Mrs. Stauffer

3/9/2026-3/13/2026

Genre: Persuasive Text

  • gives facts and information about a topic

  • can have photos, captions, and charts

Essential question: Why are rules important?

Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose

  • An author's purpose is the main reason an author writes a text.

  • Authors write nonfiction to answer, explain, or describe information about a topic.

  • Authors may also write to persuade or to entertain readers.

Vocabulary Strategies: Multiple-Meaning Words

  • Multiple-meaning words have more than one meaning.

  • Use the other words in a sentence to figure out which meaning is correct.

High Frequency

  • anything

  • children

  • everybody

  • paper

  • instead

  • person

  • whole

  • woman

  • words

Spelling

dead

gym

ahead

myth

lead

thread

bread

breath

touch

trouble

Vocabulary

exclaimed- speaking or shouting suddenly after being excited or upset

finally- something that happens after a long time

form- making or shaping something

history- story of what happened in the past

public- something that is for all people to use or visit

rules- directions that tell how to do something or what is allowed

united- things that are brought or joined together

writers- people who write stories, books, and articles