Week 4, Day 1 Theme Question: What is my heritage? Who are our ancestors? (Wk 1) How do people learn about their heritage or culture? (Wk 2) What kinds of things are passed through the generations? (Wk 3) What can we learn from sharing our heritage or culture with each other? (Wk 4)
Vocabulary Connections Theme vocabulary heritage shimmer ancestor competition generation boundary recipe custom religious
Reading Skim and Scan Pp Purpose Find text evidence to answer Focus Question 1: Who are our ancestors?
Text Evidence – Who are our ancestors? Page numberText evidence
Vowel sounds u, yoo, oo U soundyoo soundoo sound
Week 4, Day 2 Theme Question: What is my heritage? Who are our ancestors? (Wk 1) How do people learn about their heritage or culture? (Wk 2) What kinds of things are passed through the generations? (Wk 3) What can we learn from sharing our heritage or culture with each other? (Wk 4)
Vocabulary Connections Theme vocabulary heritage shimmer ancestor competition generation boundary recipe custom religious
Making Inferences Readers make inferences to help them understand what they read. Making inferences means using what you have read along with that you already know to construct meaning.
Making Inferences What I ReadWhat I KnowMy Inferences p. 22 A quincenera is a party for girls when they turn fifteen. This is similar to a sweet sixteen party that parents plan in the U.S. Parents must do a lot of planning for a quincenera.
Reading Skim and Scan Pp Purpose Find text evidence to answer Focus Question 2: How do people learn about their heritage or culture?
Week 4, Day 3 Theme Question: What is my heritage? Who are our ancestors? (Wk 1) How do people learn about their heritage or culture? (Wk 2) What kinds of things are passed through the generations? (Wk 3) What can we learn from sharing our heritage or culture with each other? (Wk 4)
Using Multiple Vocabulary Strategies StrategyDefinition Synonyms Context Clues Metaphor
Sequencing Events
Reading Skim and Scan Pp Purpose Find text evidence to answer Focus Question 3: What kinds of things are passed on through the generations?
Greek and Latin Roots RootMeaning loc man ped Meter
Week 4, Day 4 Theme Question: What is my heritage? Who are our ancestors? (Wk 1) How do people learn about their heritage or culture? (Wk 2) What kinds of things are passed through the generations? (Wk 3) What can we learn from sharing our heritage or culture with each other? (Wk 4)
Building Theme Connections
Categorizing Words Classify into Adjectives, Nouns, and Verbs heritage shimmer ancestor competition generation boundary recipe custom religious
AdjectivesNounsVerbs
Making Inferences What I ReadWhat I KnowMy Inferences
Reading Skim and Scan Pp Purpose Find text evidence to answer Focus Question 4: What can we learn by sharing our heritage or culture with each other?
Greek and Latin Roots womanlocate centimeterhuman pedalmillimeter pedestalpedometer thermometermanual location