Reading Wonders - Unit 3 Week 5

Name ______Reading Wonders - Unit 3 Week 5

Vocabulary Weekly Skills

*An era is a period of time or history.

*Something that is preserved is Vocabulary – Context Clues protected so that it does not decay or get  When you come across an unfamiliar or multiple damaged. meaning word, context clues found in the same sentence may help you learn its meaning.

*Remnants are small pieces or parts of something that are left over. Strategy – Summarize

 Summarizing persuasive articles as you read is a *An archaeologist is a person who digs good way to keep track of how the authors make up and studies remains of ancient towns important points. and cities.

Skill – Author’s Point of View *When you reconstruct something, you  In arguing for or against an idea in a persuasive put its parts back together. article, an author is giving his or her point of view, or position, about the topic.

*Fragments are small, broken pieces. Genre – Persuasive Article

*Something that is intact is whole or  Try to persuade a reader to support a position or complete. idea, include opinions that are supported with details, reasons, and evidence, include text features, such as diagrams *A historian is a person who knows a great deal about history. Writing – Sentence Fluency

 Writers use transitions to connect ideas

Grammar – Irregular Verbs

 An irregular verb is a verb that does not add -ed to form the past tense. EQ: How do we explain what happened in the past? Name ______

Spelling – r-Controlled Vowel Syllables

1. perform ______

2. gentler ______

3. scissors ______

4. founder ______

5. director ______

6. danger ______

7. saucer ______

8. labor ______

9. peddler ______10. error ______11. crater ______12. pillar ______13. splendor ______14. margin ______15. professor ______16. shatter ______17. governor ______18. vapor ______19. equator ______20. fonder ______