2-4-2010

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= __Essential Question__: What Makes Us the Same? What Makes Us Different? =

Students will:

 * ===learn about prefixes and suffixes.===
 * ===**learn the reading strategy: determine importance.**===

**Homework:**
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 * Complete Word Maps for the vocabulary on page 166.
 * [|Word Map Template]

Reminders:
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 * ** Checking homework today: **
 * ** pages 168-175, scan for vocabulary **
 * ** Mr. Devine will be in the Night Library every Tuesday from 3:00 to 6:00. **

__Agenda__
1. Vocabulary Review
 * [|Unit 3, Cluster 1]

2. Phonics practice
 * page 62

3. Use Prefixes, Suffixes, and Compound Words (**review transparency 9**)
 * [|Prefixes]

4. Reading Strategy: Determine Importance
 * page 167
 * Review the strategy.

5. Begin reading "If the World Were a Village" pages 168-175
 * Whole class: Listen to the story on the CD.
 * Get in to groups of 3 or 4:
 * Re-play the CD, stop after each page.
 * Give students time to use the reading strategy: determine importance.
 * Later: Re-read the story in groups, answer the questions in the margins.

Persuasive Writing:
 * Begin this tomorrow.
 * What is persuasive writing?
 * Begin reading the first article.
 * Marking the text.
 * number the paragraphs
 * circle all the words that you don't know
 * underline the important details (use the reading strategy, determine importance)
 * Summary sentences for each paragraph. (write on the article)