Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

1. Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest Day 2

2. Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest • Author: Steve Jenkins • Genre: Expository Nonfiction • Author’s Purpose: Inform • Skill:Compare and Contrast

3. Question of the Week • Where is the world's largest body of fresh water found?

4. Phonics Objectives • Associate / r/ with the letters that spell it. • Review irregular plurals. • Blend and read words that contain / r/. • Apply decoding strategies: blendlonger words.

5. Phonics burnthird • What sound do the two words have in common? • This sound is an r-controlled vowel. It can be spelled er, ir, or, ur, or ear. • Which letters stand for / r/ in world?

6. Phonics • How is / r/ spelled in the wordsearch? • Let’s blend the word search:

7. Decode Longer Words insure perching circus wordless relearn disturb Infer Which letters make the /ur/ sound? Let’s underline them.

8. Read the Words in Context • We visited the desert last spring. • Uncle Bert likes playing third base. • The bus pulled up to the curb. • The earth is round, like a ball. • The early bird gets the worm. Which words contain the /ur/ sound?

9. Vocabulary Strategy • Objectives: • Use word structure to determine the meaning of compound words.

10. Word Structure • When you are reading, you may come across a long word that looks like two words. Look closely at the word. Do you see two small words in it? It may be a compound word. • Divide the compound word into its twosmall words. • Think of the meaning of each small word,and put the two meanings together. • Try the new meaning in the sentence.Does it make sense?

11. The two words in waterfalls are water and falls. I know what water is. Falls means "to fall down." So waterfalls refers to "water that falls down over something."

12. Small Group • Read “Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest”, pages 40 - 47

13. Fluency – Silent Reading • Listen as I read aloud p. 45. Notice how I block out outside noises and distractions, and also notice the accuracy at which I read. • Now you practice reading p. 45 silently.

14. Science

15. Grammar Day 2

16. Objectives • Define and identify subject and objectpronouns. • Use subject and object pronouns in writing. • Become familiar with pronoun assessment on high-stakes tests.

17. Daily Fix-it • Terry and me read about Mount everest. Terry and I read about Mount Everest. • Its the highest mountain onthe erth. It’s the highest mountain on the earth.

18. Guided Practice • When a pronoun is used as the subject of a sentence, it is called a subject pronoun.I, you, he, she, it, we, and they are subject pronouns. • Pronouns that are used after action verbs or as objects of prepositions are called object pronouns.Me, you, him, her, it, us, and them are object pronouns.

20. Writing Day 2

21. Objectives • Identify the characteristics of adescription. • Write a description of asetting using an engaging style. • Focus on word choice. • Use a rubric. Genre Description Writer's Craft Style Writing Trait Word Choice

23. Writing: Style • Tomorrow we will write a description of a place. • What style will I use? • I can use many facts to describe the setting: The mountain was six thousand feet high. It took seven minutes to reach the peak by cable car. • I can use sensory words such as majestic and grand. • I can vary the lengths of my sentences, making some very short and others much longer. • These can all be elements of my writing style.

24. Spelling Day 2

25. The vowel sound / r/ can be spelled in several different ways.Read each spelling word. Let’s under how /ur/ is spelled in each word.

26. Sort the Words er ir or ear