Mrs. Stauffer

3/2/2026-3/6/2026

Genre: Realistic Fiction

  • has characters that talk and act like real people

  • has a setting that could be a real place

  • can be old in first person (uses I, my, and me)

Essential question: What do good citizens do?

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 a story.

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

Vocabulary Strategies: Suffixes

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

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

High Frequency

  • city

  • father

  • mother

  • o'clock

  • read

  • sure

  • own

  • question

  • searching

  • though

Spelling

ball

walk

small

sought

paw

jaw

pause

sauce

taught

chalk

Vocabulary

champion- a person who has won a contest

determined- decided on something

issues- important problems or topics that people are talking or arguing about

promises- things you tell people you will definitely do

responsibility- a duty or job to do something

rights- things the law says you can do or have

volunteered- offered to do something

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