Why are sports important in our country? Click to listen to the story.

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3. Review Games Vocabulary & Amazing Words: • Arcade Games • Jigword • Matchword • Speedword • Wordsearch • Word Web • Spelling City: Amazing • Spelling City: Vocabulary Spelling Words: • Speedword • Word Web • Quia Games • Spelling City High Frequency Words • Spelling City

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8. Big Question:Why are sports important in our country? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

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12. Today we will learn about: • Amazing Words • Contractions • Compare & Contrast • Visualize • Using Capital Letters

14. athlete • ath - lete • An athlete is somebody who uses skills and abilities to compete in sports. • The basketball players were skilled athletes. • The fastest athletes competed in the race.

15. challenge • chal - lenge • A challenge is a test of someone’s abilities. You can also challenge someone by daring him or her to do something. • Pitching a perfect game was her biggest challenge. • The other team will challenge us to a rematch if we win.

16. effort • ef - fort • Effort is the physical and mental energy you use to do something or to achieve a goal. • The men used a lot of effort to move the refrigerator onto the truck. • She put forth her best effort.

17. Listen to a song about being an athlete.

18. Contractions • didn’t • What do you know about reading this word? • Didn’t is a contraction of the words did and not. • An apostrophe takes the place of the letter o in not. • Today we’ll learn about contractions made from other words.

19. Contractions • we’re • This word is a contraction, a short way of saying and writing two words. • An apostrophe takes the place of letters that are left out. • You can read this word because you know the two words that make this contraction.

20. Contractions • we’re – we are • The apostrophe in we’re takes the place of the letter a in are. • To read contractions, first read the word before the apostrophe and then blend it with what comes after the apostrophe.

21. Contractions • I’ve • don’t • can’t • he’d ( ’d can mean had or would) • you’re • she’d ( ’d can mean had or would) • won’t • they’re • I’d • they’d • we’ve • could’ve

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34. Contractions • he’d • I’ll • shouldn’t • don’t • can’t • they’ve • they’re • I’d • where’s • won’t • we’ll • there’s • we’ve • she’s • what’ll

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36. Compare and ContrastVisualize • Recall Horace and Morris but mostly Dolores. • Let’s compare the boys’ club and the girls’ club. • How would the story have been different if the boys had not decided to make their own club?

37. Compare and ContrastVisualize • Good readers compare and contrast what they read with what they already know. • Sometimes there are helpful clue words that help us compare and contrast, such as like, however, and but. Sometimes there aren’t any clue words. • Good readers picture, or visualize, what is happening in a story in their minds. Then we compare what we are reading with what we already know.

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39. Daily Fix-It i want to be an atlete I want to be an athlete. they’re watching ken play They’re watching Ken play.

40. Using Capital Letters • Sentences should always begin with a capital letter. • Days of the week, months of the year, and holidays begin with capital letters. • The first day of January is New Year’s Day. • Titles for people begin with capital letters. • Every year Mr. Lewis has a big party.

41. Using Capital Letters • The last monday in may is memorial day. • The last Monday in May is Memorial Day. • Every year coach Scalia and mrs. Kurtz march in the parade. • Every year Coach Scalia and Mrs. Kurtz march in the parade.

42. Using Capital Letters • This year the fourth of july is on a friday. • This year the Fourth of July is on a Friday. • We always go to the barbecue at mr. Garcia’s house. • We always go to the barbecue at Mr. Garcia’s house.

43. Using Capital Letters • What holiday is on the fourth thursday in november? • What holiday is on the fourth Thursday in November? • I saw dr. Martin and ms. Chang at the thanksgiving party. • I saw Dr. Martin and Ms. Chang at the Thanksgiving party.

44. Wrap Up Your Day! • Contractions ’re, ’ve, ’d, don’t and won’t. • Compare and Contrast • Let’s Talk About It • Tomorrow we will read about a girl that liked to play baseball.

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48. Today we will learn about: • Contractions ’re, ’ve, ’d • Amazing Words • Vocabulary Words • Multiple-Meaning Words • Context Clues • Use Capital Letters

50. dainty • dain - ty • Dainty means delicate and pretty. • The dress had a dainty lace collar. • You could eat the dainty cookies in one bite.