1. Unit 4: Our Team Big Idea: Community Teamwork People in a community can work together to make a community a better place. Selection 3: Title: A Solution to Pollution Time Magazine For Kids

2. Comprehension Strategy: Summarize Comprehension Skill:
Genre:
Non Fiction– Some articles give information about real people, places, or things.
Comprehension Strategy:
Summarize
Comprehension Skill:
Problem/Solution

3. Phonics:
decode words with /ô/
Spelling Focus:
words with aw, au, al, ough
yawn, taught, salt, lawn, halls, hauls, hawks,
squawk, bought, bawls, drawing, caused,
paused, crawled, coughing
Challenge Words: walrus, autumn, haunted, brought, thoughtful
1. The hawks started to squawk.
2. Andres bought the drawing of a flower.
3. “Who was coughing in the halls?” asked Alexa.

4. Key Vocabulary:
magnificent – wonderful; very beautiful
masterpiece – a great work; a very good example of something
ingredient – one of the parts of a mixture
recipes – lists of ingredients and directions for making food
tasty – having a good flavor

5. Vocabulary Skills: Idioms
** An expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of each separate word
Sometimes you can use the dictionary to help you figure out what idioms mean.
Ex.: “on cloud nine” means very happy

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.