Mrs. Stauffer

1/12/2026-1/16/2026

Genre:Realistic Fiction

  • Includes facts about real events

  • includes text features such as subheads and bold print

Essential question: How does the Earth change?

Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect

  • A cause is an event or action that makes something happen.

  • An effect is what happens because of that event.

Vocabulary Strategies: Context Clues

  • Context clues are other words and sentences that are near the word you are trying to understand.

  • These clues can help you figure out the meaning of the unknown word.

High Frequency

  • ago

  • carry

  • warm

  • certain

  • everyone

  • heavy

  • outside

  • problem

  • people

  • together

Spelling

port

part

north

start

more

park

store

oar

roar

board

Vocabulary

active- lively and ready to work as expected

earth- the ground or land we walk on

explode-to burst loudly with a lot of force

island-land that has water all around it

local- something that is nearby

properties- the different ways something looks and acts

solid-something that is firm and hard and keeps its shape

steep-something that has a very sharp slope