Unit 5: Challenges Weekly Theme: Making Money Selection 1: Title: Boom Town Author: Sonia Levitin

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Unit 5 Challenges Weekly Theme Making
MoneySelection 1Title Boom TownAuthor
Sonia Levitin
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• Genre
• Historical Fiction a story in which fictional
  characters take part in actual historical events.
• Comprehension Strategy
• Summarize
• Comprehension Skill
• Chronological Order

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• Phonics
• decode compound words
• Spelling Focus
• Compound Words
• airplane, daytime, birthday, daylight, hairdo,
  notebook, birdhouse, barefoot, headlight,
  sometime, someone, newspaper, sidewalks,
  basketball, stagecoach
• Review Words states, inches, cities
• Challenge Words somebody, handwriting

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• Key Vocabulary
• sidewalks paths by the side of the
  street
• grumbled complained in a low voice
• traders people who buy and sell things
  as a business
• blossomed grew or developed
• wailed made a long and sad cry
• lonesome not often visited by people

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• Vocabulary Skills
• Compound Words
• These are words made up of two smaller words.
• You can often figure out the meaning of compound
  words by putting together the meanings of the
  smaller words. If that doesnt work, look up the
  word in the dictionary.

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• Word Work
• Grammar Skills
• Pronouns
• A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one
  or more nouns.
• A singular pronoun takes the place of a singular
  noun.
• A plural pronoun takes the place of a plural noun
  or more than one noun.