Language Arts​

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Literacy Focus

Unit 6-4 Weekly Concept: Making a Difference
Essential Question: What impact do our actions have on our world?
 
Genre: Biography

• Tells the true story of someone else’s life
• May be about someone from the past or who is living today
• Text features: illustrations and photographs with captions

 
Comprehension Skill: Problem and Solution

• Problem and solution texts focus on how the subject overcomes challenges and solves problems.
• In a problem and solution text structure, the author may describe problems encountered by the subject of the text and then explain any solutions that resulted.

 
 Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms and Antonyms

• Synonyms are words that have the same, or almost the same meaning. (example: regulations & rules)
• Antonyms are words that have the opposite, or nearly the opposite meaning. (example: reasonable & irrational)

 
 Vocabulary Words:

1. To export an item is to sell or trade it to another country.
2.  When something is glistening, it is shining.
3.  When you influence people, you try to change or affect their thoughts or behavior.
4.  A landscape is a region’s landforms or a stretch of land that can be seen from a place.
5.  Someone or something that is native to a place was born there, or originated from there.
6.  Plantations are large farms.
7.  To restore is to bring something back to its original form or condition.
8.  If you are urged to do your chores, you are strongly encouraged or persuaded to do them.

Resources 

Writing Practice

eTextbook
Wonders Reading Basal 
Wonders Login Instruction

Class Handouts
Grammar Handbook
Reading Log
Wonders Reader's Theater Scripts

Weblinks
​Book Recommendations
Dance Mat Typing
Dictionary
Dogonews
Follett Shelf
Keyboarding Skills
​Newsela
​Tween Tribune
Pioneer Library
​Wonderopolis
Writing Resources
Quizlet
​QuizStar