UNIT 25

L E S S O N 7

CONNECTIONS

WALT

We are learning to increase our knowledge of affixes, practice fluency, focus on vocabulary clues, identify adjectives, and comprehend readings to compare and contrast elemental differences.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?Understanding how to compare and

contrast will benefit you in future life and social skills.

PREFIXES

Identify each prefix in the following words.

PREFIXES

Postmark

PREFIXES

Rearrange

PREFIXES

Illiteracy

PREFIXES

Convert

PREFIXES

unimaginable

PREFIXES

Recede

PREFIXES

Proceed

PREFIXES

Postscript

PREFIXES

Imposter

PREFIXES

Emerge

PREFIXES

Produce

PREFIXES

Postdate

PREFIXES

Submerge

PREFIXES

Undecided

PREFIXES

Construct

SUFFIXES

Create an adjective by adding EITHER – ible OR –ive to the word on the slide.

SUFFIXES

FlexIBLE

SUFFIXES

Destruct IVE

SUFFIXES

Convert IBLE

SUFFIXES

CongestIVE

SUFFIXES

ExcessIVE

FLUENCYTurn to Fluency in the backPAGE R16Give your binder to your partner and take

theirs. Each will take turns reading as many

words as they can in one minutes. Their partner will write down errors and the last word on their sheets.

Using the count column – calculate the words read per minute.

Place that number on the chart on page R43

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/large-stopwatch/

IDIOM FOCUS

English learners are often confused by idioms because their meanings differ from the literal meanings of the words. Because idioms such as add fuel to the fire. Students need to know the meanings of common idioms.

Grab an idiom focus

At first glance

VOCABULARY

What do these words mean??Variations

KeenEnhance

ConcentricMassive

ArcExperimental Poetry

CIRCLES IN NATURETC: 7-12

CONCENTRIC CIRCLES

USE THE CLUESCIRCLES IN NATURETC: 7-12

Answers will Vary: Experimental poetry is a type of poetry that does something new with language and form. It does not have the set number of syllables or rhyme patterns of closed form poetry.

ADJECTIVES

Adjectives are words that describe nouns. They answer the questions: Which One, What Kind, and How Many.

CIRCLES IN NATURETC: 7-12

ADJECTIVESCIRCLES IN NATURETC: 7-12

Rainbow-scaled

RoundDark muscular

watchful

whirling

Complete the Comprehend and Take note items for Circles in Nature.

CIRCLES IN NATURETC: 7-12

What it would feel like to ride on the moon to a city in the sky

The moon’s a balloon; flowers pick themselves

Answers will vary: It creates places to pause while reading

The ever-growing circular ripples on a body of water caused by a jumping fish

All of the lines are lined up on the right margin, not the left margin; the phrase “out and out and out” steps down like a staircase.

The circles found in the rings of a tree trunk

Each one tells about a circular object in space

Small animals, bears, people, a cat

Answers will vary

PAGE 42

Complete page 42 by yourself.

This will be graded as evidence instead of practice.