Messages by the Mile By: Margery Facklam

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Messages by the MileBy Margery Facklam
Open Court Level 4 / Unit 5 / Lesson 1/ pp.
416-421 Melissa Lape Wilson
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infrasonic use context clues

• Its sound is infrasonic, meaning it is below the
  level human can hear.
• Earthquakes make infrasonic sounds that humans
  can feel, but cannot hear.
• Infrasonic- having a sound so low that people
  cannot hear it.

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Conversations use context clues

• All the conversations were short.
• The sisters had many conversations in which they
  talked about their childhood.
• conversations - exchanges of
• observations, opinions, or ideas

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melody use context clues

• The Paynes heard the
• male humpbacks beautiful, long melody.
• That song is hard to sing because of its
  complicated melody.
• melody - a series of musical tones

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choruses use context clues

• We depend on rhymes and repeating choruses to
  help us remember long songs and poems.
• These songs have choruses that repeat five or six
  times.
• choruses - part of a song that are repeated after
  each verse

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vibrations use context clues

• It also felt like the vibrations from the
  whales infrasonic songs.
• The vibrations of the foot massager tickled my
  feet.
• vibrations - slight, rapid movements

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Each of these words has the sound /hw/ spelled wh

• whale
• whistles
• while
• whenever
• whiskers
• wharf
• wheel
• where

Place the palm of your hand in front of your
mouth. Say the word Whale and Was. You should
feel more breath on the palm of you hand when you
say whale.
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Each of these words contains the long e sound.
Identify the long e spelling in each word.

• mystery
• eerie
• complete
• erupt
• these
• between
• believe

• mystery

• eerie

• complete

• erupt

• these

• between

• believe

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Each of these words shows possession
Identify the singular and plural possessive.

• worlds
• humpbacks
• elephants
• scientists

• singular

• singular

• plural

• plural

The apostrophe for the plural possessive comes
after the plural ending.
How are you able to distinguish between the
singular and plural possessive?
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Each of these words contain the prefixes re-
(again) and un- (not)
Identify the root words and the prefix and define
the words.

• recount
• untamed
• rewrite
• recall
• untied

• re-

• count again

• un-

• not tamed

• re-

• write again

• re-

• call again

• un-

• not tied

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As soon as one whale sings a new song, the other
whales learn it.

• Identify the pronoun in the sentence.
• it
• What noun does it replace?
• song

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How whales make their songs is still a mystery.

• Many interrogative sentences begin with the
  adverb how, but in this sentence the word how is
  used as a conjunction meaning, the way or manner
  in which.

• Which question does this statement answer?
• How do whales make their sounds?

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The humpbacks songs change each season.

• Identify the subject
• songs
• Identify the verb
• change

• Which word in the sentence shows possession?
• Humpbacks
• Is it a singular or plural possessive?
• singular

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Untamed elephants roam freely in the Selous Game
Reserve.

• Which word contains the prefix un-?
• Untamed
• Use the prefix un-(not) and the root word to
  figure out the meaning.
• Not tamed

• Why is the Selous Game Reserve capitalized?
• It is a proper noun naming a particular place.

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