Transcript Unit 7 Week 4 Day 3 - Parkland School District

Unit 7
Week 4
Day 3
Local Leaders
Build Theme Connections
O Focus Question: How does a local government
help make a good community?
O How has the local government made
improvements in your community?
O What have you read or heard about how local
governments help make communities safer?
O How do local governments provide places for
people to have fun, to meet one another, and to
learn new things?
Use Multiple Vocabulary
Strategies
O We have learned three strategies we can
use to help us find the meaning of words.
Analyzing Idioms
Classifying words
Using Multiple Meaning words
Comprehension Skill:
Sequence Events
O Sequence is the order in which events take
place.
O An author usually tells events in the order
they happened, but sometimes readers have
to figure out the sequence themselves.
O What would happen if the author did not pay
attention to the sequence of events when
writing a story?
O Practice by retelling Officer Buckle and
Gloria, telling the events in the correct order.
Word Work:
Phonics
O /k/ spelled ch
school ache chorus
What sound do the letters ch stand for in each
word?
Write a word that uses the following letters to
stand for the /k/ sound.
k
ck
c
ch
Word Work:
Suffixes
O Suffixes are endings that can change the
meanings of base words.
O Carefully= in a way that is careful
O Hopeful= full of hope
O Collection= the result of collecting
Word Work
 High frequency words:
Break, father, friendless, mother,
mountain, once, river, song, whose
Fluency:
Practice Companion page 196
The Library Book
Prepare to Read:
Author’s Purpose
O Authors write to inform, persuade, entertain, and
express ideas
Which book did the author write to inform?
Which book did the author write to entertain?
How did each author address the focus question?
What questions would you like to ask the authors?
Revise the Model
O How students revise:
 Delete words or details that don’t belong
 Substitute more interesting words for
overused words
 Rearrange sentences so ideas flow more
smoothly
Edit the Model
O Writing Models Chart page 55
On the fourth of july, our town puts on a fireworks show
in our town. The show start when the sky gets dark,
Shiny sparkles fall like rane and disappear. A shell
shoots up fast and bursts too a bright, flowing light.
• Do any sentences need to be switched?
• Does the paragraph give enough details?
• Are there spelling, punctuation, or capitalization
mistakes?
• Are there grammar errors?
Edit
O On the fourth of july, our town puts on a
fireworks show in our town. The show start
when the sky gets dark, Shiny sparkles fall
like rane and disappear. A shell shoots up
fast and bursts too a bright, flowing light.
Seat Work
O Practice: 199, 202-203, 206
O Phonics: none
O Fluency: 196
O Spelling: Write each word three times
O Writing: Rough draft descriptive paragraph
O Study Station: 4 column chart