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Reading Strategies and Skills

Unit 3 Week 3
Test Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
-Informational texts include ideas and details that may
be unfamiliar. Finding and understanding key details is
important as they read.
-You can summarize to check your understanding, to
rethink what you have read, and to remember main
ideas.
- Ask yourself about what a section of a text is about.
Look for important details in the passage to decide
what central idea the details have in common.
- To summarize, you have to briefly restate the most
important ideas in your own words and in a logical
order.
-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook pages
123-134. Also refer to The RWW book page 198.

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction

Key characteristics of Narrative Nonfiction include:
-Tells about real people, places, and events.
Unlike other information text, it uses story
form to describe true experiences and
sequence of real events.
-May tell the story of a region's economic,
presenting facts about ways people hear and
use money.
-It usually expresses the author's point of view,
or perspective, through a particular voice or
tone. This should how he or she feels about
the topic.
- For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook page
126. Also refer to The RWW book page 200.

Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes and Suffixes

-Knowing the meaning of common prefixes and
suffices can help you figure out the meaning of an
unfamiliar word.
Prefix
ReUn-

Meaning
Back; again
Not; opposite

Suffix
-ity, -ty
-ful

Meaning
Quality of;
state of
Full of

-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook

page 127. Also refer to The RWW book p. 201 and
the Word Study Center.

Comprehension Skill: Sequence

-Sequence is one type of text structure, or what the authors

organize ideas in a selection. Sequence refers to a series of steps

or events placed in time order.
-To think about sequence in informational text, you should look
for steps that occur over time. Ask:
-What happens first? Next? What then? Finally?
Identifying the steps in the sequence can help you understand
how the outcome was achieved and what the author's message
is.
-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook pages 123-125.
Also refer to The RWW book page 199.

Vocabulary Menu Homework

abundant impoverished ingenuity
sharecropper solitude unearthed

productivity
windswept

To get an A, complete 3 of the following,

To get a B, complete 2 of the following;
To get a C, complete 1 of the following;
To get a F, complete 0 of the following
1. Write a sentence using each of the vocabulary
words.
2. Make a word search puzzle using all of the
vocabulary words (list the words at the
bottom).
3. Define all the words.
4. Make a crossword puzzle using all of the
vocabulary words (with clues for each word).
5. Create some type of review game with the
vocabulary words.
6. Create a vocabulary quiz (and answer key) with
the vocabulary words.
7. Create vocabulary flashcards.

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