Unit 3 Week 3
"Learning to Swim"
Comprehension Skills:sequence: the order of events in a story
predict: guess what will happen next/later on in a story's plot dialect: a style of speech that is characteristic of people from a certain area or culture; it often includes slang and idioms |
Vocabulary:customary: according to custom; usual
emphasized: stressed; called attention to frantic: very much excited; wild with rage, fear, pain or grief stunned: dazed, bewildered, shocked, overwhelmed treaded: kept the body straight in the water with the head above the surface by moving the arms and legs |
Conventions:Verbs, Objects & Subject Complements
Direct Object: tells what receives the action of a verb; follows an action verb Example: She gave her brother a book. Indirect Object: tells to whom the action of a verb is done ; follows an action verb Example: She gave her brother a book. Subject Complements: noun or adjective that follows a linking verb in a sentence, telling who or what the subject is like Example: Todd is the captain of the team. |
Spelling:"Using Just Enough Letters"
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