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4 th Grade Theme 2

4 th Grade Theme 2. Week 8 Day 1. Discussion. Do you think authors write nonfiction for the same reasons they fiction stories? Why or Why not?. Expository Nonfiction. Gives facts about a topic Is usually organized by main ideas and details.

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4 th Grade Theme 2

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  1. 4th Grade Theme 2 Week 8 Day 1

  2. Discussion • Do you think authors write nonfiction for the same reasons they fiction stories? Why or Why not?

  3. Expository Nonfiction • Gives facts about a topic • Is usually organized by main ideas and details. Listen to Inside a Computer to learn when the first electronic computer was developed.

  4. Author’s Purpose • Authors write to: • Entertain • Inform • Persuade • Teach a Lesson Many authors have more than one purpose for writing.

  5. How the author feels about the subject he or she is writing about. Author’s Perspective

  6. Practice Author’s Purpose • Turn to page 213 • Read the story and look at the organizer. • What was the author’s purpose? • What was the author’s perspective? • What details in the text gave you the clues to this information?

  7. Practice with a partner • Reading practice book page 44 • Read the story with you partner. • Work on the graphic organizer together

  8. Let’s review…

  9. Summarize • When you read pause from time to time to summarize. • When you summarize you are retelling the MOST important events or ideas. • It does not include every idea. • Summarizing while you read can help you better understand and remember what you read.

  10. slick • If something is slick, it is presented in an attractive way. • Which would you find slick-a robot that does homework or a new kind of pizza? Why?

  11. nimble • If someone is nimble, he or she moves quickly, lightly, and easily. • Which job would require you to be nimble- a ballet dancer or a computer programmer? Why?

  12. Impressed • To be impressed with someone means to admire that person. • How impressed would you be if your best friend won a race against someone in 8th grade?

  13. cease • If you cease to do something you stop doing it. • What would you prefer to cease-loud music early in the morning or your favorite television show? Why?

  14. exist • When something exists, it is a real thing that is present in the world. • What animals do you know of that once lived on Earth but do not exist anymore?

  15. fierce • A fierce person or animal is angry, violent, or ready to attack. • Which animal would you call fierce-a lion or a small snail? Why?

  16. Word Attack: VCCV patterns • basket (bas) (ket) Each consonant has its own sound • Bother the consonants th say together and make one sound. vccv

  17. Consonants-1 sound or 2? • Customer • Computer • Bushel • Walnut • Mistakes • Signal • gopher

  18. history number hunger company window welcome blanket perhaps service Subject thunder furnish jersey mother secret harvest winter problem chapter nurses Spelling words with VCCV • terminals • costumes • curtail • version • tonsils

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