Question of the day ??

How do scientists Learn what dinosaurs were like?

Listening Comprehension

Magazine ArticlesTell about current events andOften include dialogue from interviews with real people

As I read “A Dinosaur Lives, Virtually” listen carefully to learn about

new developments in the study of dinosaur fossils.

Dragons and Dinosaurs

• This week’s main story is titled, “Dragons and Dinosaurs”.

• In your notebook, sketch and label a picture of a dragon and then sketch and label a picture of a dinosaur. (you may look at pictures in your text book)

YOU HAVE ABOUT 10 MINUTES TO FINISH BOTH.

Pair and Share• Turn and share your drawings

with your partner. Discuss what is the same about your drawings and what is different.

• Remember to face your partner and look at your partner and at their drawings as they talk to you.

Nonfiction Texts• Nonfiction texts give facts. • In a nonfiction text, some facts

and ideas are more important that others.

• To understand nonfiction text, you need to identify the most important ideas, or the main ideas.

• A lot of times, the first sentence in a paragraph tells you the main idea for the whole paragraph.

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Summarizing What You Read

• When you read, pause periodically to summarize sections of text.

• Remember to look for the main ideas in each section of text.

Read paragraph 1 together:

Summary:

Read paragraph 2 together. Jot down the main points and then work with a partner to write a summary.

VocabularyWords

A contraption is a strange-looking

machine or device.

What might someone stare at

a contraption?

If a creature roamed an area,

it wandered around there.Which roamed the

earth in ancient times – trees or dinosaurs?

Something massive is very

large and heavy.What is one

massive animal that lives in the

ocean?

If something is submerged, it is

beneath the surface of a body of water.

What might you use to explore a

submerged object?

Something elegant is graceful and

pleasing to look at.Where would you find elegant furniture – in a fancy hotel or in a bus

station?

Obstacles are things that get in your way when you are going somewhere or trying to reach a goal.Why is it

dangerous to leave obstacles

on stairs?

Something that is complicated has many parts that are connected in ways to make it hard to understand.What is one

complicated device that some workers

use?

Something that is eerie is strange and makes people feel afraid.How would you feel

if you heard an eerie noise?

Spelling Words: • subtle• scene• climbed• comb• exhibit• doubt• folks• exhaust• half• whistle

•island•lamb•numb•often•rustle•debt•knack•thumb•unknown•mortgage

Challenge Words: handsome, rhyme, thorough, cheetah, cupboard

Silent bSubtle

ClimbedCombDoubtLambNumbDebt

Thumb

Silent cscene

Silent hexhibitExhaust

Silent kknackUnknown

Silent sisland

Silent twhistleOftenRustlemortgage

subtle doubt island debtscene folks lamb knackclimbed exhaust numb thumbcomb half often unknownexhibit whistle rustle mortgage

Challenge Words

• Handsome• Rhyme• Thorough• Cheetah• Cupboard