Name ______
Reading Wonders - Unit 3 Week 1
Vocabulary*If he blurted the answer, he said it suddenly.
*The baker’s story contradicted, or disagreed, with the butcher’s story.
*When you understand the value of something, you have an appreciation for it.
*Congratulate means to give praise or good wishes for something that has happened.
*When you research your family’s cultural past, you learn about your family customs, beliefs, and traditions.
*When friends have a misunderstanding, they fail to understand one another.
*A person who is critical will find fault or have an opinion that something is wrong.
*When you say something nice about someone, you are complimenting that person.
/ Weekly Skills
Vocabulary – Context Clues
· When you don’t know the meaning of a word, you can look for cause and effect relationships between words as clues to the word’s meaning.
Strategy – Summarize
· When you summarize a story, you tell the important events and details in your own words. This helps you remember what you have read.
Skill – Theme
· The theme of a story is the overall idea or message about life that the author wants the reader to know. The theme is not stated, but you can find it by thinking about what characters say and do, and what happens to them.
Genre – Realistic Fiction
· Tells about characters and events that resemble people and events in real life, happens in a setting that is real or seems real, includes dialogue and descriptive details
Writing – Voice
· Writers use formal language, or formal voice, when their audience is a person of authority and respect, such as a teacher. Writers use informal voice when their audience is someone they know well. Informal voice may include contractions, slang, and everyday vocabulary.
Grammar – Action Verbs
· A verb shows what the subject does or is. An action verb expresses action.
EQ: What can learning about different cultures teach us?
Name ______
Spelling – Open Syllables
1. minus ______
2. loser ______
3. humor ______
4. closet ______
5. recent ______
6. student ______
7. equal ______
8. profile ______
9. local ______
10. comet ______
11. vacant ______
12. punish ______
13. cavern ______
14. shiver ______
15. decent ______
16. linen ______
17. legal ______
18. panic ______
19. smoky ______
20. tyrant ______