Reading BLOCK 2 ~ 1/23

Today students started a new story.  We will be reading An Island Scrapbook.  Students took notes on the genre - Narrative Nonfiction.  Next they had to find the definitions of the vocabulary words.  

An Island Scrapbook

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction

• Presents information in the context of a real-life story
• Presents interesting facts about a topic, usually in time order
• May include photographs, illustrations, charts, and other visuals

~ Vocabulary ~

1. Naturalist
2. Barrier
3. Parallel
4. Teeming
5. Emerge
6. Fireball

We also began our notes on roots, prefixes, and suffixes.  

Homework:

~ Finish vocabulary definitions.  Use your vocabulary words to write a        

   paragraph.  

~ AR - Do 25-30 minutes of reading tonight.