In this theme students read about some of our world’s mysteries. In selections from the books Amelia Earhart: First Lady of Flight, The Girl Who Married the Moon, and Dinosaur Ghosts, students work with fact and opinion, making inferences, text organization, and the strategy monitor/clarify. In this theme we will begin to work on a set of strategies that support students as they read and as they discuss and develop higher level understandings of what they read.
Students are responsible for knowing the following vocabulary at the end of this theme:
Key Vocabulary: What Really Happened
course: direction taken
inspiration: a positive example that gives a person hope
accomplish: to succeed in doing something
hearth: the floor of a fireplace that usually extends in a room
sparkling: giving off flashes of light
phases: a change in the appearance that the moon or planet goes through each month
suspicious: having a feeling something unusual or wrong is going on
specimen: samples taken for scientific study
hypothesis: scientific suggestions based on what is known so far
theory: an idea that is based on evidence but cannot be stated as fact
monitor: to check on and regulate understanding
clarify: a strategy that helps repair meanings when it breaks down
homophone: words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings
exact verb: describes action more precisely than a common verb