
Students can look for signal words like both, alike, same,
or different to help them compare and contrast.
Expository Text
Expository text gives important facts and information
about a topic. The topic may be about science.
Expository text may include text features such as maps,
photographs, and captions. However, even if a text has
none of these features, it may still be an expository text.
Context Clues
Remind students that they can often figure out the
meaning of an unknown word by using context clues
within the sentence.
To find sentence clues, students can look for phrases
between commas that are near the unknown word.
Sentence clues may define or tell what the unknown
word means or they may provide a further description
of the word.
Greek and Latin Roots
Many English words come from the Greek or Latin
language. Learning Greek and Latin roots can help
readers figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words.
The word part -graph comes from a Greek word that
means “something written.” The word photograph
means “written picture.”
The word part aud- comes from a Latin word that
means “to hear or listen.” The word audience means “a
group of listeners.”