A _______ is a word that sounds the same, but has different spellings and meanings.
What is a homophone.
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Name the two main characters in the story.
What is Balto & Gunner Kasson.
100
Name a character from the story.
What is Taro, Jiro-San, Yuko
100
A homograph is a word that is spelled the same, but pronounced differently. Give an example of a homograph.
What is wind/wind, read/read, close/close, tail/tale
100
This vocabulary words means to lead others to where they need to go.
ex: Balto_________his team to safety.
What is guided
200
Connect these two sentences to make a compound sentence.
Dogs are fun to play with. Dogs make great pets.
What is Dogs are fun to play with, and dogs make great pets.
200
When we drew our graph, we listed how dogs help people. List two ways dogs help people.
What is protection, they play with us, herd animals, guide people
200
Who were Jiro-San's "old friends" in the story?
Who are the turtles.
200
We use this skill when we go back and read something again to understand information better.
What is rereading.
200
This vocabulary word describes large piles of snow that build up by the wind.
What are drifts.
300
Give an example of a homophone.
Answers may vary: What is sea/see, deer/dear, two/too/to, son/sun
300
Why did the people in Nome need help?
A deadly sickness broke out and they had no medicine to treat it.
300
What was one of the problems in the story?
People were leaving litter on the beach.
300
Before the story "Turtle Bay" we talked about the author's purpose of a story. What are the three purposes we discussed? Hint: PIE
What is persuade, inform, entertain
300
The _________ is a machine used to send coded messages from one place to another.
Hint: this was used in the story of Balto.
What is the telegraph.
400
A synonym compares two of the SAME things. (hot/warm)
Give me an example of an antonym.
Answers may vary. What is dark/light, hot/cold, big/small
400
What tough choice was Gunner faced with while leading the dogs?
He must decide whether or not to continue the journey.
400
How did the characters in the story help the turtles?
They swept the beach to keep the beach safe for Jiro-San's friends.
400
Describe one strategy to use if you come across a word you don't know when you are reading.
Skip it, look for other words you know in the sentence, does it make sense? , look for parts of the word you DO know.
400
This word describes trash left on the ground.
Lately, people have been leaving ________on the beach.
What is litter.
500
We discussed words that have silent sounds. Name one word from each of the sound categories. ph, gh, kn, wr.
Answers may vary.
ph-phone
gh-laugh
kn-knot
wr-wrestle
500
Name one of the problems in the story and how it was solved.
People of Nome were sick->They need medicine
Snowstorm kept planes & trains from traveling->dogsleds delivered medicine
Gunner couldn't see->Balto lead the team by smell
When the team was traveling across the ice, it cracked->Balto lead them around the ice
500
Who was described as old and wise in the story?
Who is Jiro-San.
500
We discussed classifying(the big picture) and categorizing (breaking things down into smaller groups or categories)
Draw a chart of the two groups we can break our class down into.
What is Our class--boys and girls, students/adults
500
Name one vocabulary word we have discussed in this unit and write the definition.