Theme 5: Family Time
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Transcript of Theme 5: Family Time
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Theme 5: Family Time (Focus on Biography)
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Selection 1: Title: Brothers and Sisters
Author: Ellen B. Senisi
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Genre: Nonfiction factual writing about real things, people and events
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Comprehension Strategy: Evaluate to decide if what we are reading is entertaining, informative, or useful for us.
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Comprehension Skill: Making Generalizations A generalizationis a statement about a group that is true for most of the group most of the time.
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Comprehension Skill Review: Information & Study Skills: Timelines 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
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Phonics review: Vowel Pairs oa, ow boat cold road blow gold old load snow hold most toe* do*
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Spelling Focus: Two SyllableWords That End With -er Basic: flower water under over better sister brother mother father after Review: Challenge: that other shop center
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Key Vocabulary: newborn- just born; only a few days or weeks old distract- to draw a persons attention away from something twins- two children born at the same time to the same parents
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newborn
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distract
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twins
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Other Vocabulary: pest- someone who is a bother or causes trouble teenage- between the ages of twelve and twenty
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pest
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teenage
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Other Vocabulary:enemies- people who do not like each other; not friends great-aunt- your grandmother or grandfathers sister
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enemies
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great-aunt
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Vocabulary Skills: Word Families talktalkingtalkedtalker
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High-Frequency Words:
middle trouble uncle
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High-Frequency Review: brother clothes friend guess listen thought young
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Grammar Skills: VerbsA verb can name an action. Examples are:run, talk, smile, and drink.A verb can name an activity that cannot beseen. Examples are: hear, think, and worry
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Writing: An Opinion Paragraph Voice Writers feelings, believes and opinion about a subject.
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I Reading Books: 47 Phonics Library: My Sister Joan The Big Party Plan by Becky Ward