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1. Unit 2: Investigations Weekly Theme: Out In SpaceSelection 4:Title: The Planets in Our Solar SystemAuthor: Franklyn M. Branley
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
telescope a tool that makes faraway objects look closer
probably likely to happen or be true
5. 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.
6. 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.