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Vocabulary Link 

unit 1: Meeting Challenges

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Q: What kinds of challenges do people face and how do they meet them?

Red Kayak

Q: What inspires people to act courageously? 
Skills and Strategies
Word Analysis:   Suffix -ly

Vocabulary Skill:  Homographs

Comprehension Skill:  Character/Plot

Comprehension Strategy:  Predict

Related Links (games and stuff):
Suffix -ly 
Quia homographs
EZ Homographs
Elements of a story review 
Story Elements
Making Predictions

VocabuLary 

1. intentionally 
2. insistently
3. grumbled
4. compression
5. minute
6. neutral
7. normally
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Characters, setting, and of course the plot rap. 

Thunder Rose

Q: How can nature challenge us?


Skills and Strategies
Word Analysis:  Latin/Greek Roots (srtuct, fig, port)

Vocabulary Skill:  Multiple-Meaning words

Comprehension Skill:  Cause and Effect 

Comprehension Strategy:  Monitor and Clarify

Related Links (games and stuff):
Greek to Me
Quia Cause and Effect 
Multiple Meaning Word Game
Subjects and Predicates




Vocabulary 

1. branded
2. constructed
3. daintily
4. devastation
5. lullaby
6. pitch
7. resourceful
8. thieving
9. veins
Spelling List 
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Island of the blue dolphins

Q: How do people survive in the wilderness?

Skills and Strategies
Word Analysis:   Compound Words

Vocabulary Skill:  Synonyms

Comprehension Skill:  Theme/Setting

Comprehension Strategy:   Visualize

Related Links (games and stuff):Synonym Same
Synonym Toast 
Compound Words
Find the Synonym 
Independent and Dependent Clauses 
More Clause Practice 
BioCube Creator 
Dependent and Independent Clause Intro 

Vocabulary 

  • lair
  • ravine
  • gnawed
  • sinew
  • shellfish
  • kelp
  • headland



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Satchel Paige

Q: How do we face personal challenges?

Skills and Strategies
Word Analysis:  Shades of Meaning

Vocabulary Skill:  Antonyms

Comprehension Skill:  Sequence

Comprehension Strategy:   Ask questions

Related Links (games and stuff):
Antonym Match 
Antonym Toss
Word Frog 
Sequence Practice 
Sequence money 
Biography.com
  • confidence
  • windup
  • fastball
  • outfield
  • mocking
  • weakness
  • unique



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Ten Mile Day 

Q: What kinds of challenges do immigrants encounter?

Skills and Strategies
Word Analysis:   Suffix -er

Vocabulary Skill:  Multiple-Meaning words

Comprehension Skill:   Cause and Effect

Comprehension Strategy:    Summarize

Related Links (games and stuff):
Multiple Meanings 
Cause and Effect 
Graphic Organizers 
PBS Information
Vocabulary 
deafening
prying
lurched
previous
surveying
barren

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