1. Where do creative ideas come from?Click to listen to story.

2. SmallGroupTimer

3. Vocabulary & Amazing Words: Arcade Games Jigword Matchword Speedword Wordsearch Word Web Spelling City-Voc. Spelling City-Amazing Spelling Words: Speedword Word Web Quia Games Spelling City High Frequency Words Fill-in-the Blank Spelling City Review Games

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7. Big Question:Where do creative ideas come from? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

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10. Today we will learn about: • Amazing Words • Comparative endings –er, -est • Fact and Opinion • Verbs: am, is, are, was, were • Writing a review

12. Writing on Demand Write for 3 minutes about sources that give you creative ideas! Do your best writing! Use your best handwriting!

13. Click to listen to a song about what you can make out of a peanut.

14. Anchored Talk

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16. excel • ex – cel • When you excel at something, you’re better than most people at it. • Kayla excels at math. • Inventors excel in creative thinking.

17. process • proc – ess • When you process something, you prepare it by following a set of steps. • My raincoat has been processed to make it waterproof. • People process peanuts into many things, including shaving cream and shampoo.

18. research • re – search • Research means a very careful investigation or hunting for facts. • I did a lot of research to make sure the facts in my report about weather were correct. • People found many ways to use peanuts through research.

19. Practice! Complete these sentences!

23. Comparative Endings • joking - dried • What do you know about reading these words? • Both has a base word, an ending and a spelling change. • What are the endings? • What are the spelling changes? • Today you’ll learn about the endings –er and –est.

24. Comparative Endings • funnier - funniest • The base word in these words is funny. What spelling changes do you see? • To blend these words, read one chunk, or syllable, at a time and then blend the chunks together: • fun, ni, er, funnier; fun, ni, est, funniest

25. Comparative Endings • We add –er to words when we compare two things. • My joke is funnier than yours.

26. Comparative Endings • We add –est to words when we compare three things: • Kelly told the funniest joke of all.

27. Comparative Endings • Chunk the word into parts, the base word and the ending. • See if the base word has a spelling change. • Read the chunks from left to right and then blend all the chunks together.

28. Comparative Endings • slow, slower, slowest • big, bigger, biggest • polite, politer, politest • fluffy, fluffier, fluffiest • sunny, sunnier, sunniest • long, longer, longest • mad, madder, maddest • fine, finer, finest

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44. hottest rarest lovelier biggest braver funniest maddest tamest healthiest fatter later sunnier thinner safest scarier Comparative Endings

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46. Read together! Take turns, choral, back to desk read and practice words.

47. Pretest! Spelling words. I’ll say, you say! I’ll give you a sentence.We will clap, count, write sounds!

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50. Read-Aloud Louis Braille