RELIGION

Chapter 12

READING

Unit 4, Week 2

• *Realistic Fiction: Has made up characters, setting, & events that could be real; Has a beginning, middle, & end

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• *Visualize: When you visualize, you use the author’s words to form pictures in your mind. Pay close attention to words that tell about actions and words that describe sensory details such as how something looks or sounds.

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• *Setting: When and where a story takes place; Pay attention to words that tell about time and place

• *Compare & Contrast: Authors compare events in a story by showing how they are alike. Authors contrast  events in a story by showing how they are different. 

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• *Similes: A simile is an example of figurative language that uses the word like or as to compare two things; To understand a simile, identify the 2 things that are being compared and think about how they are alike. 

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• *Maps: Text features that show where places/things are located

SPELLING

Unit 4, Week 2

1. clerk 

2. herd 

3. first 

4. skirt

5. stir 

6. churn 

7. hurt 

8. burst 

9. work 

10. worse 

11. know 

12. wrist 

13. found 

14. from 

15. today

GRAMMAR

Unit 4, Week 2

Helping Verbs

• A helping verb helps the main verb show action. 

• The helping verbs have, has, had, was, & were help the main verb show action that happened in the past.

• Present-tense helping verbs are is, am, and are. 

•  Use the helping verbs was and were for the past tense. 

•  The helping verbs have, has, had, was, and were help the main verb show action that happened in the past.

•  The helping verbs am, is, and are help the main verb show action that happens in the present.

MATH

Telling Time

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE

Parts of a Plant