Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms

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Read each sentence. Write the two words that are synonyms.

1. In that time, teaching was a common occupation, or job, for women.

2. She wanted sick people to have less pain and discomfort.

3. Elizabeth did not agree or accept that.

4. Elizabeth studied and learned medicine for two years.

5. They also ran a school to train, or teach, other women as doctors.

Synonyms are words that have almost the same meaning.

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Grammar: Capitalization of Proper Nouns

Write each sentence. Use capital

letters correctly.

1. We like to eat at brown’s sandwiches.

2. Very beany chili was on the menu.

3. My brother had the vita chocolate shake to drink.

4. My mom ordered the veggie variety salad.

5. Jill had her favorite dessert, crunchy ice cream.

• Proper nouns name special people, places, or things.

• Each important word in a proper noun begins with a

capital letter.

• The names of products are proper nouns.

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Comprehension and Fluency

Read the passage. Use the summarize strategy to tell the important events in your own words.

Dr. Elizabeth BlackwellToday many women are doctors, but that was

not always true. Many years ago, only men could be doctors. Elizabeth Blackwell changed that.

Early Life

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821. Her family moved to America when Elizabeth was eleven. When she got older, she became a teacher. In that time, teaching was a common occupation, or job, for women.

Becoming a Doctor

Then one of Elizabeth’s friends got very ill. She wa nted sick people to have less pain and discomfort. Elizabeth started thinking about ways to help people like her friend. She wanted to become a doctor.

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Elizabeth talked to men doctors who told her that women could not go to medical school. Elizabeth did not agree or accept that. She tried to get into a number of medical schools. She did not give up.

At last, she was allowed to study at a school in New York. Elizabeth studied and learned medicine for two years. In 1849, she became the first woman doctor in America.

A few years later, Elizabeth opened her own medical office in New York City. She asked two other women doctors to join her practice. One of these doctors was her sister, Emily. The doctors took care of sick women and children. They also ran a school to train, or teach, other women as doctors.

Elizabeth Blackwell helped people her whole life. She opened the door for women doctors.

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A. Reread the passage and answer the questions.

1. What happened first in Elizabeth Blackwell’s life?

2. What happened next?

3. What happened last?

B. Work with a partner. Read the passage aloud. Pay attention to how you pause and group words together. Stop after one minute. Fill out the chart.

Words Read –Number of

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First Read – =

Second Read – =

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Variant Vowels/Vowel Team Syllables

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The letters a, aw, au, augh, al, and ough can stand for the vowel sound you hear in call, dawn, sauce, caught, salt, and thought.

In a long word, the letters that make up a vowel team stay together in the same syllable.

B. Draw a line to divide each word into syllables. Circle the vowel team.

6. yellow 7. awful

8. pointer 9. caution

A. Read each word. Circle the word that has the same vowel sound as the first word. Write it on the line. Underline the letters that spell the vowel sound.

1. yawn bank fault

2. cause hawk rail

3. hall fought last

4. walk sale tall

5. taught day chalk

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Grammar: Contractions

A. Read each sentence. Form a contraction using the words in ( ).

1. (I am) thinking about Earth.

2. (She is) worried about resources.

3. (He is) a member of the Earth Savers Club.

4. (It is) a club that helps people recycle.

B. Replace the underlined contraction with a pronoun and a verb.

5. He’s an artist.

6. It’s made from plastic bags.

7. She’s helping in his shop.

8. I’m looking for some cardboard.

• A contraction is a short form of two words.

• An apostrophe (’) shows where one or more letters have

been left out.

• Some contractions are formed by joining a pronoun with a

verb.

I am I’m she is she’s he is he’s it is it’s

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Grammar: Contractions

Write the contraction for the underlined

words. Rewrite each sentence with the

contraction .

1. You are a good worker.

2. They are trying to collect old papers.

3. We are going to help them.

4. I think that you are very helpful.

5. He says we are almost done.

6. We will be done when they are all collected.

• A contraction is a short form of two words.

• An apostrophe (’) shows where letters have been left out.

we are we’re you are you’re they are they’re

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