Vocabulary
This word means the worth of something in money.
What is value?
Flower, kitten ----> cat, construction of the new school.
What is progress?
This letter makes the c sound soft.
Example: Piece
What is silent e?
There are several features in the school. Name at least two.
What is a computer lab, science lab, community garden, Internet, soccer field, track field, cafeteria?
This type of connection can be experienced by someone and is relatable to them.
What is text-to-self?
Something noticeable about a thing or person.
What is features?
Money, toys, gifts.
What is value?
The word hug is this type of syllable.
Hint: Open or closed.
What is closed?
What are trailers?
This type of connection is compared to another story.
A place or thing that something comes from (provides).
What is a source?
What is result?
The word fur is this type of syllable.
What is an r-controlled syllable?
This is the the main idea of The Langston Times newspaper article.
What is the opening of the new school (Langston Elementary)?
What is text-to-world?
Movement toward a goal or toward completion?
What is progress?
Mayor, the President of the United States, Governor of KS.
What are officials?
The word peace has this type of syllable.
What is a d syllable (digraph).
This person was interviewed by a reporter and watched the progress of the school being built.
Who is Victor?
Example: In Victor's Journal, we read about the opening ceremony for the school. That's the same event that is discussed in The Langston Times. This is a connection from two stories.
What is a text-to-text connection?
To show or display.
Hint: Mayor Lopez did this with the Langston Elementary sign at the beginning of the article.
What is revealing?
Sunlight, water, honey from bees, wind.
what are sources?
This is the open syllable.
Word: re- cite
What is re?
This is the type of genre The Langston Times article is written in.
Example: Bobby watched a movie about a little boy attending a new school.
In this connection, a person is relating the text to an experience they had.
What is a text-to-self connection?