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Spelling, Reading and Writing
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May 21-25 Practice the words every day to establish good study habits. The spelling focus this week for 4th : Words from Science The spelling focus this week for 5th: Words from Health 4th Grade List : rescue, survive, channel, vessel, expose, dying, shelter, extreme, danger, protect, seaweed, creatures, dissolve, motion, feature, adapt, locate, assist, future, divers 5th Grade List: illness, breathing, oxygen, health, heart, kidneys, safety, organ, lungs, reaction, headaches, vitamin, hazard, substance, particle, smog, artery, ozone, symptom, allergy Vocabulary Words: 4th grade: coral, reefs, percent, damage, loosened, ton 5th grade: fumes, regulations, stricter, width, standards, protective Reading Fourth Grade theme: Make a Plan Article: Can We Rescue the Reefs? Skills: context clues; sequence of events; important & unimportant information; make inferences; draw conclusions; fact, nonfact & opinion; compare and contrast; draw conclusions; figurative language; prefixes; root words Fifth Grade theme: Bright Ideas Article: Cleaning up America's Air Skills:compare & contrast; author's purpose & point of view; fact and nonfact; important and unimportant information;judgments and decisions; draw conclusions; suffixes ; root words Writing 4th ~ Descriptive 5th ~ Persuasive
Mrs. McDonald
East Greenbush CSD
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