Language Arts​

Literacy Focus

Week 6-4 Weekly Concept: Money Matters
Essential Question: What has been the role of money over time?

Grammar Focus: Prepositions:
A preposition convey location, time, and direction.

Reading Comprehension Focus:
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
The main idea is the most important idea or point that an author makes in a paragraph or section of text. Key details give important information to support the main idea.
 
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Asking questions about the text and reading to find the answer can help you understand new information.

Vocabulary Strategy: Proverbs and adages are short sayings that express a general truth or observation.
 
Example:
          A penny saved is a penny earned.
​Vocabulary Words:
  1. currency- the money used in a country
  2. economics- the science that studies the way people use resources to produce goods and services
  3. entrepreneur- a person who starts and runs a business
  4. global- worldwide, widespread
  5. invest- to use money to buy something that will make more money
  6. marketplace-a place where food and other products are bought and sold
  7. merchandise- the goods that are for sale
  8. transaction- the act of carrying out a business exchange
Resources 

Writing Practice
Imagine Learning
​Too much hw video

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 eBooks
​    un: ebooks; pw: saltlake
Keyboarding Skills
​Newsela
​Tween Tribune
Pioneer Library
​Wonderopolis
Writing Resources
Quizlet
​QuizStar