Hottet Coldest Highest Deepest
by Steve Jenkins
Genre: Expository Text
Question of the Week:
What makes nature's record holders unique?
Target Skills
Comprehension Skill is Graphic Sources. Graphic Sources is Graphic sources are ways of showing information visuallly, or in a way you can see. Your child should be able to gain meaning from charts, diagrams, and maps in a story.
Comprehension Strategy is Important Ideas. Important Ideas is before you read a story, look for the important ideas in titles, topic sentences, keywords and captions. Your child should be able to stop during reading and tell you what the text is about.
Vocabulary Strategy is Word Structure
Phonics is R Controlled Vowels
Writing Conventions is
Writing is Word Choice
Vocabulary:
average- the quantity found by dividing the sum of all quantities by the number of quantities
depth- the distance from the top to the bottom
deserts- dry, sandy regions without water and trees
erupted- burst out
outrun- run faster than someone or something else
peak- the pointed top of a mountain or hill
tides- rise and fall of the ocean's waters about every twelve hours
waterfalls- really badstreams of water that fall from a high place
by Steve Jenkins
Genre: Expository Text
Question of the Week:
What makes nature's record holders unique?
Target Skills
Comprehension Skill is Graphic Sources. Graphic Sources is Graphic sources are ways of showing information visuallly, or in a way you can see. Your child should be able to gain meaning from charts, diagrams, and maps in a story.
Comprehension Strategy is Important Ideas. Important Ideas is before you read a story, look for the important ideas in titles, topic sentences, keywords and captions. Your child should be able to stop during reading and tell you what the text is about.
Vocabulary Strategy is Word Structure
Phonics is R Controlled Vowels
Writing Conventions is
Writing is Word Choice
Vocabulary:
average- the quantity found by dividing the sum of all quantities by the number of quantities
depth- the distance from the top to the bottom
deserts- dry, sandy regions without water and trees
erupted- burst out
outrun- run faster than someone or something else
peak- the pointed top of a mountain or hill
tides- rise and fall of the ocean's waters about every twelve hours
waterfalls- really badstreams of water that fall from a high place