Unit 4, Weeks 3-4
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  How does the Earth change?
STORY: Volcanoes
  GENRE: Expository Text (real facts & information about a topic)
  COMPREHENSION SKILL: Author's Purpose; Cause & Effect; Bold Words & Headings
  VOCABULARY WORDS:

■     active – something that is moving

■     earth – the ground or land we walk on

■     explode– burst loudly with a lot of force

■     island – land with water all around it

■     local – something that is nearby

■     properties– the traits of something

■     solid – hard and firm

■     steep – having a very sharp slope

VOCABULARY STRATEGY: Context Clues (using words and sentences near a word you don’t know to help you figure out the meaning)

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS: ago, carry, certain, everyone, heavy, outside, people, problem, together, warm, again, neither, eyes, gone, happened, house, inside, neither, stood, young

■      HFW Quiz: **Classwork grade instead of oral reading quiz

■      Test: Tuesday, 3/10

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