5Th Grade Spelling

5th Grade Spelling LAFFF Science Fiction Unit 4 Lesson 17 Big Idea Everyone has a story to tell. 1. tiring Essential Question What problem does the character face? 2. borrowed 3. freezing Target Vocabulary impressed - left with a positive feeling 4. delivered admitted - agreed that something is true produced - created, made 5. whispered destination - a place to which people travel original - first or fresh 6. losing concentrate - focus one' attention 7. decided collected - calm and sensible; together rumor - a piece of information people talk about that may not be 8. amazing true suspense - tension felt when waiting for something to happen 9. performing compliment - a positive, admiring, or respectful remark

10. resulting Comprehension Target Skill

11. related Story Structure - how the author organized important parts of the 12. attending story, called story elements, including character, setting and plot. Setting includes where and when a story takes place. The plot is 13. damaged the story events, including a conflict, or problem, and its resolution. The resolution is how the conflict or problem in a story 14. remarked is solved. Understanding each element of a story helps readers understand the story as a whole. 15. practicing Target Strategy 16. supported Infer/Predict - inferring and predicting can help readers better understand the story as they read. 17. united Vocabulary Strategies 18. expected Using Reference Sources - Use dictionary, thesaurus and glossary entries to learn word meanings and identify synonyms and 19. amusing antonyms. A dictionary entry includes the definition, part of 20. repeated speech, origin, pronunciation and spelling of the entry word. When an entry appears in a dictionary, the part of speech is identified 21. north before the word's definition. Parts of speech include nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns and adverbs. The part of speech may 22. seven be abbreviated; for example, verb = v. A glossary entry includes information on the words in a specific text, such as a school book, 23. famous including the definition and pronunciation. Glossaries function much like dictionaries, but they are specific to a text, such as a

24. late textbook. Glossaries contain the meaning of the entry words as it 25. pay is used in the text, the pronunciation, and sometimes, where it is used in the text. A thesaurus entry is a listing of synonyms and antonyms for a word. You can use a thesaurus to add more descriptive words to their writing and to identify words related to Challenge Words the entry word. You can also use a thesaurus to find antonyms for the entry word. 1. assigned Grammar 2. entertaining Adverbs - describe a verb. Some adverbs tell how often an action happens. They are called adverbs of frequency. Adverbs that tell 3. operated how much or to what degree an action happens are called adverbs of intensity. 4. rehearsing 5. donated