Transcript solar system

Unit 2:
Investigations
Weekly Theme:
Out In Space
Selection 4:
Title: The Planets in Our Solar
System
Author: Franklyn M. Branley
Genre:
Informational Nonfiction– a story that uses facts
to explain about real people, things, places,
situations, or events.
Comprehension Strategy:
Generate Questions
Comprehension Skill:
Main Ideas and Details
Phonics:
decode words with consonant blends
Spelling Focus:
thread, scrubs, spree, screams, stream,
scratch, spread, throne, three, screens,
spray, throw, strong, scraped, strength
Review Words: thick, washing, whales
Challenge Words: streamer, scribble
Key Vocabulary:
solar system – the sun and all the planets, comets,
and satellites that circle it
easily – without trouble or hard work
farther – at a greater distance than something else
main – most important
dim – having or giving little light; not bright
temperature – measures of how hot or cold things
are
telescope
a tool that makes faraway objects look
closer
probably
likely to happen or be true
Vocabulary Skills:
Context Clues
** Signal words that help
readers figure out meanings of
unknown words.
Signal words such as it is, called,
which are, and mean may come
before a definition.
Word Work:
Grammar Skills:
Singular Possessive Nouns
A possessive noun is a noun that shows who or what
owns or has something.
Add an apostrophe (‘) and the letter s to a singular
noun to make it possessive.
Example: Clayton’s telescope is huge.