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Grade 3 Unit 6 - Coggle Diagram
Grade 3 Unit 6
Story 1
Genre: Myth/Drama
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Drama
- Story told through dialogue
- Performed by actors
- Divided into scenes
- Includes stage directions: what should the actors and how they move
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Theme
Author's message in the story
Example: Bragging and too much pride can lead to trouble ("Athena and Arachne")
Make Predictions
Use story details to guess what will happen next.Prediction:
- Arachne will beat Athena (In the end, this is not true.)
- Mama won't let her children go outside.
Root Word
The simplest form of a wordExamples:
- "read" from "reread"
- "friend" from "friendly"
- "heat" from "preheat"
Prefix
A word part added to the beginning of a root word
- "un" from "unbelievable" - not
- "pre" from "preview" - before
- "re" from "rebuild" - again
Story 3
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Problem and Solution
- Problem: something that is wrong
- Solution: how is the problem fixed
Example:
- Problem: Lovell wanted to be an fly rockets.
- Solution: Lovell became an astronaut and traveled to the moon.
Genre: Biography
- Tells the true story of a real person's life
- Written by another person
- Includes text features (e.g. keywords, photographs, and captions)
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Greek and Latin Roots
- Word parts from Greek or Latin
Examples:
- "luna" (moon) from "lunar"
- "astro" (star) from "astronomy" / "astronaut"
- "naut" (ship) from "astronaut"
Vowel Team
Two vowels put together to make a sound
Examples:
- "ea" from "reading"
- "ai" from "detail"
- "oa" from "presoak"
Vowel Team Syllable
The syllable with a vowel teamExamples:
- "read" from "reading
- "tail" from "detail"
- "soak" from "presoak"
Story 5
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem
Example:
We roughed it at Old Piney Park,
With tents and hot dogs after dark.
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Rhyming Poem
A poem that has rhymesRhymes
Words that have the same ending sound
- "star" and "car"
- "dog" and "log"
- "moon" and "spoon"
Rhythm
Beat of the poem.
You can find the rhythm by calling or tapping when you are reading the poem.
The rhythm is controlled by syllables.
Story 4
Compare and Contrast
Show how two things are alike or different
- Compare: alike (signal words: both, alike, same)
- Contrast: different (signal word: different)
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Context Clues
Words or phrases that help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar wordExamples:
- "Almost all butterflies migrate, or move to different areas."
- "Butterflies are cold-blooded insects. They are hot when the weather is hot and cold when the weather is cold."
- "Just like the Pygmy Blue, Monarch butterflies sip nectar from flowers.
R-Controlled Vowel
A vowel sound that is changed by an "r" (e.g. "ar," "or," "ir," "er," and "ur")Examples:
- "ar" from "cellar"
- "or" from "author"
- "er" from later
Story 2
Genre: Historical Fiction
- A made-up story that takes place in the past
- Has illustrations that show the setting and how people live and help create a mood
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Idiom
A group of words that mean something different from each word in the phrase.Example:
- "a piece of cake" = very easy
- "give someone a hand" = help someone
- "under the weather" = feeling sick
- "facing the music" = trouble
Suffix
A word part added to the end of a root wordExamples:
- "ing" from "singing" - sing (progressive)
- "ful" from "cheerful" - full of cheer
- "less" from "helpless" - *without help
- "ly" from "wisely" - in a wise way