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Vocabulary Words and Example of Usage

1. hermit – A hermit is a person who lives alone, often far from a community.
2. fascinated – When you are fascinated by something, you are very interested in it and pay close attention to it.
3. occasionally – If something happens occasionally, it happens once in a while.
4. timid – A timid person is shy and unsure of himself or herself.
5. peculiar– Something peculiar is something that is very strange and unusual, usually not in a good way.
6. drab – Something drab looks dull and lacks color.
7. trembling – If something is trembling, it is shaking slightly.
8. dashed – If someone dashed away, they quickly and suddenly ran away.

Spelling Words:

apron, button, canyon, certain, chicken, cardigan, cotton, dragon, even, fountain, gallon, horizon, listen, orphan, pardon, pollen, prison, siren, swollen, driven
Challenge Words: dolphin, opinion, oxygen, veteran, option

What we are studying...

Reading Skill:
Draw Conclusions
Genre:
Fantasy
Atlas Entry
Grammar Skill:
Pronouns and Antecedents
Writing Skill:
Persuasive
Spelling Skill: Words with Ending /ən/

Lesson 14

MAIN STORY: “The Stranger”
By Chris Van Allsburg
2nd STORY: “A Place in the Sun”
From Scholastic Atlas of Weather

Happy Thanksgiving

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Lesson 13 Study Questions

Many of you did not finish your questions in class. Here they are for you to study and finish.

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Vocabulary Words and Example of Usage

1. treacherous – Something treacherous is dangerous and unpredictable.
2. drudgery – Drudgery is hard, unpleasant, boring work.
3. plunge – If you plunge into something, you rush into it suddenly.
4. smoldering – Something smoldering is burning slowly from the inside,
without flames.
5. altered – When something has been altered, it has been changed.
6. scoffed – If you scoffed at something, you spoke about it in a mocking or
critical way.
7. skeptically – If you talk skeptically about something, you express doubt about
whether it is true.
8. discouraged – If something discouraged you, it made you believe that things
weren’t going to turn out as you had hoped.

Spelling Words:

likable, removable, printable, adorable, comfortable, durable, usable, invisible, responsible, darkness, tidiness, silliness, excitement, government, requirement, loneliness, harmless, hopeless, fearless, horrible
Challenge Words: wilderness, feasible, irritable, relentless, advertisement

Study Skills

Reading Skill: Draw Conclusions
Genre:Realistic Fiction
Magazine Article
Grammar Skill:
Possessive Nouns
Writing Skill:
Student Choice
Spelling Skill: Words with Suffixes: -able, -ible, -ness, -ment, -less

Lesson 13

MAIN STORY: “Fire Storm”
By Jean Craighead George
2nd STORY: “Flame Busters”
By R.B. Schmidt

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Vocabulary Words and Example of Usage

1. eruption – An eruption happens when something bursts through a surface.
2. depths – The depths of something are its deepest parts.
3. gradually – Something that happens gradually happens very slowly over time.
4. revealed – When something is revealed, it was hidden but can now be seen.
5. contract – To contract means to get smaller by shrinking.
6. constant – If something is constant, it happens without stopping.
7. immediate – An immediate event is one that happens right away.

Spelling Words:

reuse, restart, retell, resend, replace, uncork, unstuck, unannounced, unpleasant, unchain, unfit, nonprofit, nonmetal, recall, nontoxic, unwelcome, reproduce, retrace, uninvited, reapply
Challenge Words: unchanging, unyielding, nonexistent, refinish, reprogram

What are we studying?

Reading Skill:
Text Structure: Cause and Effect
Genre:
Expository Non-Fiction (gives information about a topic)
Magazine Article
Grammar Skill:
Singular and Plural Nouns
Writing Skill:
Form: Informational Paragraph
Trait: Conventions
Spelling Skill: Words with Prefixes: re-, un-, non-

Reading this Week

MAIN STORY: “Mountains”
By Seymour Simon
2nd STORY: “To the Top of the World”
By David Breashears

A Great Week!

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Can Drive

Our can drive is still going on!!! Bring in those cans!!!

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Vocabulary Words and Example of Usage

1. predators – Predators are animals that kill and eat other animals.
2. traits – Traits are particular qualities or characteristics of a person or thing.
3. lure – If something lures you, it makes you want to go to it, even though it is dangerous or could get you in trouble.
4. avoid – If you avoid a person or thing, you keep away from that person or thing.
5. mimic – If you mimic a person or thing, you try to act or look exactly like that person or thing.
6. obvious – If something is obvious, it is so easily seen or understood that no one has to explain it.
7. resembles – If one person or thing resembles another, the two look similar to each other.
8. deceptive – A deceptive person or thing tries to make you believe something that is not true.

Spelling

Spelling Words: begin, vanish, bonus, legal, event, moment, motive, native, suburb, mimic, paper, pilot, raven, rival, relish, silent, solar, spider, super, virus
Challenge Words: basis, enemy, balance, chemical, fiber

Reading This Week

4th Grade ELA Study Guide --- Lesson 11
MAIN STORY: “Mimicry and Camouflage”
By Mar Hoff
2nd STORY: “lizards, frogs and polliwogs”
By Douglas Florian

Reading Skill:
Test Structure: Cause and Effect
Genre:
Expository Non-Fiction (gives information about a topic)
Poetry
Grammar Skill:
Common and Proper Nouns
Writing Skill:
Descripitive Writing
Spelling Skill: Words with VCV

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