Big Question: Why do nature’s record holders fascinate us?

1. Big Question: Why do nature’s record holders fascinate us? Title: Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest Author: Steve Jenkins Genre: Expository Nonfiction

2. Small Group Timer

3. third • early • world • certain • dirty • herself • earth • word • perfect • verb • nerve • worm • thirsty • workout • earn • determine • commercial • whirlwind • worthwhile • virtual Spelling Words

4. Vocabulary Words More Words to Know • average • depth • deserts • outrun • peak • tides • waterfalls • extreme • precipitation • temperature • plunge • streamlined • weightlifters Vocabulary Words

5. Big Question: Why do nature’s record holders fascinate us? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

6. Monday

7. Today we will learn about: • Build Concepts • Compare and Contrast • Ask Questions • Build Background • Vocabulary • Fluency: Model Reading Silently • Subject and Object Pronouns • Vowels with r • “Mosts” Concept Web

8. Monday Fluency: Model Reading Silently

9. Fluency: Model Reading Silently • Before I read silently, I look for a quiet place to read. Then I make myself comfortable. • It is important to block out distractions and correct yourself and check your comprehension as you read in order to better understand what you are reading.

10. Fluency: Model Reading Silently • Listen as I read “Animal Olympics.” • Be ready to answer questions after I finish. • How do human beings compare to the animals mentioned in the selection? • Which animal wins the prize for distance swimming?

11. Build Conceptsplunge, streamlined, weightlifters Mosts

12. Monday Compare and Contrast Turn to page 36-37

13. Build BackgroundThink of names of as many rivers as you can.

14. Vocabulary: Word Rating Chart

15. Vocabulary Words average – the quantity found by dividing the sum of all the quantities by the number of quantities depth – the distance from the top to the bottom

16. Vocabulary Words deserts – dry, sandy regions without water and trees outrun – to run faster than someone or something else peak – the pointed top of a mountain or hill

17. Vocabulary Words tides – the rise and fall of the ocean about every twelve hours waterfalls – streams of water that fall from a high place

18. Other Vocabulary Words extreme – much more than usual; very great precipitation – the water that falls to the earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail temperature – how hot or cold something is

19. Other Vocabulary Words plunge– to fall or move suddenly downward streamlined – shaped so as to cause the least possible resistance to motion through air or water

20. Other Vocabulary Words weightlifters– people who train their bodies to lift heavy weights Next slide

21. depth

22. desert

23. peak

24. tides

25. waterfall

26. precipitation

27. temperature

28. plunge

29. streamlined

30. weightlifters

31. Monday Grammar: Subject and Object Pronouns

32. some of the worste weather in the werld is in antarctica • Some of the worst weather in the world is in Antarctica. • the days is freezeing there even in Summer • The days are freezing there even in summer.

33. Subject and Object Pronouns • They studied the highest mountain in the world, and it amazed them. • The pronoun they is the subject of the sentence and is a subject pronoun. • The pronoun them follows the action verb amazed and is an object pronoun.

34. Subject and Object Pronouns • A pronoun used as the subject of a sentence is called a subject pronoun. I, you, he, she, it, we, and they are subject pronouns. • A pronoun used after an action verb or as the object of a preposition is called an object pronoun. Me, you, him, her, it, us, and them are object pronouns.

35. Subject and Object Pronouns • Subject Pronouns: She hiked in the desert. He and I stayed home. • Object Pronouns: The plants surprised her. She told him and me about them.

36. Subject and Object PronounsDecide if the underlined pronoun is a subject pronoun or an object pronoun. • Scientists work in Antarctica, and they stay there all winter. • subject pronoun • The long, cold winters do not discourage them. • object pronoun • My group and I studied the penguins in Antarctica. • subject pronoun

37. Subject and Object PronounsDecide if the underlined pronoun is a subject pronoun or an object pronoun. • A trip to Antarctica is a dream for us. • object pronoun • You should plan a trip too. • subject pronoun

38. Subject and Object PronounsChoose the correct pronoun for each sentence. • (We, Us) saw two active volcanoes in Hawaii. • We • My family walked on (they, them). • them • Michael and (me, I) saw a lava flow. • I

39. Subject and Object PronounsChoose the correct pronoun for each sentence. • The volcanoes thrilled Jenny and (me, I). • me • I took a picture of (she, her) on the volcano. • her

40. Monday Spelling: Vowels with r

41. third • early • world • certain • dirty • herself • earth • word • perfect • verb • nerve • worm • thirsty • workout • earn • determine • commercial • whirlwind • worthwhile • virtual Spelling Words

42. Tuesday

43. Today we will learn about: • R-Controlled Vowels • Compound Words • Compare and Contrast • Ask Questions • Vocabulary • Fluency: Silent Reading • Subject and Object Pronouns • Vowels with r • Science: Order by Particular Property • “Mosts” Concept Web

44. TueSday Compound Words Turn to pages 38 – 39.

45. Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest Turn to pages 40 – 47.

46. Tuesday Fluency: Silent Reading

47. Fluency: Model Reading Silently • Turn to page 45. • Notice how I block out outside distractions, and notice the accuracy at which I read. • Practice reading page 45 silently.

48. Tuesday Grammar: Subject and Object Pronouns

49. terry and me red about mount everest • Terry and I read about Mount Everest. • its the highest mountian on the erth • It’s the highest mountain on the earth.

50. Subject and Object Pronouns • A pronoun used as the subject of a sentence is called a subject pronoun. I, you, he, she, it, we, and they are subject pronouns. • A pronoun used after an action verb or as the object of a preposition is called an object pronoun. Me, you, him, her, it, us, and them are object pronouns.