Mrs. Hutchison

Unit 4 Week 4

Spelling

  1. deer

  2. cheers

  3. steer

  4. here

  5. jeer

  6. near

  7. ear

  8. dear

  9. clear

  10. spear

Vocabulary

  1. active-lively and ready to work as expected

  2. earth-the ground or land we walk on

  3. explode-to burst loudly with a lot of force

  4. island-land that has water all around it

  5. local-something that is nearby

  6. properties-the different ways something looks and acts

  7. solid-something that is firm and hard and keeps shape

  8. steep-something that has a very sharp slope

Genre: Expository Text

  • includes facts about real events

  • incudes text features such as subheads and bold point

Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect

  • A cause is an event or an action that makes something happen

  • an effect is what happens because of that event

Vocabulary strategy: Context Clues

  • Context clues re other words and sentences that are near the word you are trying to understand

  • These clues can help you figure out the meaning of the unknown words

Essential Question:

How does the earth change.