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Why are sports important in our country? Click to listen to the story. Small Group Timer. Review Games. Vocabulary & Amazing Words: Arcade Games Jigword Matchword Speedword Wordsearch Word Web Spelling City: Amazing Spelling City: Vocabulary. Spelling Words: Speedword Word Web
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Why are sports important in our country?Click to listen to the story.
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
Big Question:Why are sports important in our country? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday
Today we will learn about: • Amazing Words • Vocabulary Words • Contractions • Compare & Contrast • Visualize • Using Capital Letters
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.
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.
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.
dainty • dain - ty • Dainty means delicate and pretty. • The dress had a dainty lace collar. • You could eat the dainty cookies in one bite.
disguise • dis – guise • A disguise can be clothes or make-up someone wears to change the way he or she looks so he or she won’t be recognized. • When you change your appearance so you won’t be recognized, you disguise yourself. • The spy wore a disguise so she wouldn’t be recognized. • He wore a wig and a beard to disguise himself.
champion • cham – pi- on • A champion is the winner of a game or competition. • The champions had ten wins and no losses. • Our team practiced hard because we wanted to beat last year’s champions.
professional • pro – fes –sion - al • Professional describes a type of job in which people are paid for their skill and training. • My uncle is a professional basketball player. • I want to be a professional singer when I grow up.
shortstop • short - stop • Shortstopis the infield position on a baseball team between second and third base. • I would prefer playing shortstop rather than third base. • Our baseball team has the best shortstop in the league.
Vocabulary • field – a piece of land used for some special purpose • cheers – calls out or yells loudly to show that you like something • threw – sent something through the air by force of your arm • sailed – moved smoothly like a ship with sails (next slide)
Vocabulary • plate – a hard rubber slab that a baseball player stands beside to bat • bases – places that are stations or goals in certain games, such as baseball • soar – to fly upward • forties – the years between 1940 and 1949 • Louisville slugger– a popular kind of baseball bat
bases Second Base Third Base First Base Home Plate
High-Frequency Words • field • you’re • cheers • gone • threw • watch • sailed • guess • plate • early • bases • once
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
