DOL level 4 week 4

• Analogy

1. blacksmith : iron - _________: wood

2. animal : plant – wool : ______

1. did you leave champ, your dog, eat2. yesterday bernice and me break that window

carpenter

cotton

Pledge

Fluency

6 min. reading solution

Word Structure

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

Line 4

silvery furry shiny sunny

powerful plentiful pitiless bottomless

wearily angrily probably invariable

conclusion erosion promotion pollution

Word StructureSkills Practice 1 pages 25 - 26

Line 4 conclusion erosion promotion pollution

•These words have the suffix –sion or -tion.

•Adding the suffix –sion or –tion changes the spelling of the root word.

•Think of other words to which you can add the suffix –sion or –tion.

conclude erode promote pollute

Fluency

6 min. reading solution

Developing Oral Language

• Form small groups• Brainstorm a list of words with the suffix -ful

or -less.• Create a short definition of each word.• Each group read the definition of one of the

words and challenge the other groups to identify the word.

Vocabulary lesson 3

obviously (ob’vē slē) recalled (rikäld’)

in a way that is easy to see to remember

merriment (mârim nt)

fun

tangled (tang’g ld)

to get caught in something that holds back or blocks

This obviously would not be easy. Nina recalled her gym teacher’s words from the day before.

The rest of their classmates cheered in merriment.

e

The fly became tangled in the spider web.

e

e

Vocabulary lesson 3

gnawing (nôing) miserable (miz’ûrb l)

to chew unhappy

cover (ku’vûr)

something that would be good to hide behind

circumstances (sûrk mstants’ z)

the way things are at the moment

My dog is gnawing on his bone. “I’m tired and miserable”.

She put her hand above her eyes to cover the glare.

e

Under the circumstances, they made a great team.

ee

Supporting the Reading

• Writers show the connection between events by organizing information into cause-and-effect relationships.

• A cause is a force or influence that produces an effect. It is why something happens.

• An effect is what happens as a consequence of the cause. For example, Mrs. Frisby is away from her home because her son timothy is sick and she needs to get him medicine. Timothy’s illness is the cause. the effect is that Mrs. Frisby risks her life to get the medicine and bring it back to him.

• Sometimes writers alert the reader that they are describing a cause-and-effect relationship. They do this by using signal words such as because, for, since, therefore, so, consequently, reason for, due to, and as a result.

Guided PracticeFind examples of cause-and-effect relationships in “Mrs. Frisby and the Crow.” Write your conclusions in the

appropriate spaces.

Cause

Skills Practice 1 page 29

Effect

Link to WritingWrite five causes on a sheet of paper, such as “Because I left the front door open” or

“The bus did not come on time today , so….” then exchange papers and write an effect for each cause.

Cause effect

Inquiry Process

Conjecture• Discussion• What sources should and will you use to

prove, disprove, or modify your conjectures?• Concept/ Question Board.

Inquiry Process

Conjecture• What resources will you need to prove your

conjecture right or wrong or to modify them.

• Some sources might be biographies of risk takers, articles about athletes competing in an extreme sport, an interview with someone they know who has taken a risk.

Biography

• Because biographies are written in the order of events, it is important to use transition words in your paragraphs to show relationships, especially time relationships between ideas. Some common transition words include

• later, the next day, before next, and after.

Biography

• Be Careful• Guard against starting sentences the same way

because the story becomes boring for the reader.• Bad Example: “In 1848, she did this…,” “In 1855,

this happened,”• Good Example: “The ferry ride over…,” “After

talking with Mr. Johnson for a few minutes…” “Later on in the night…” “As soon as the rain reached the station….”

BiographyPitfalls to Avoid

• Sentences that show time and order are too similar in style. Vary sentence beginnings to solve this problem.

• The events of the subject’s life are not written in chronological order.

• The biography lacks detailed descriptions of the person and events.

• The facts of the subject’s life are inaccurate.

Biography

Create an interesting opening paragraph through the use of quotations, questions, or descriptions.

Skills Practice 1 page 33

Grammar, Usage, and MechanicsPlural and Irregular Nouns

Tell me the word for “more than one” with the following words.

chickenmousehorsegoose

chickens

mice

horses

geese

Grammar, Usage, and MechanicsPlural and Irregular Nouns

Plural noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

For most nouns add –s to make them plural.For nouns ending in ch, s, sh, x, or z. add –es.Some words have irregular plural forms. These nouns do

not follow any rules. Write a couple of sentences using plural and irregular

nouns and exchange the sentences with a partner to identify the nouns.

Volunteers may display their answers on the board.

Spellingangrily location promotion famous precision basically

memorable easily conclusion solvable erosion attention

decision usable courteous envious gracious luckily

flammable pollution wondrous miserable terrifically

change the y to an i when y is preceded by a consonant or when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel. drop the silent e at the end of root word when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel: and -tion and -sion are used to make the noun forms of verbs –tion is used if the verb end in t(e) and –sion is used if the verb ends in s(e) or d(e) A few words require special changes, such as adding –ally to an adjective that ends in c.

Rotations

Read with teacher

Work in Skills Practice Book Pages 27, 35, 25, 28

Biography: Who will you write about?

Practice cursive handwriting . The letter J j

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