Unit 2 Week 1
The Universe
Reading:Main Idea: the most important, or central, idea of a text
To find the main idea, ask yourself, "What is the most important idea about the topic?" Oftentimes, it is the first sentence of a key paragraph. Details: pieces of information that support, explain, and/or tell about the main idea Monitor & Clarify: to be aware of your understanding while reading and to use strategies to restore understanding as needed Paraphrase: explain a text in your own words, while retaining the author's meaning and ideas Unlike summarizing, which includes only the important ideas, paraphrasing contains all the author's ideas. |
Vocabulary:astronomers (n): experts in the science that deals with the sun, moon, planets, stars, and galaxies
collapse (v): to cave in collide (v): to strike together violently compact (adj): firmly packed together galaxy (n): a group of billions of stars forming one system particles (n): extremely small units of matter |
Conventions/Grammar:Plural Noun: more than one person, place, thing, or idea
book (singular)--> books (plural) kid (singular) --> kids (plural) Irregular Plural Noun: a noun that changes its spelling when changed from one (singular) to more than one (plural) child --> children galaxy --> galaxies |
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