home-grown butterflies focus wall

Unit 6:Achievements

Weekly Theme:Raising Butterflies

Selection 5:Title: Home-Grown ButterfliesAuthor: Deborah Churchman

Genre:Nonfiction Article– gives information about real people, places,

or things

Comprehension Strategy:

Monitor Comprehension

Comprehension Skill: Relevant details: Draw Conclusions

Phonics:

Decode Words with Accented Syllables

Spelling Focus:

because, rubber, about, puddle, alive, behind, before, around, better, attract, kettle, hammer, attend, tickle, people

Review Words: peaceful, helpless, carefully

Challenge Words: believe, beaver

Key Vocabulary:disappear – to stop existing or go away

completely

protect – keep from harm

harming – doing damage to or hurting

involved – taking part in

supply – amount available for use

capture – to catch and hold

enclosure – 1. a structure that keeps things closed in 2. something included

Vocabulary Skills:

Dictionary: Multiple-Meaning Words

If you cannot figure out a word’s meaning with context clues or word parts, look up the word in the dictionary.

Some words have several meanings. Try each meaning in the sentence to find the one that makes sense.

Word Work:

Grammar Skills:Sentence Combining with Adjectives and Adverbs

Two sentences that have the same noun can be combined by adding an adjective to one sentence.

Two sentences that tell about the same action can be combined by adding an adverb to one sentence.

**When you combine sentences, look for words that repeat.