Fourth Grade:

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Fourth Grade Theme 1 Selection 5 This Land is
Your Land
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• Spelling Words with the Long u Sounds
• Long u has two sounds, /ü/ and /yü/.
• Long u has several spellings,
• u-consonant-e, ew, oo, ui,
• and u.
• The letter patterns u-consonant-e, ew, oo, ui,
  and u can stand for /ü/ or /yü/.

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Spelling Words with the Long u Sounds
u-consonant-e ew oo
huge threw mood
flute curfew smooth
excuse afternoon
confuse scooter
groove


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Spelling Words with the Long u Sounds
ui u
juice usual
cruise truth cruel pupil
bruise humor duty
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Challenge Words
oo u
igloo influence
aluminum nutrition accumulate

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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
usual
threw
truth
huge
bruise
afternoon
scooter
flute
cruel

juice
excuse
mood
smooth
cruise
pupil
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Spelling Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words?
groove
influence
confuse
aluminum
humor
nutrition

accumulate
duty
igloo
curfew
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• Teacher Read Aloud
• The Volcano Wakes
• by Patricia Lauber
• Activate Prior Knowledge
• Think about what you know about volcanoes.
• Share your ideas about what happens when a
  volcano erupts.

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• Purpose Setting
• Listen for details that will help you determine
  the main idea of the selection.
• What was the first sign that Mount St. Helen
  might erupt?
• 2. How was Mount St. Helen formed?
• Why did the people living nearby Mount St. Helen
  not fear it?
• Who considered Mount St. Helen dangerous?
• What is the main idea of the selection?

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Concept Vocabulary Web
eruptions
earthquake
volcano
How the land was formed
Plants and animals
The West
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• Comprehension Skill
• Main Idea and Details
• The topic is what a paragraph, part of an
  article, or a whole article is about
• The most important thing the author has to say
  about the topic is the main idea
• The little pieces of information telling more
  about the main idea are the supporting details

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• Comprehension Skill
• Main Idea and Details
• Main ideas tell the central ideas of an article.
• Use a graphic organizer to record the most
  important points of an article.
• Supporting details expand on the main idea,
  providing more information about it.

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Comprehension Skill Main Idea and
Details Topic Hiking in National
Parks Details Some parks have difficult trails
that lead hikers to waterfalls and other natural
wonders. Easy trails are also available. Use a
graphic organizer to identify the main idea.
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Main Idea Graphic Organizer
Topic Hiking in National Parks
Main Idea?
Supporting Detail Some parks have difficult
trails that lead hikers to waterfalls and other
natural wonders.
Supporting Detail Easy trails are also available.
What is the main idea in an article with this
topic and supporting details?
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Comprehension Skill Main Idea and Details What
is the main idea in an article with this topic
and details? Main Idea - National parks offer a
wide range of trails for hikers.
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Letters Home from Yosemite
Author Lisa Halvorsen
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More Books Written by Lisa Halvorsen
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Website Link
http//www.nps.gov/yose/
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Yosemite National Park is located in the State of
California
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Yosemite Park
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a wild region with few or no people living in it
wilderness

Efforts to protect the wilderness around Yosemite
began in 1864.
Synonyms back country forest outback




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to keep from harm or change protect
preserve
He fought hard to convince the U.S. government to
preserve Yosemite as a national park.

Synonyms maintain conserve safeguard




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a set of related living thing that share certain
characteristics and that can interbreed
species
Its the largest species of tree in the world and
it is found only on the western slopes of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains.


Synonyms group category kind




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a person who studies living things
naturalist

Our tour guide said that one of the first people
to visit this area was John Muir, a Scottish
naturalist.

Synonyms preservationist environmentalist tree-hu
gger

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land that goes up or down at an angle
slopes

Its the largest species of tree in the world and
it is found only on the western slopes of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Synonyms bank ascend descend

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a great mass of ice that moves very slowly down a
mountain or along a valley, or spreading very
slowly over a land area
glacier

This morning on our way to Glacier Point we saw a
black bear and her two cubs.

Synonyms ice field

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able to impress the mind, feelings, conscience
impressive

It seems that wherever we look, theres something
bigger, higher, or more impressive that before.

Synonyms imposing awesome

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Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the
Words?
wilderness
preserve
species
naturalist
glacier
slopes
impressive

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
slopes wilderness glacier species
impressive preserve naturalist
Draw! Draw! Draw!
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• Free Association
• When I say a word, you write down any words you
  can think of that remind you of that word.
• For example
• The word is school
• learning
• Science
• pencils
• Reading
• Math
• teachers
• P.E.
• education

1. wilderness
2. impressive
3. naturalist
4. glacier
5. preserve
6. species
7. slopes
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• Classifying
• Place the following words in categories
• wilderness preserve
  species
• naturalist slopes
  glacier
• impressive
• Decide the names of the categories.
• Determine how many categories.
• Determine which words go in which categories.
• After classifying the words, write a paragraph
  explaining each of the categories and why
  certain words go in a particular category.

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Can You Find the Context Clues?
1. I think that Mt. McKinley in Alaska is the
most _________ mountain in America..
2. There are many different _______ of plants and
animals living in Yosemite Park.
3. It is important to have national parks to
___________ our most beautiful places.
4. The skier did not expect to find such steep
_______.
5. People who hike in the ____________ need
to take a map and plenty of water.
6. The mountain hiker found a huge field of ice
and realized that he had come across a
__________.
7. I hope to become a ___________ someday so I
need to learn all I can about plants and
animals.
wilderness, preserve, species, naturalist,
slopes, glacier, impressive
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Synonym Search Match the vocabulary words on the
left to the correct synonyms on the right. Some
vocabulary words have more than one synonym.
Ready, set, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wilderness
a. group f. kind k. category p. conserve
b. back country g. forest l. safeguard q. preservationist
c. maintain h. environmentalist m. ice field r. impressed
d. imposing i. ascend n. tree-hugger s. outback
e. bank j. awesome o. descend
preserve
species
naturalist
slopes
glacier
impressive
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Word Association Challenge

1. Which word goes with climbing? Why?

2. Which word goes with sightseeing? Why?
3. Which word goes with erosion ? Why?
4. Which word goes with hiking ? Why?
5. Which word goes with protection? Why?
6. Which word goes with saving the earth? Why?
7. Which word goes with labeling? Why?
Word
Bank wilderness preserve species
naturalist slopes glacier
impressive

Some words can be used more than once. Can you figure out which ones?

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Tell Me What You Know

• Describe something you saw that was most
  impressive to you. Why?
• 2. Explain how a glacier helps to form mountains.
• 3. List different species of trees. Which ones
  are found near here?
• 4. Describe all the things that you would take
  with you on a
• hike in the wilderness.
• 5. If you were a naturalist, what things in
  nature do you feel
• are most important to preserve? Why?
• 6. Do you think it is important to keep
  snowmobiles off the
• slopes of mountains located in a national
  park? Why or
• why not?