Elisa's Diary
Elisa's Diary
Elisa's Diary
Realistic Fiction
Big Idea
- We never stop learning.
Essential Question
- How does a character learn an important lesson?
Target Vocabulary
- officially - authorized by the people who make the rules
- preliminary - something that comes before the final event
- opponents - people who compete against each other in a contest
- brutal - something that is overly rough
- embarrassed - feeling ashamed and uncomfortable
- typically - usually
- gorgeous - something that stands out in beauty and grace
- supposedly - thought to be true, or supposed to be true
- sweeping - movement that covers a wide space from side to side
- obvious - noticeable or easy to see
Comprehension
Target Skill
- Theme - the big idea or lesson the author wants the reader to know.
Target Strategy
- Visualize - to use text details to form pictures in your mind.
Fluency
- Stress - good readers stress, or emphasize, certain words as they read. Appropriate stress helps readers and listeners understand words and derive meaning from text.
Decoding
- Stressed and Unstressed Syllables - in words with more than one syllable, we stress, or emphasize, one syllable more than the others. The vowel sound in many unstressed syllables is called the schwa sound.
Vocabulary Strategies
- Suffixes -ly, -ful - "in a certain way" or "like," and "full of." A suffix is an affix attached to the end of a base word or word root that changes the meaning of the word.
Grammar
- Singular and Plural Nouns - names one person, place or thing, or names more than one person, place or thing. A collective noun names a group of people, animals or things that act as a unit.
Writing
Write to Express
- Focus Trait: Voice - When authors create characters, they give each one a voice, or a particular way the character sounds. A character's voice is often shown through dialogue.