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Good Morning! September 5, 2012. Write down your homework and sharpen your pencils . Pull out your article on “Dyslexia” In your interactive journals turn to the very last page in your journal and write the following notes on the left side.
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Good Morning!September 5, 2012 • Write down your homework and sharpen your pencils. • Pull out your article on “Dyslexia” • In your interactive journals turn to the very last page in your journal and write the following notes on the left side. • A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Nouns name both living and nonliving things.
Try These: List the nouns in each of the following sentences. • Meets include many different events. • Edward runs the hurdles. • First, the runners wait for the signal to start. • They place their feet in starting blocks.
Good Morning!September 20, 2011 • Write down your homework and sharpen your pencil. • Grab your composition notebooks. List the nouns in the following sentences: • 1. A loud bang signals the start of the race. • 2. All runners race toward the finish line. • 3. Ten barriers stand along the track. • 4. Runners jump high over the hurdles. • 5. Hurdles are more complicated than the sports.
Compound Nouns Write the following notes in your composition notebooks: • A compound noun is one noun made by joining two or more words.
Compound NounsWrite the compound noun in each of the following sentences. • My sister-in-law wrote a short story about jogging. • I hope to follow in her footsteps as a roadrunner. • Her backpack holds a wristwatch and her running shoes. • Her mailbox is always full of running newsletters. • The doorbell rings when fellow runners stop by.
Good MorningSeptember 21, 2011 Vocabulary “Can Do” and “Must Do” due on Friday!!! • Sharpen your pencil and write down your homework. • Pull out your homework from last night. • Grab your composition notebook and write the following notes: • A common noun names any one of a group of people, places, or things. • A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually CAPITALIZED.
Noun Dunk http://www.gameclassroom.com/game/32738-3218/singular-and-plural-nouns/noun-dunk
Good MorningSeptember 22, 2011 • Write down your homework and sharpen pencils. • Grab your composition notebooks: • Write the following: • A pronoun takes the place of a noun. The noun that is replaced by a pronoun is called the antecedent. Ex. Marie said she would watch the news program. Florida is popular because it has a warm climate. Ante. P P Ante.
Identify the pronouns in each of the following sentences, then write the antecedent. • The editor read the article and corrected it. • The event interested the reporter, so she wrote an article about it. • The article was about the mayor and included a recent photo of him. • The delivery boys had bikes they could use for their paper routes. • I have a subscription to the newspaper, I read my copy every morning as soon as it arrives.