Lesson 21 (no spelling this week) A Closer Look at the Week This Week in ELA Lesson 21 (no spelling this week) Study Island Skills Please take time this week to make sure your student has blue ribbons in the following skills. This will be in lieu of spelling and other ELA homework. Lesson 21 Vocabulary 1. conserved 2. strict 3. absence 4. shelter 5. permanently 6. drifts 7. scarce 8. dim 9. harsh 10. bleak 3d. Events, Ideas, Concepts, & Procedures 3e. Point of View in Informational Texts 3h. Compare & Contrast in Informational Texts 4b. Tasks, Purpose, and Audience A Closer Look at the Week This Week’s Story: Antarctic Ice (Expository Nonfiction) Focus Skill: Sequence – We will follow the sequence of nonfiction text by looking for time-order words, such as first, next, then, later, and finally in order to give clues about the order in which events happen. Date and times are also clues to sequence. Keeping track of sequence helps us understand what we are reading. It also helps with our own writing, too! The verb “to be” – This week, we will look at the verb to be. We will discuss how the subject and verb in a sentence must agree in order for the sentence to make sense. This means that a singular subject needs a singular verb. A plural subject needs a plural verb.