Unit 4-Week 2 Day 1Theme Question: Why do people study space?Focus Questions:Week 1: What patterns and cycles do we find in space?Week 2: How did people of the past explain objects in the night sky?Week 3: How do people view space today?Week 4: How night space be a part of our future?

Theme Vocabulary

Theme vocabulary • lunar

Reading

Preview and Predict•Pp. 210-215

Purpose• Find answers to the Theme

Question.

Inflected Endings –ed, -ing -ed -ing

Unit 4-Week 2 Day 2Theme Question: Why do people study space?Focus Questions:Week 1: What patterns and cycles do we find in space?Week 2: How did people of the past explain objects in the night sky?Week 3: How do people view space today?Week 4: How night space be a part of our future?

Theme Vocabulary

Theme vocabulary •telescope•revolve•gravity•reflect•rotate• lunar

Make Connections

Text-to self Text-to-Text Text-to-World

Background Knowledge

Exploring Space

Reading

Preview and Predict•Chapter 4 (pp. 216-222)

Purpose• Find answers to the Theme

Question.• Set your own purpose.

Unit 4-Week 2 Day 3Theme Question: Why do people study space?Focus Questions:Week 1: What patterns and cycles do we find in space?Week 2: How did people of the past explain objects in the night sky?Week 3: How do people view space today?Week 4: How night space be a part of our future?

Make Analogies• Analogies show a relationship between two words. In many

analogies, one word describes a characteristic, function, part, or position of the other word.

Hot/sunMagnify/telescopePlanet/solar systemRevolve/Earth

Distinguish Fact from Opinion• Fact• Pieces of information that can be proved.

• Opinion• Statements of belief or personal ideas• Strong opinions are backed up with facts.

Fact of Opinion?I believe there is life on other planets.Scientists are exploring whether life could exist on other

planets.

Distinguish Fact from Opinion

Fact of Opinion?

• On July 20, 1969, two Americans became the first people to walk on the moon.

• Walking on the moon is the most important achievement in human history.

• I think walking on the moon is neat.• One day, we may end up living on the moon.

Text Features • Enhance information and help readers understand concepts

better.• Page through Exploring Space and point out text features.

• Index• A detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics in an

informational text.• What’s in an index?

Reading

Reread• Pp. 210-222

Purpose• Focus on how text features help you

understand important concepts and help you answer the Theme Question.

Word StudyComparatives and Superlatives

Comparatives:More and less are used with words that have two or more syllables to compare two things.

Superlatives:Most and least are used to compare words that have two or more syllables that compare more than two things.

Write sentences using the following words combined with more, most, less, and/or least:

Expensive interesting hilarious

Unit 4-Week 2 Day 4Theme Question: Why do people study space?Focus Questions:Week 1: What patterns and cycles do we find in space?Week 2: How did people of the past explain objects in the night sky?Week 3: How do people view space today?Week 4: How night space be a part of our future?

Theme Vocabulary

Lunar

Make Connections

Text-to self Text-to-Text Text-to-World

Reading

Reread/Skim and ScanChapters 3 and 4

Purpose• Find text evidence to answer the

Theme Question: Why do people study space?

Why do people study space?Chapters 3 and 4

Page # Text Evidence

Word StudyComparatives and Superlatives

Comparatives:More and less are used with words that have two or more syllables to compare two things.Superlatives:Most and least are used to compare words that have two or more syllables that compare more than two things.

Write sentences using the following words combined with more, most, less, and/or least:

Humorous, carefully, easily, difficult, gracefully, swiftly, skillfully, interesting