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Genre:Realistic Fiction
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1. Unit 3: Discoveries Weekly Theme: Making JourneysSelection 4:Title: The Jones Family ExpressAuthor: Javaka Steptoe
2. Genre:
Realistic Fiction– an invented story that could have happened in real life
Comprehension Strategy:
Visualize
Comprehension Skill:
Plot Development
3. Phonics:
decode words with /ü/, /u/, and /u/
Spelling Focus:
words with -oo, -u_e, -ue, -oe, -ew
loop, rude, look, clue, spoon, tube, shook,
blue, cubes, goose, mules, gloom, true,
shoe, stew*
Review Words: firm, turns, learn
Challenge Words: classroom, childhood
4. Key Vocabulary:
annual – happening once a year
potential – the possibility to become real or to become greater
expensive – costing a lot of money
politely – in a way that shows good manners
package – something put in a box or wrapped in paper
innocent – harmless; not guilty
aisles – areas between rows of shelves at a store or seats
5. Vocabulary Skills:
Homophones
** Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings
To figure out the meaning that fits in a sentence, look up the word in a dictionary and choose the meaning that makes sense in context.
6. Word Work:
Grammar Skills:
Future-Tense Verbs
A future-tense verb tells what will happen in the future.
Use the special verb will to write about the future.
Examples:
Present: It rains.
Past: It rained.
Future: It will rain.