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Theme 6: Discoveries Weekly Theme: Inventors Then and Now Selection 4: Title: African American Inventors Author: Jim Haskins . Genre: Biography – a story about a person’s life written by another person Comprehension Strategy: Reread Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast. Phonics:
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Theme 6: DiscoveriesWeekly Theme: Inventors Then and NowSelection 4:Title: African American InventorsAuthor: Jim Haskins
Genre: Biography – a story about a person’s life written by another person Comprehension Strategy: Reread Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast
Phonics: r-controlled vowels /or/ Spelling Focus: Words with or, ore, oar more tore wore store oar roar board port north fort HF Words: building, machine, scientist
Key Vocabulary: invented–made something new design – a plan for how something should be made products– things made by people or machines instrument – a tool or machine used for a special purpose powerful– mighty; very strong allowed – let something happen; made something able to happen
Vocabulary Skills: Suffixes **A suffix is a word added to the end of a base word.**
Grammar Skills: Adverbs An adverb tells more about a verb in a sentence. An adverb can tell “how” an action happens. Adverbs often end in -ly. Before airplanes, people traveledslowly from place to place.