1. Unit 4:. Determination Weekly Theme:
Unit 4: Determination Weekly Theme: A Place of My Own Selection 5: Title: My Very Own Room Author: Amada Irma Pérez

2. Comprehension Strategy: Monitor Comprehension Comprehension Skill:
Genre:
Realistic Fiction– an invented story that could have happened in real life.
Comprehension Strategy:
Monitor Comprehension
Comprehension Skill:
Plot Development: Make Predictions

3. Phonics:
decode plurals
Spelling Focus:
Plurals
years, twins, trays, states, ashes, foxes, inches, flies, cities, ponies, bunches, alleys, lunches, cherries, daisies
Review Words: sale, rode, you’re
Challenge Words: heroes, libraries

4. Key Vocabulary: determination – a firm purpose
separate – to set apart or keep apart
determination – a firm purpose
storage – a place for keeping things for future use
crate – a box made of pieces of wood
exact – very accurate
ruined – damaged greatly or destroyed
luckiest – having the most good luck

5. Word Parts: Endings –ER, -EST
Vocabulary Skills:
Word Parts: Endings –ER, -EST
**These endings change the meaning of the adjective they end.
The ending –er at the end of an adjective means more.
The ending –est at the end of an adjective means most.

6. Word Work: Grammar Skills: Contractions with Not
A contraction is a shortened form of two words.
An apostrophe takes the place of one or more letters.
Some contractions are formed with the verbs be, do, have, and not.
These verbs do not usually change their spellings in a contraction with not.