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Fifth Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 5, Week 5, “Ghost towns of the American West”

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days.  (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the “weekly study skills” on the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.)  You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Who goes seeking adventure and why?	What adventures helped drive westward expansion?
Word Analysis (These are the word parts we are studying in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Morphemes	Greek word parts: autograph, barometer, centimeter, diameter, graphic, kilometer, meteorology, paragraph, pedometer, phonograph, photocopy, photographer, speedometer, telecommute, telegraph, telephone, telescope, television, thermometer
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Lesson/Tested Vocabulary (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
claim, deserted, exploit, exuberance, frontier, migration, miners, panning, sluice box, trailblaze	economic, independence, overrun, scrawled, vacant
Handwriting Practice (Students may practice the writing of these letters in manuscript and cursive this week.)
Focus on Letter Size: Capital J, Q,T, F