Transcript Theme 1: Relationships Weekly Theme: School Days Selection

Unit 3:
Discoveries
Weekly Theme:
The Art of Illustrating
Selection 5:
Title: What Do Illustrators Do?
Author: Eileen Christelow
Genre:
Narrative Nonfiction– a story about actual events, living things, or people
Comprehension Strategy:
Analyze Text Structure
Comprehension Skill:
Chronological Order
Spelling words for this week:
I can spell words with the /oi/ sound as in
point. (-oi, -oy)
coy, soil, foil, toil, coins, point, noise,
loyal, boiled, spoiled, enjoys, voice,
choice, soybean, joyful
Review Words: spoon, rude, shook
Challenge Words: noisy, checkpoint
Key Vocabulary:
instance – an example of something
illustrate – draw a picture to explain or
decorate something written
style – a particular way of doing something
textures – the ways surfaces feel when you
touch them
sketches – simple drawings that are done
quickly
suggestions – plans or ideas that are offered
to others
Vocabulary Skills:
Context Clues: Sentence Clues
**Use context clues in the same or in a nearby sentence to figure out the
meaning of an unfamiliar word.
To figure out the meaning that fits in a sentence, look up the word in a
dictionary and choose the meaning that makes sense in context.
Grammar Skills:
I can combine sentences using conjunctions.
Join two sentences with the same subject by combining the predicates. Combine the
predicates with and. Check for subject/verb agreement.
Example:
Dan draws birds. Dan paints snakes.
Dan draws birds and paints snakes.