Mrs. Hutchison

Unit 6 Week 5

Spelling

  1. jumper

  2. higher

  3. star

  4. starry

  5. garden

  6. better

  7. dinner

  8. doctor

  9. market

  10. hairy

Vocabulary

  1. create-something that is made or invented

  2. dazzling-something that is very bright

  3. imagination-visualizing ideas in the mind

  4. seconds-units for measuring time, 1/60th of a minute

  5. beats-the syllables that make rhythm in a line of poetry

  6. message-an idea that a poet wants to share with the reader

  7. metaphor-compares two unlike things but does not use the words "like" or "as"

  8. repeated lines- including the same line at least twice in a poem

Genre: Poetry

  • has words with the same sound at the end of some lines

  • has regular, repeating rhythm

  • tells poet's thoughts or feelings

Comprehension Skill: point of view

  • The way the speaker in a poem feels about something in his or her point of view.

  • To understand the speaker's point of view, think about what the speaker is describing and how he or she describes it.

Vocabulary strategy: Metaphors

  • A metaphor compares two different things

  • It does not use the words like or as

  • Example: "A box of crayons is the sun on a dreary, rainy day."

Essential Question:

Where can your imagination take you?