Reading Street Common Core 2013

{4th Grade}

Focus Board Posters

Unit 1 Week 3: On the Banks

of Plum Creek

Question of the Week:

Why do we want to explore

new places?

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Amazing Words: route coast

desert valleys

landscape sights

landmarks enormous

magnificent navigate

Spelling Words: (Words with Long e and o)

sweet each three least

freedom below throat float foam flown

greet season croak

shallow eagle

indeed rainbow grown

seaweed hollow

Challenge Words:

Halloween speedometer underneath

seacoast cocoa

Selection Vocab. badger

bank bristled jointed

patched ruffled rushes

Literary Elements {Character, Setting, Plot}

Characters: people in the

story

Setting: where & when the story

takes place

Plot: the sequence of events

Background Knowledge:

what a reader already knows about a given

topic, gathered from personal

experience.

Historical Fiction:

is realistic fiction that takes place

in the past.

Fictional characters are

placed in a historically

factual setting.

Word Analysis: {Word Ending -ing}

The affix –ing can be added to verbs to form

nouns or ad jectives.

ex) bark+ -ing = barking

Vocabulary Skill: {Multiple-Meaning Words}

Some words have more than one meaning. If the

meaning you know does not make

sense, look up the word in the

dictionary & try each meaning in the

sentence.

Literary Term: {Foreshadowing}

Hints & clues about what will happen later in the

story are called

foreshadowing.

Convention: {Subjects & Predicates}

The sub ject tells whom or what the sentence is

about. The pred icate tells what the subject does.

complete subject = all the words in the subject

complete predicate = all the words in the

predicate

The girls went to the creek.

Writing: {Parody}

a written work that imitates the style of

another author or written work, using humor or

exaggeration.

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