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Unit 2: Investigations Weekly Theme: Out In Space Selection 4: Title: The Planets in Our Solar System Author: Franklyn M. Branley. Genre: Informational Nonfiction – a story that uses facts to explain about real people, things, places, situations, or events. Comprehension Strategy:
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Unit 2: Investigations Weekly Theme: Out In SpaceSelection 4:Title: The Planets in Our Solar SystemAuthor: Franklyn M. Branley
Genre: Informational Nonfiction– a story that uses facts to explain about real people, things, places, situations, or events. Comprehension Strategy: Generate Questions Comprehension Skill: Main Ideas and Details
Phonics: decode words with consonant blends Spelling Focus: thread, scrubs, spree, screams, stream, scratch, spread, throne, three, screens, spray, throw, strong, scraped, strength Review Words: thick, washing, whales Challenge Words: streamer, scribble
Key Vocabulary: solar system – the sun and all the planets, comets, and satellites that circle it easily – without trouble or hard work farther – at a greater distance than something else main – most important dim – having or giving little light; not bright temperature – measures of how hot or cold things are telescopea tool that makes faraway objects look closer probably likely to happen or be true
Vocabulary Skills: Context Clues ** Signal words that help readers figure out meanings of unknown words. Signal words such as it is, called, which are, and mean may come before a definition.
Word Work: Grammar Skills: Singular Possessive Nouns A possessive noun is a noun that shows who or what owns or has something. Add an apostrophe (‘) and the letter s to a singular noun to make it possessive. Example: Clayton’s telescope is huge.