Deciding Resource Values: A Study

1. Author: Sarah Angliss Genre: Expository Nonfiction Big Question: How do we decide the value of different resources?

2. Small GroupTimer

3. Review Games • Story Sort VocabularyWords: • Arcade Games • Study Stack • Spelling City: Vocabulary • Spelling City: Spelling Words

4. SpellingWordsSuffixes –ism, -age, -ure

6. Big Question: How do we decide the value of different resources?MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday

7. Vocabulary Words More Words to Know Vocabulary Words • characteristic • corrode • engulfed • exploit • extract • hoard • rivet • solvents • log cabin • lumber • miners • prospect

8. Monday

9. Today we will learn about: • Build Concepts • Main Idea • Text Structure • Build Background • Vocabulary • Fluency: Phrasing • Grammar: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • Spelling: Suffixes –ism, -age, -ure • Resources

10. FluencyPhrasing

11. Fluency: Phrasing • Listen as I read “Children of the Gold Rush.” • As I read, notice how I emphasize the chunking of groups of words together into meaningful units. • Be ready to answer questions after I finish.

12. Fluency: Phrasing • Why do the Andersons move to the Klondike? • How did the narrator’s experiences during the gold rush affect the rest of her life?

13. Concept Vocabulary • log cabin – a small roughly-built house made of logs • lumber – timber that has been roughly cut into boards and prepared for use • miners – people who work in a mine • prospect – to explore a region for oil, gold, or other minerals • (Next Slide)

14. log cabin

15. lumber

16. miners

17. prospect

18. ConceptVocabulary (To add information to the graphic organizer, click on end show, type in your new informion, and save your changes.)

19. Build Concept Vocabulary log cabin, lumber, miners, prospect Resources

20. Main Idea and Details, Text StructureTurn to Page 600 - 601.

21. Prior KnowledgeWhat are the properties and uses or gold and where is it found? Gold

22. Prior Knowledge • This week’s audio explores gold prospecting. After you listen, we will discuss what surprised you the most about people who still prospect for gold today.

23. VocabularyWords

24. Vocabulary Words • characteristic– distinguishing one person or thing from others; special • corrode– to wear or eat away gradually • engulfed – swallowed up; overwhelmed

25. Vocabulary Words • exploit– to make use of • extract– to pull or draw out • hoard – what is saved and stored away

26. More Words to Know • rivet– a metal bolt with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into another head after insertion • solvents– substances, usually liquids, that can dissolve other substances • (Next slide)

27. corrode

28. engulfed

29. hoard

30. rivet

31. solvents

32. Grammar Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

33. at increased tempuratures, gold can be stretched in to fine wire • At increased temperatures, gold can be stretched into fine wire. • golds atoms bond together loose • Gold’s atoms bond together loosely.

34. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • Gold is 19.3 times denser than water. • Denser is a comparative adjective. It is used to compare two things, gold and water.

35. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • Comparative adjectives are used to compare two people, places, things, or groups. • Add –erto most short adjectives to make their comparative forms. • Use more with longer adjectives.

36. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • Superlative adjectives are used to compare three or more people, places, things, or groups. • Add –estto most short adjectives to make their superlative forms. • Use most with longer adjectives.

37. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

38. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • Never use more or most with –eror –est. • No: most longer, most amazingest • Yes: longer, most amazing

39. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • When adding –eror –estto an adjective that ends in e, drop the e: large, larger, largest. • If the adjective ends in y, change the y to i: merry, merrier, merriest.

40. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • If the adjective ends in a single consonant, double the consonant: hot, hotter, hottest

41. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • Some adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms: good, better, best; bad, worse, worst; much, more, most; little, less, least

42. Comparative & Superlative AdjectivesWrite the comparative and superlative forms of each adjective.

43. Comparative and Superlative AdjectivesChoose the correct form of each adjective. • My ring is (more beautiful, beautifuller) than my sister’s ring. • more beautiful • There is (more, most) brass than gold in this goblet. • more

44. Comparative and Superlative AdjectivesChoose the correct form of each adjective. • Terri put her charm bracelet in the (most safe, safest) place she could find. • safest

45. Comparative and Superlative AdjectivesChoose the correct form of each adjective. • I tightened the clasp to make the necklace (securer, more secure) than before. • more secure

46. SpellingWordsSuffixes –ism, -age, -ure

48. Tuesday

49. Today we will learn about: • Context Clues • Main Idea • Cause and Effect • Vocabulary • Fluency: Echo Reading • Grammar: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives • Spelling: Suffixes –ism, -age, -ure • Social Studies: Gold as World Currency • Resources

50. Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues Turn to Page 602 - 603.