Mrs. Stauffer

1/23/2026-1/26/2026

Genre:Expository Text

  • Includes facts about real events

  • includes text features such as subheads and bold print

Essential question: How does the Earth change?

Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect

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

  • An effect is what happens because of that event.

Vocabulary Strategies: Context Clues

  • Context clues are 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 word.

High Frequency

  • again

  • behind

  • eyes

  • gone

  • happened

  • house

  • inside

  • neither

  • stood

  • young

Spelling

deer

dear

cheers

clear

steer

spear

here

jeer

near

ear

Vocabulary

active- lively and ready to work as expected

earth- the ground or land we walk on

explode-to burst loudly with a lot of force

island-land that has water all around it

local- something that is nearby

properties- the different ways something looks and acts

solid-something that is firm and hard and keeps its shape

steep-something that has a very sharp slope