A Symphony of Whales by: Steve Schuch Genre: Vocabulary Strategy: Comprehension Skill: Comprehension Strategy: Fiction Context Clues Generalize Answer Questions

Review Concept Board Question of the day! What reasons would you have to learn another animal's language? 1/2/2019

Phonics Objectives: Use word parts to decode words with suffixes. Review g, j, dge/j/; s, c/s/; c, k, ck, ch/k/; contrast hard g with soft g. Blend and read g, j, dge/j/; s, c/s/; c, k, ck, ch/k/ words and suffixes. Apply decoding strategies: blend longer words. 1/2/2019

Connect judge cage lock sauce badge fork Chris jab citation juice lake germs We studied the sounds /j/ (g, j, dge), /s/ (c, s), and /k/ (c, k, ck, ch). Circle all the words with /j/, draw a box around all the words with /k/, and underline all the words with /s/. Note that some words have more than one of these sounds. In pairs, have students discuss why each letter sounds the way it does and why some letters stand for more than one sound. 1/2/2019

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Read words in context Jake donated generously to the school food drive. A chronic illness can often be treated but not cured. Abby helped Mom trim the hedge. The principal only had to tell the class to be quiet once. Kate found herself in a real pickle. 1/2/2019

Small Group Time Read He Listens to Whales pages 376-379 1/2/2019

FLUENCY - Partner Reading Partners practice reading aloud the first two paragraphs on p. 366. Students should read with accuracy at an appropriate reading pace. 1/2/2019

Sound Underwater microphones, or hydrophones, are special microphones for underwater use. Hydrophones come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials, and are used for anything from underwater gas and oil exploration to listening to whales and dolphins. 1/2/2019

Language Objectives: Become familiar with verb tense agreement assessment on high-stakes tests. 1/2/2019

Daily Fix-it Yesterday the whales appeared on the beach. Yesterday the whales will appear on the beech. Some will returned to the water safly. Yesterday the whales appeared on the beach. Some will return to the water safely. 1/2/2019

Standardized Test Tip You may be asked to identify the tense of a verb in a sentence. Remember that a verb that has no ending or ends with -s and has no helping verb is a present tense verb. A verb with -ed is a past tense verb. A verb with the helping verb will is a future tense verb. Present: Whales swim near the boat. Past: They bumped into the side. Future: They will stay away next time. 1/2/2019

Present, past, and future verbs. 1/2/2019

Writing objectives: Revise a news story that answers the questions who, what, where, when, why, and how. 1/2/2019

Checklist Does the news story tell about an event in time order with no wordiness? Does the story answer the 5 Ws and how? Are present, past, and future tenses used correctly? Are words with the suffixes -ly, -ful, - ness, and -less spelled correctly? 1/2/2019

Revising Tips Support your news story by writing sentences that tell the facts without being wordy. Use a combination of short, simple sentences and longer compound sentences. Begin some sentences with time- order words for variety. 1/2/2019

Spelling Objective: Spell words with suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness, -less. 1/2/2019

Spelling Strategy Word Endings Make spelling words with suffixes easier for students by showing that the base word only changes its spelling when it ends in the letter y. 1/2/2019

Let’s do this part together. 1/2/2019

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