Theme 4:

Land, Sea, Sky

Weekly Theme:
Helping Planet Earth

Selection 1:
Title: A Way to Help Planet Earth
Genre:
Nonfiction Article – gives information about real
people, things, or events

Comprehension Strategy:
Generate Questions

Comprehension Skill:
Main Idea and Details
Phonics:
variant vowels: oo, ou
Spelling Focus:
Variant Vowels
shook hook crook soot should
stood brook foot could would

HF Words: during, sure, whole

Key Vocabulary:

conservation – the protection and wise use

of forests, rivers, minerals, and other natural
resources
remains – stays when others have left
trouble – danger; problem
extinct – when a thing dies our and no more
of its kind are living anywhere on Earth
hardest – needing or using a lot of work
Vocabulary Skills:
Word Parts -
Comparatives/Superlatives
** The endings –er and –est are used to
compare things.
**The ending –er means more than and is
used to compare two things.
**The ending –est means most and is used
to compare more than two things.
Word Work:
Grammar Skills:
Some verbs are irregular. That means
that you do not add –ed to form the past
tense. The verbs go and do have special
forms in the past tense.

Roger did a report about recycling last week.

We went to the park last Saturday.