Mrs. Richards

Unit 5 Week 3

Spelling

  1. room

  2. flu

  3. June

  4. new

  5. glue

  6. fruit

  7. crook

  8. could

  9. full

  10. push

  11. point

  12. coin

  13. along

  14. ever

  15. strong

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?