Reading/Language for Week 24 (2/18-2/21)

*Our Reading and Language lessons come from Lesson 21 in the reading textbook.

Reading: Identifying and Analyzing Characters, Setting, and Plot in Historical Fiction (Excerpt from Sarah, Plain and Tall and various other texts)

Language: Identifying and Using Comparative Adverbs 

Social Studies: Eleanor Roosevelt (Impact of her life, beliefs, and work {including her work with the United Nations} on civil rights)

Spelling and Vocabulary: Words with the suffixes -ed and -ing

Spelling List

coming 

making 

scared

swimming 

stopped 

freezing

dropping

tapping

taping

invited

saving

stared

planned

changing

joking

loved

gripped

tasted

Vocabulary

1.    prairie: a treeless, grass-covered plain in the Midwest

2.    slick: having a smooth, glossy, or slippery surface

3.     fetch: to go after and bring back somebody or something

4.     clattered: made a loud rattling

5.     sniff: breathe in through the nose to see how something smells

6.     rough: having a bumpy, knobby, or uneven surface

7.     batted: struck at something

8.     thumped: hit in a way that made a loud dull sound

9.     buzzing: making a low, humming sound

10.  rustle: a swishing or soft cracking sound