Mrs. Stauffer

11/3/2025-11/07/2025

In reading we will be learning about animal habitats and adaptations. Students will use what they have learned from this u nit and complete a habitat project. More information on this project will be sent home soon.

Essential question: How can people help out their community?

Comprehension Skill: Authors Purpose

  • Each writer has a purpose, or reason, for writing a selection

  • Writers write informational text to answer question, explain how something works, or describe

  • To find the author's purpose, ask yourself, "What does the author want me to know?"

Vocabulary Strategies: Synonyms

  • Synonyms are words that have almost the same meaning.

  • Example: big and large

High Frequency

  • also

  • apart

  • begin

  • either

  • hundred

  • over

  • places

  • those

  • which

  • without

Spelling

light

dry

sight

try

mind

lie

cry

tie

high

Vocabulary

across- go from one side of something to another

borrow- take something and agree to return it later

countryside- land that is away from cities or large towns

idea- a thought or plan you have for something

insist- say firmly that something must be done

lonely- to be alone

solution- a way to answer a problem

villages- very small towns in the country