3rd Quarter:

Phonics: Open and Closed SyllablesOpen Closed

R Controlled Vowels (er, ir, ur, ar, or)eriruraror

Contractions (not, am, have, is, are, will)notamhaveisarewill

Plurals with –s, -es, -ies, -ves-s-es-ies-ves

Hard/Soft C & GHard cHard gSoft c

Soft g

Grammar/Punctuation:

Possessive Nouns: Tells who or what owns something *Singular: Kate's backpack*Plurals that end in s: The bees' hive*Plurals that don't end in s: The men's jackets

Dialogue/Quotation Marks: Write a sentence using quotation marks:

STRONG Verbs: Give examples! Adjectives: Give examples!

Reading:

Author’s Purpose:

Examples:PIE

Compare and Contrast:

When you compare something, you are telling how they are __________.

When you contrast something, you are telling how they are __________.

In class, we used _________ diagrams to compare and contrast articles.

Vocabulary in Context:

In my reading group we were word detectives. We looked for key words like but, although, and however to find opposite meanings of words.

Check out this sentence:

Saturday was supposed to be a gloomy day, but when I woke up the sun was shining and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.

How do you know what gloomy means?