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Discover the reasons behind why anyone would want to explore space in this intriguing story. Click to listen!
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Why would anyone want to explore space?Click to listen to story.
ascend • as - cend • When you ascend, you go up. • Astronauts ascend into space in their space shuttles. • You ascend to the second floor when you walk upstairs.
descend • de - scend • When you descend, you go down. • Astronauts descend when they come down from space in their space shuttles. • You descend when you walk downstairs.
orbit • or - bit • An orbit is the path of something like a spacecraft or planet around something in space, such as Earth or the sun. • Earth orbits the sun, and the moon orbits Earth. • We can watch TV because of the satellites that orbit the Earth.
Long Vowels CVCe • c ap • What vowel sound do you hear in the word cap? • c ape • What happened to the short a sound when an e was added to the end of cap? • Today we’ll learn about long vowel sounds.
Long Vowels CVCe • bake • When a word has a vowel followed by a consonant and e, the vowel usually has its long sound and the e is silent. • This word has the long a sound. • We can blend the word by saying the sound for each letter: /b/ /a/ /k/, bake
Long Vowels CVCe Read these words: • l ike • p oke • f use • t ame • p ile • h ose • pl ume
Long Vowels CVCe • What do you know about reading these words? • A vowel that is followed by a consonant and e usually says its name and the e is silent.
Long Vowels CVCe • lace • nose • wage • rice • cube • make
those came lack stage wage home ice chose game check place rose ripe Long Vowels CVCe
Main Idea and Details • The topic is what a selection is about. The main idea is the most important idea about the topic. • Small pieces of information in a selection that tell more about the main idea are called details. • Good readers look for the main idea to help them understand what the whole story is about.
Grammar: Subjects The subject of a sentence tells who or what does something. • Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. • The moon goes around the Earth.
What is the subject of each sentence? • Tony wants to be a firefighter. • Tony wants to be a firefighter. • Firefighters put out fires. • Firefighters put out fires.
Subjects • The girl will be an astronaut. • The girl will be an astronaut. • Astronauts study space. • Astronauts study space. • She dreams about spaceships. • She dreams about spaceships.
Subjects • My father is a zoologist. • My father is a zoologist. • Zoologists study animals. • Zoologists study animals. • My uncle explores the rain forest. • My uncle explores the rain forest.
universe • u -ni -verse • The universe is made up of Earth, the sun, the moon, and all the other planets and stars in the sky. • Our world is a small part of the universe. • When we look at the stars, we think how huge our universe must be.
enormous • e – nor - mous • Something that is enormous is very big and huge. • Dr. Street saw enormous clouds in the sky. • An enormous building is so big you can’t see it all at the same time.
journey • jour - ney • A journey is a long trip. • When a family drives for several days to go somewhere, they go on a journey. • An astronaut goes on a journey into space.
Long Vowels CVCe • twice • You can read this word because you know how to read words with long vowel sounds. • What sound does the letter i stand for in this word? • When you come to a new word, look at the letters from left to right and think about the vowel sounds. • Say the sounds to yourself and then read the word.
m ade c ode f use c age sl ice p ose tr ace f ace sp ice con f use m ute cl ose s age Long Vowels CVCeRead these words:
race space close hose spaceship rose place like age twice nice ice page Long Vowels CVCeListen to “Race into Space” and pick out the long vowel words.
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Sort these words: race, rose, ice, age, space, place, twice, nice, hose, close, page, spaceship
Spelling: Long Vowels CVCe • It was late when we got home. • It was late when we got home. • Look at the size of the mice! • Look at the size of the mice! • I vote for the first time. • I vote for the first time.
Main Idea and Details • The topic is what a selection is about. The main idea is the most important idea about the topic. • Small pieces of information in a selection that tell more about the main idea are called details. • Good readers look for the main idea to help them understand what the whole story is about.
High Frequency Words • live • work • woman • machines • everywhere • world
everywhere about live other machines become move many work always woman use world into High-Frequency Word Check