Spring According to Humphrey >>> 5.3 Overview

"Spring According to Humphrey" Concepts for pages 56-84 of the novel.

Sequence of Events

What time order words can you use that can help you sequence the order of events in a story?

Monitor & Clarify

How do good readers monitor and clarify?

Vowel Patterns for /o/

How does knowing word family patterns (chunks) help me spell related words?

Adverbs

What are adverbs and how do we use them? How do adverbs make our writing more interesting?

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5.3 Humphrey

5.3 Vocabulary

progress - moving toward a goal or development

anxious - to be worried, concerned, or nervous

cozy - snugly warm and comfortable

trapeze - a short horizontal bar suspended by two parallel ropes that acrobats can fly or swing from, usually at a circus

negative - to be harmful, unpleasant, or not positive

leapfrog - a children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs

gills - organs that allow fish to breathe underwater

5.3 Spelling

VOWEL PATTERNS FOR /O/

because though taught laundry

bought touch would distraught

author could enough afterthought

sausage fought should auditorium

faucet daughter brought overwrought


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