Autobiography
Big Idea
Everyone has a story to tell.
Essential Question
What part do facts and opinions play in a story?
Target Vocabulary
career - profession; the work a person does to earn a living
publication - any print product, such as a magazine, book or newspaper
household - the people who live in a house
edition - version; specific issue
required - necessary, called for
formula - set of rules or steps
background - the details of a person's or thing's past
insights - understanding on an issue; point of view
uneventful - unimportant, insignificant
destruction - vast damage or devastation; ruin
Comprehension
Target Skill
Fact and Opinion - a statement that can be proven true or false and a statement that tells a thought, feeling or belief. Opinions cannot be proven true or false. Phrases like "I think" and "it seems" indicate an opinion.
Target Strategy
Analyze/Evaluate - analyzing a text to evaluate (form an opinion or judgment about something) the author's use of facts and opinions and asking questions about why certain information is included will help you better understand a selection.
Fluency
Phrasing: Punctuation - good readers pay attention to punctuation because it can help them group words into meaningful phrases. Punctuation marks help guide phrasing, including quotes, dashes and parentheses. Grouping words into appropriate phrases makes reading sound more natural and can impact the understanding of the text. With practice, you can improve your phrasing.
Decoding
Recognizing Suffixes - a suffix adds a syllable to the end of a word. Identifying the suffix first can help decode the whole word. When a word ends in a consonant and y, the final y is changed to i when -er or -est is added.
Vocabulary Strategies
Analogies - comparisons of two pairs of words that are related in the same way. To understand an analogy, look at the first pair of words and identify how they are related. Then apply that relationship to the second pair of words to confirm that they are related in the same way. Antonyms and synonyms are commonly used to create analogies. When an analogy use synonyms, it compares one pair of words that have similar meanings with another pair of words that have similar meanings with another pair that have similar meanings. When an analogy use antonyms, the words in each pair have opposite meanings.
Grammar
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases - a prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun. The noun or pronoun is the object of the preposition. Prepositional phrases add meaning and details to sentences.
Writing
Write to Narrate
Focus Trait: Voice - in good personal narratives, writer's create a voice that shows their personality. One way writers can sound like themselves is by sharing their inner thoughts and feelings.