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Unit 2 Week 5
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The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters
Unit 2 Week 5
Vocabulary
Turn to page 164 in your textbook for this week's vocabulary.
Let's think about our vocabulary.
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
Turn to pg. 162 in your textbook.
- bounce - to spring back after hitting something
- inventor - a person who creates something for the first time
- observer - someone who watches something
- alliteration - occurs when several words or syllables in a row start with the same sound
- free verse - a poem with some verses that rhyme and some do not
- limerick - a funny poem of five lines with a specific rhyme pattern
- rhyme - words that end with the same sound
Grammar
Albert Einstein
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How do people figure things out?
Possessive Nouns
- Inventor - a person who is first to create or think of something
- Imagine - picture in their minds, solutions to problems
PARTNER TALK
Kids to the rescue!
This week we are learning about posessive nouns. A posessive noun is a noun that shows who or what owns or has something.
We add an apostrophe (') and the letter s to make a singular noun possessive.
- When have you had to figure out a solution to a problem?
- What did you do to solve it? What tools did you use to solve it?
https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/word/possessivenouns/?
Steve Jobs
Alexander Bell
Turn to page 150 in your textbook for our story "Kids to the Rescue!".
Comprehension Skill
Remember our essential question this week is "How can people help animals survive?"
Author's Point of View
Genre
Poetry
Limerick
Turn in your textbook to page 171 for this week's comprehension strategy - point of view.
A limerick is a funny poem that rhymes. Each stanza of a limerick has five lines. Within each stanza, the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme. Also, the third and fourth lines rhyme.
Turn to page 170 in your textbook for this week's genre - poetry.
A poem is a piece of writing that uses elements of songs like rhythm.
Phonics
Free Verse
Open Syllables
Free verse does not always rhyme. Free verse can hav any number of lines and stanzas. Free verse poetry may have irregular lines.
A poem often shows a narrator's thoughts about events or characters.
- What does the narrator think?
- What is the narrator's opinion? (feel)
Vocabulary Strategy
Literary Elements
Similes
Turn to page 172 in your textbook for this week's literary elements.
Turn to page 173 in your textbook for this week's vocabulary strategy - similes.
A simile compares two things that are very different. Similes always have the word like or as.
Rhyme
Alliteration
Phonics
- Words rhyme when their endings sound the same.
- Many poets use rhyme to make their poem sound musical.
Digraphs
- Alliteration is used to make descriptions in a poem vivid and fun to read.
- Many poets use repetition to express their ideas in interesting ways. It can also add to the emotional impact of a poem.
This week our phonics skill is working with digraphs. Digraphs are when two letters make one sound. Common digraphs include:
- fish
- phone
- think
- chick
- wheel
- know
- wreck
- sh
- ph
- th
- ch
- wh
- kn
- wr
- ck