Check Your Progress

1. Check Your Progress Animal Habitats

2. Fact and Opinion • A fact is a statement that can be proven true or false. • An opinion is a statement that tells what someone thinks or feels. It cannot be proven. I am going to show you statements and you hold up the card telling me if it is a fact or an opinion.

3. Fact or Opinion Seals give birth to their pups on land.

4. Fact or Opinion Most newborn pups are covered with a fine, soft fur.

5. Fact or Opinion Harbor seals are my favorite type of seal.

6. Fact or Opinion Seals live both on land and in the water.

7. Fact or Opinion Watching seals underwater is better than watching them on land.

8. Fact or Opinion It is fun to watch seals swim.

9. Fact or Opinion Killer whales, sharks, and polar bears are a seal’s main natural enemies.

10. Fact or Opinion It is sad when a seal gets caught in an oil spill.

11. Fact or Opinion Walruses are the strangest looking animals in the sea.

12. Fact or Opinion Fish and squid are the primary food of fur seals.

13. Syllabication • Divide compound words between the two words that form it. • VCCV pattern • Base words are divided between them and their added endings.

14. Divide these words into syllables. windmill bobcat lonely digging gathering making

16. It’s time for . . . These are . . . We use them for . . . Vocabulary Words we want to know Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

17. companion: friend

18. refresh: to make like new again

19. cherished: well loved

20. furrows: long, narrow grooves cut in the ground

21. dwellers: people or animals who live in a place

22. drudgery: hard, boring, or unpleasant work

23. shunned: avoided on purpose

24. Making Judgments • Active readers form opinions about what characters do by asking “Is this fair?” or “Was that a good decision?” • Readers think of other ways to solve a character’s problem and weigh the pros and cons of each solution.

25. Making Judgments about Alejandro’s Gift Do you think making the watering hole is a good decision?

26. You are Great Readers!

27. Check Your Progress • Animal Habitats

28. It’s time for . . . These are . . . We use them for . . . Vocabulary Words we want to know Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

29. companion: friend

30. refresh: to make like new again

31. cherished: well loved

32. Prefixes • un- means “not” • pre- means “before” • re- means “again”

33. Suffixes • -ly means “in a way that is” • -ful means “being full of” • -er means “someone who”

35. Compare and Contrast We will be beginning a comparison chart of the animals in Alejandro’s Gift to the animals in The Living Desert.

39. PB pg. 57 & 58

40. You are Great Readers!

41. Check Your Progress • Animal Habitats

42. Endings –er and -est • Add –er to an adjective to compare two persons, places, or things. It adds the meaning “more” to the base word. • Add –est to compare three or more persons, places, or things. It adds the meaning “most” to the base word.

43. Tell what each word means and use it in a sentence. cooler smallest longer coldest younger warmer darkest

44. It’s time for . . . These are . . . We use them for . . . Vocabulary Words we want to know Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!

45. saguaro: a kind of tall cactus

46. environment: the place where animals, plants, or people live

47. moisture: wetness

48. tenants: people or animals who live in a place

49. Compare and Contrast We will be beginning a comparison chart of the animals in Alejandro’s Gift to the animals in The Living Desert.