home-grown butterflies focus wall
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Treasures Unit 6 3rd GradeTRANSCRIPT
Unit 6:Achievements
Weekly Theme:Raising Butterflies
Selection 5:Title: Home-Grown ButterfliesAuthor: Deborah Churchman
Genre:Nonfiction Article– gives information about real people, places,
or things
Comprehension Strategy:
Monitor Comprehension
Comprehension Skill: Relevant details: Draw Conclusions
Phonics:
Decode Words with Accented Syllables
Spelling Focus:
because, rubber, about, puddle, alive, behind, before, around, better, attract, kettle, hammer, attend, tickle, people
Review Words: peaceful, helpless, carefully
Challenge Words: believe, beaver
Key Vocabulary:disappear – to stop existing or go away
completely
protect – keep from harm
harming – doing damage to or hurting
involved – taking part in
supply – amount available for use
capture – to catch and hold
enclosure – 1. a structure that keeps things closed in 2. something included
Vocabulary Skills:
Dictionary: Multiple-Meaning Words
If you cannot figure out a word’s meaning with context clues or word parts, look up the word in the dictionary.
Some words have several meanings. Try each meaning in the sentence to find the one that makes sense.
Word Work:
Grammar Skills:Sentence Combining with Adjectives and Adverbs
Two sentences that have the same noun can be combined by adding an adjective to one sentence.
Two sentences that tell about the same action can be combined by adding an adverb to one sentence.
**When you combine sentences, look for words that repeat.