What are the risks in helping others? In Hold the Flag High, the main character

risked his life to keep the flag from touching the ground and helped his fellow soldier.

He risked his life so that his fellow soldiers would not see the flag fall.

Firefighters risk their lives when they rescue people from burning buildings.

Can you think of others that risk something to help others?

Comparison and contrast are ways of looking at objects and thinking about how they are alike and different.

For instance, all of these items are alike because they are kinds of food, but there are many ways that they are different. For instance, they belong to different food groups. Some must be cooked before eating, and some can be eaten raw.

When you write comparison and contrast, you will pay attention to these kinds of details.

Inferring is a strategy used before, during and after reading. Predicting is a part of inferring. Inferences need to be based on references in the text and then mixed with background knowledge. Students need to be taught how to infer what words mean, the setting(s) of the story, the answers to the questions the reader doesn't understand, to what pronouns refer, how to use text to understand characters, fact from opinion, explanations for events, and the underlying message from the author. As we continue to grow as proficient readers, we devote 6 weeks to studying inferring (and how it integrates with all strategies) around the seventh month of school.

Good readers draw inferences from text. Proficient readers use their prior knowledge the information from the text to draw conclusions, make critical judgments, and form unique interpretations from text. Inference may occur in the form of conclusions, predictions or new ideas.

The following table lists some common Greek rootsGreek root Basic meaning Example words

-anthrop- human misanthrope, philanthropy, anthropomorphic

-chron- time anachronism, chronic, chronicle, synchronize, chronometer

-dem- people democracy, demography, demagogue, endemic, pandemic

-morph- form amorphous, metamorphic, morphology

-path- feeling, suffering empathy, sympathy, apathy, apathetic, psychopathic

-pedo-, -ped- child, children pediatrician, pedagogue-philo-, -phil- having a strong affinity or

love forphilanthropy, philharmonic, philosophy

-phon- sound polyphonic, cacophony, phonetics

A noun, in English grammar, is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, idea, or concept. There are more nouns in the English Language than any other kind of words. For more information and examples visit What is a Noun? It covers formation of plural nouns, common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, collective nouns, compound nouns, the functions of nouns in sentences and more.

Main Verbs Helping Verbs In a verb phrase the

main verb names the action .

The main verb is to tell you the action going on. Ex: running, jumping, or throwing.

The helping verb helps tell the time of the action.

Helping verb is to support the main verb . Ex: has or have.

Main and helping verbs are helpful because they help you understand the sentence better by showing the action going on and telling you when the action happened.

Ex. She is running down the hill.

Helping –Is, is telling you if she is running down the hill in present tense or already ran down the hill .

Main-Running is telling you what she is doing; she is running.

Main and helping verbs are helpful because they help you understand the sentence better by showing the action going on and telling you when the action happened.

Ex. She is running down the hill.

Helping –Is, is telling you if she is running down the hill in present tense or already ran down the hill .

Main-Running is telling you what she is doing; she is running.

Main and helping verbs are helpful because they help you understand the sentence better by showing the action going on and telling you when the action happened.

Ex. She is running down the hill.

Helping –Is, is telling you if she is running down the hill in present tense or already ran down the hill .

Main-Running is telling you what she is doing; she is running.

Verb phrases consist of one main verb and one or more helping verbs (also called auxiliary verbs).

Verb phrases consist of one main verb and one or more helping verbs (also called auxiliary verbs).

What is the main verb and the helping verb in the following sentence? Madison was running down a hill.

Helping- Was Main- Running

Name three helping verbs