Mrs. Richards

Unit 5 Week 3

Spelling

  1. ball

  2. small

  3. paw

  4. jaw

  5. pause

  6. sauce

  7. taught

  8. chalk

  9. walk

  10. sought

Vocabulary

  1. champion-a person who has won a contest

  2. determined-decided on something

  3. issues-important problems or topics that people are taking or arguing about

  4. promises-things you yell people you will definitely do

  5. responsibility-a duty or job to do something

  6. rights-things the law says you can do or have

  7. volunteered-offered to do something

  8. votes-choices made by people to elect someone or opinions given to decide something

Genre: Realistic Fiction

  • has characters that talk and act like real people

  • has a setting that could be a real place

  • can be told in first person (uses I, mt, and me)

Comprehension Skill: Point of View

  • The character's point of view is how the character sees things and what the character thinks about the events in the story.

  • The words I, my, me, and mine show that the character is telling the story of his or her point of view.

Vocabulary strategy: Suffixes

  • A suffix is a word part, such as -ful or -less that is added to the end of a root word.

  • To find the meaning of a word that has a suffix, separate the suffix and the root word.

Essential Question:

What do good citizens do?