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 PollutionTime Magazine For Kids

Genre:Non Fiction– Some articles give information about real people,

places, or things.

Comprehension Strategy:

Summarize

Comprehension Skill:Problem/Solution

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.

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

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

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.