• gives facts and information to explain a topic

• may be about science topics

• text features: maps, photographs, captions

How do animals adapt to challenges in their habitat?

• Sentence clues are words or phrases in a sentence that help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

• Look for phrases between commas that are near the unknown word.

• Sentence clues may define, or tell exactly, what a word means

There will be a vocab test on March 6th. The words are attached. Please study them each night. The test will be a multiple choice test. It is important that they be able to read the words and definitions.

It will be multiple choice.

• achievement- something that you accomplish

• apologized- said you were sorry

• attention- to watch, listen, or concentrate on something

• audience- group of people gathered to hear or see something

• confidence- trust or faith in something or someone

• embarrassed- to feel shy, uncomfortable, or ashamed

• realized- understood something completely

• talents- natural abilities or skills

• taught

• hauls

• caused

• salt

• halt

• halls

• small

• ball

• lawn

• raw

• crawl

• draw

• walk

• water

• bought

• taught

• hauls

• squawk

• paused

• fault

• salt

• stalk

• halted

• smallness

• crawl

• flawless

• scrawny

• walrus

• thoughtless

• sought