This Week's ELA: Rattlers!

1.8 Spelling and Vocabulary Lists      Story: Rattlers!

Spelling: Plural Nouns

*Copy words in agenda in ABC order (due Wednesday).

*For this week’s spelling homework, you are to write the singular and the plural form of each word.  (No spelling choice this week!)

*Study nightly (M-Th) for the sp. test on Friday.

1. rattlers                     8. reptiles                    15. identities              

2. thesauruses             9. nuclei                       16. losses       

3. countries                 10. beliefs                    17. possibilities

4. liberties                   11. difficulties             18. notches

5. potatoes                  12. batches                  19. zeroes

6. rodeos                     13. abilities                  20. eddies

7. taxes                        14. fungi                      *indices (plural of index)

                                   

Vocabulary:

*Use your glossary to find and write the part of speech and definition for each vocabulary word ON YOUR OWN PAPER.  Finish for HW if necessary (due Wednesday).

Study each night, Tuesday – Thursday, for your test on Friday.

1.     species                        5.  surroundings

2.     survive                                    6.  prey

3.     alert                             7.  predators

4.     vibrates                       8.  lunging

*Please re-read the Rattlers! story at home prior to the story test on Friday. 

Your CPA introduction is due Wednesday.  Be sure to begin this paragraph with a hook, then introduce yourself, and finish with your main points.

IRA: Cause/Effect Relationships

            Things happen in stories for a reason, and one thing leads to another.  A cause is why something happens.  An effect is what happens.  Find at least four different cause and effect relationships (or events) in your independent book.  (That could be one a night but doesn’t have to be.)  Describe each event in a complete sentence in your own words.  Remember the following key words and phrases that you can use: because, caused, since, so, and as a result.

TESTED READING SKILL: main idea and details

TESTED GRAMMAR SKILL:  Singular and plural nouns, prepositions

Poetry Practice:

Snake Mistake

One morning in my bedroom I was startled by a snake, so I picked him up and took him out and threw him in the lake. He returned a minute later, meaning, no, he didn't drown, so I put him on my bicycle and rode him out of town. It was hardly half an hour till he turned up in my room, so I packed him in a parcel and I shipped him to Khartoum. When I found him back again on the succeeding afternoon I went looking for a way that I could blast him to the moon. When I couldn't find a rocket it was then I knew that, dang, a snake is yours forever once he eats your boomerang. --Kenn Nesbitt, from the book The Tighty-Whitey Spider