<p>Name ______Reading Wonders - Unit 3 Week 5</p><p>Vocabulary Weekly Skills</p><p>*An era is a period of time or history.</p><p>*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.</p><p>*Remnants are small pieces or parts of something that are left over. Strategy – Summarize</p><p> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>*Fragments are small, broken pieces. Genre – Persuasive Article</p><p>*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</p><p> Writers use transitions to connect ideas</p><p>Grammar – Irregular Verbs</p><p> 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 ______</p><p>Spelling – r-Controlled Vowel Syllables</p><p>1. perform ______</p><p>2. gentler ______</p><p>3. scissors ______</p><p>4. founder ______</p><p>5. director ______</p><p>6. danger ______</p><p>7. saucer ______</p><p>8. labor ______</p><p>9. peddler ______10. error ______11. crater ______12. pillar ______13. splendor ______14. margin ______15. professor ______16. shatter ______17. governor ______18. vapor ______19. equator ______20. fonder ______</p>