We're finishing up our last week in Unit 2. Our week 5 theme is:
Extreme Weather. While we were brainstorming in class, many of you remembered
having to duck and cover for the severe thunderstorms and possible tornado a few years back. That was a memorable experience! Thankfully we all got home safely!
Several students mentioned the horrible tornado that hit our neighboring communities last December, and all the flooding that we have had the past few years in our area.
Many people around the country experience all
types of extreme weather: hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, tsunamis, etc. Not
only is extreme weather costly, it can also be deadly. Our expository story
this week is called Hurricanes. It tells us information and facts
about hurricanes, along with tips on what to do during and after a
hurricane.
Our lesson for this week is text structure. Authors
choose to organize their stories in many different ways, such as, sequence,
cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and description.
We are going to focus on description, which
defines or classifies information by describing its qualities or
characteristics. When reading, you should look for signal words: most
important, for example, to begin with, and bring. Or,
if an author is describing a process,
he/she may use sequence words, such as first, next, then,
and last.
Today we focused on our
vocabulary...here is our vocabulary power point and game-Enjoy!
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