2. LITERARY WORDS:
Onomatopoeia: The use of words whose sound is related to the
word’s meaning .
Zas! Boom! Splash!
Imagery: The use of words to create word pictures. These
pictures, or images, help the reader imagine how something
looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes.
Example: The river becomes an angry, rushing, mud-colored
flood….
Personification: Giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing.
Example: Metallic jaws on sanitation trucks gulp and
masticate….
3. ACADEMIC WORDS:
Contrast
Identify
Similar
Specific
The poems contrast life in the mountains with life by the
seashore.
I can identify the source of that noise. It’s a dove.
The sound a dog makes is similar to the sound a coyote makes.
Some of the specific sounds of the city include sirens, auto
horns, and shouts.
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4. Spelling Long Vowels:
Long a Long e Long i Long o Long u
Brakes Sleepless Spine Lonely Mute
Strains Beat High Moan Youth
Day Believe Mind Shows View
Break Story Why Cold Cue
key community
Add these words to the table in the correct place:
Flight trace groan rescue creaking music whine rains
beetle smoke.
5. READING STRATEGY: PREDICT.
Look at the headings and ask yourself, “What will this
section be about?”
Look for clues in the illustrations.
Think about what you already know and your own
experiences.
As you read, check to see if your prediction is correct.
If it isn’t, make a new prediction.
6. PREPOSITIONS OF LOCATION AND
DIRECTION:
WHERE EXAMPLES
AT They stayed at a big hotel.
IN Trees grow in the canyons.
ON Coyotes wait on the hillside.
ABOVE His hotel room was thirty floors above the street.
BY A cow stood by the fence.
OUTSIDE Trash cans rattle outside restaurants.
7. IN WHAT
DIRECTION
EXAMPLES
Down The water flows down the riverbed.
Into Cattle are walking into the pasture.
Across A beetle is scurrying across the ground.
From The sound of music came from the opposite direction.
To The dog ran to the barn.
Toward A jet plane was flying toward the city.
