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Reading Strategies and Skills

Unit 2 Week 4
Test Date: October 21, 2014

Comprehension Strategy: Make
Predictions
-Making predictions when you read will help set a
purpose for reading and increases your understanding
of the text. You can confirm, or agree with your
prediction, or revise, change your prediction, based on
new information as you read.
- Use context clues, descriptive details, pictures, and
events.

-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook pages
83-84. Also refer to The RWW book page 140.
Vocabulary Menu Homework

benefit deftly derision eaves
expertise impudence legacy symmetry
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.

Comprehension Skill: Point of View
-In fiction, a narrator tells the story. Who the narrator is
determines the story's point of view.
-When a narrator who is not one of the characters tells the story,
the story has a third-person point of view.
-Third-person point of view lets readers know what each
character is thinking

Point of View Pronouns
Third person He, she, they, them, theirs
-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook pages 83-85.
Also refer to The RWW book page 141.

Genre: Historical Fiction
- The Story is made up- it is fictitious
may happen in a real time and place from
history
may refer to real characters from history
man include flashbacks to earlier times in the
characters lives
usually includes dialogue
it is written to entertain, but also informs the
reader about the past events.
Dialogue- characters speak for themselves.
Include quotation marks (")
Flashback- events that happened before the
current plot events.
- For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook page
86. Also refer to The RWW book page 142.
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek and Latin
Suffixes
Suffixes are the word parts attached to the end of
the base words.
-common suffixes can help you define and
unfamiliar word.
Suffix Meaning Example
-ion, -tion, the state of education
-ize to make summarize
-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook
page 87. Also refer to The RWW book p. 143 and
the Word Study Center.
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