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U3w3 Reading Skills and Strategies

This document provides information about reading strategies and skills being covered in a unit for the week of November 25, 2014. It discusses the comprehension strategy of summarizing, including restating the main ideas in your own words. It also covers the genres of narrative nonfiction and their key characteristics. Additionally, it outlines the vocabulary strategy of understanding prefixes and suffixes to determine word meanings. The comprehension skill of identifying sequence or series of steps in informational text is described. Finally, it lists vocabulary words for homework and options for practicing them.

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U3w3 Reading Skills and Strategies

This document provides information about reading strategies and skills being covered in a unit for the week of November 25, 2014. It discusses the comprehension strategy of summarizing, including restating the main ideas in your own words. It also covers the genres of narrative nonfiction and their key characteristics. Additionally, it outlines the vocabulary strategy of understanding prefixes and suffixes to determine word meanings. The comprehension skill of identifying sequence or series of steps in informational text is described. Finally, it lists vocabulary words for homework and options for practicing them.

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Reading Strategies and Skills


Unit 3 Week 3
Test Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
-Informational texts include ideas and details that may
be unfamiliar. Finding and understanding key details is
important as they read.
-You can summarize to check your understanding, to
rethink what you have read, and to remember main
ideas.
- Ask yourself about what a section of a text is about.
Look for important details in the passage to decide
what central idea the details have in common.
- To summarize, you have to briefly restate the most
important ideas in your own words and in a logical
order.
-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook pages
123-134. Also refer to The RWW book page 198.

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction


Key characteristics of Narrative Nonfiction include:
-Tells about real people, places, and events.
Unlike other information text, it uses story
form to describe true experiences and
sequence of real events.
-May tell the story of a region's economic,
presenting facts about ways people hear and
use money.
-It usually expresses the author's point of view,
or perspective, through a particular voice or
tone. This should how he or she feels about
the topic.
- For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook page
126. Also refer to The RWW book page 200.

Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes and Suffixes


-Knowing the meaning of common prefixes and
suffices can help you figure out the meaning of an
unfamiliar word.
Prefix
ReUn-

Meaning
Back; again
Not; opposite

Suffix
-ity, -ty
-ful

Meaning
Quality of;
state of
Full of

-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook


page 127. Also refer to The RWW book p. 201 and
the Word Study Center.

Comprehension Skill: Sequence


-Sequence is one type of text structure, or what the authors

organize ideas in a selection. Sequence refers to a series of steps


or events placed in time order.
-To think about sequence in informational text, you should look
for steps that occur over time. Ask:
-What happens first? Next? What then? Finally?
Identifying the steps in the sequence can help you understand
how the outcome was achieved and what the author's message
is.
-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook pages 123-125.
Also refer to The RWW book page 199.

Vocabulary Menu Homework


abundant impoverished ingenuity
sharecropper solitude unearthed

productivity
windswept

To get an A, complete 3 of the following,


To get a B, complete 2 of the following;
To get a C, complete 1 of the following;
To get a F, complete 0 of the following
1. Write a sentence using each of the vocabulary
words.
2. Make a word search puzzle using all of the
vocabulary words (list the words at the
bottom).
3. Define all the words.
4. Make a crossword puzzle using all of the
vocabulary words (with clues for each word).
5. Create some type of review game with the
vocabulary words.
6. Create a vocabulary quiz (and answer key) with
the vocabulary words.
7. Create vocabulary flashcards.

Wonders Online Help:


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