Unit 4:Determination

Weekly Theme:A Place of My Own

Selection 5:Title: My Very Own RoomAuthor: Amada Irma Pérez

Genre:Realistic Fiction– an invented story that could have happened in real life.

Comprehension Strategy:I can monitor my own reading comprehension.

Comprehension Skill:Plot Development: I can make predictions as I read the story.

Spelling list Unit 4 Week 5 “My Very Own Room”

I can decode words that are plural.

Spelling Words

Plurals

years, twins, trays, states, ashes, foxes, inches, flies, cities, ponies, bunches, alleys, lunches, cherries, daisies

Review Words: sale, rode, you’re

Challenge Words: heroes, libraries

Key Vocabulary:separate – to set apart or keep apart

determination – a firm purpose

storage – a place for keeping things for future use

crate – a box made of pieces of wood

exact – very accurate

ruined – damaged greatly or destroyed

luckiest – having the most good luck

Vocabulary Skills: Word Parts: Endings –ER, -EST

**I can read words with endings change the meaning of the adjective they end.

The ending –er at the end of an adjective means more.

The ending –est at the end of an adjective means most.

Grammar Skills:I can read and write contractions with the word ‘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.