Transcript Theme 1: Relationships Weekly Theme: School Days Selection

Unit 4: Our Team
Big Idea:
Community Teamwork
People in a community can work together to make
a community a better place.
Selection 3:
Title: A Solution to Pollution
Time Magazine For Kids
Genre:
Non Fiction– Some articles give information about real people,
places, or things.
Comprehension Strategy:
Summarize
Comprehension Skill:
Problem/Solution
Phonics:
decode words with /ô/
Spelling Focus:
words with aw, au, al, ough
yawn, taught, salt, lawn, halls, hauls, hawks,
squawk, bought, bawls, drawing, caused,
paused, crawled, coughing
Challenge Words: walrus, autumn, haunted, brought,
thoughtful
1. The hawks started to squawk.
2. Andres bought the drawing of a flower.
3. “Who was coughing in the halls?” asked Alexa.
Key Vocabulary:
magnificent – wonderful; very beautiful
masterpiece – a great work; a very good
example of something
ingredient – one of the parts of a mixture
recipes – lists of ingredients and
directions for making food
tasty – having a good flavor
Vocabulary Skills:
Idioms
** An expression whose meaning is
different from the meaning of each
separate word
Sometimes you can use the
dictionary to help you figure out
what idioms mean.
Ex.: “on cloud nine” means very happy
Word Work:
Grammar Skills:
Contractions with Not
A contraction is a shortened form of two words.
An apostrophe takes the place of one or more letters.
Some contractions are formed with the verbs be, do,
have, and not.
These verbs do not usually change their spellings in a
contraction with not.