🔺Module 6 - W1 - Day 1 - ELA

Lesson Instructions

You will go through two lessons (one in grammar and one in reading). 

Phone.png GRAMMAR

Introduction

Hi grammarians! We are focusing on context clues with finding the meaning of words! 

When strong readers come to an unfamiliar word, they use the clues around the words to determine the meaning. 

Today, our focus is inferences.

Visual

Stop and Jot

In Your Notebook:  Copy down the chart from above. You will be filling it out as we continue our lessons on context clues this week!

Interactive

 

Phone (2).png READING

Introduction

As readers of informational text, we have to decide whether the text we are reading is a first hand or second hand account. 

A first hand account is a person who experienced what happened directly. They were a witness to the action.

Video

Stop and Jot

In Your Notebook:  Write the types of First Hand Accounts: letters, diaries, speeches, autobiographies, and e-mails.
Read for 30 minutes from a nonfiction story of your choice. Answer the following questions:

Is this firsthand account? How can you tell?

 

 

 

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