Mrs. Higley ~ 3rd Grade

Unit 4, Week 3

Date: Jan. 26-30

Genre: Expository Text

  • gives facts and information to explain a topic

  • may be about science topics

  • text features: maps, photographs, captions

Essential Question

How do animals adapt to challenges in their habitat?

Comprehension Skill:

Compare and Contrast

  • To compare, look for ways that two things are alike.

  • To contrast, look for ways two things are different.

  • Signal words: both, alike, same, different

Vocabulary Strategy:

Sentence Clues

  • Sentence clues are words or phrases in a sentence that help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

  • Look for phrases between commas that are near the unknown word.

  • Sentence clues may define, or tell exactly, what a word means.

Spelling Words

  1. taught

  1. hauls

  1. caused

  1. paused

  1. squawk

  1. drawing

  1. crawl

  1. flawless

  1. lawn

  1. salt

  1. talked

  1. halls

  1. water

  1. bought

  1. thoughtless

Vocabulary Words:

  1. alert - to give warning

  2. competition - a situation in which people or animals are trying to be more successful than others

  3. environment - the natural features of a place

  4. excellent - very good

  5. prefer - to like better

  6. protection - when something is kept safe

  7. related - to belong to the same family

  8. shelter - something that cover or protects

Upcoming Events

Jan 23rd- Grade cards go home

Feb 12th- Parent teacher conferences 4-7pm

Feb 13th- Parent teacher conferences 8-11 am (no school)

Contact:

740-649-9287

Email: tara.higley@sepanthers.org

January, February, and March, the third graders will be having a "classroom game/ supplies" gift exchange.

Nightly reading will go home Tuesday and be due on Friday.