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Grade 5 Unit 1: Finding the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words

• When encountering unfamiliar words, learn techniques to "unlock" them.
• The unit will discuss context clues and dictionaries, along with other strategies, to unlock meanings.
• The unit aims to teach inferring meaning, identifying special words, and using dictionaries/thesauruses.

Lesson 1: Compound, Affixed, Blended, and Clipped Words

• This lesson focuses on deciphering unfamiliar words through word composition and context clues.
• Context clues: Information aiding in the understanding of an unfamiliar word.
• Synonyms: Words with similar meanings.
• Antonyms: Words with opposite meanings.
• Definition: Statement directly explaining a word's meaning.
• Exemplification: Use of examples to clarify a concept.

Compound Words

• The word bookstore comprises "book" (printed work) and "store" (building selling things).
• bookstore bookstore means a store where books are sold
• Sometimes, the new word meaning differs entirely from the original words.
• software software means programs used by a computer
• You can use context clue if a word is in a sentence, or you may use the dictionary

Affixed Words

• Affixes: Syllables added to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix) to alter a word meaning.
• indefinite indefinite means not clearly expressed or defined
• misspell misspell means to form letters incorrectly

Blended Words

• Blending: Combining parts of two words/phrases creates a new word (blend).
• Common blended word examples: brunch, camcorder, emoticon, frenemy, sportscast, staycation, telegenic, travelogue, and workaholic.
• workaholic workaholic means a person who works hard

Clipped Words

• Clipping: Process that shortens words by removing beginning, middle, or ending parts while retaining meaning.
• Common clipped word examples: abs, photo, gig, intro, hyper, gas, fave, grad, hanky, flu, ad, app, and phone.
• It is possible to use sentence clue to identiy this type of clipped word
• Hyper, clipped from hyperactive, means abnormally or extremely active.
• Sci-fi, clipped from science fiction = a story about imaginative or advanced technology.

Content Area Vocabulary

• These are specific word sets for subjects; can be difficult to understand initially, requiring strategies like context clues or word part study.
• Common Roots and Affixes:
  • Root: "-able" = capable or worthy of, Science Example: invisible, Math Example: divisible
  • Root: "de" = down, from, Science Example: decompose Math Example: decrease
  • Root: "dia" = through, between across, Science Example: detach Math Example: diameter
  • Root: "dict" = to say, Science Example: predict Math Example: contradiction
  • Root: "di-, dys-, dif-" = not, negative Science Example: disperse Math Example difference
  • Root: "equi-" = equal Science Example: disconnect, Math Example: equilibrium
  • Root: "frag, fract" = break Science Example: fracture, Math Example: fragment
  • Root: "graph, gram" = to write Science Example: polygraph, graphite, Math Example: graph, graphic
  • Root: "hyper" = over, above, Science Example: hypersensitive Mathe Example: hyperventilate
  • Root: "log, logo, loc, mal" = word, speak Logic Logic malaria Math Example: logarithm
  • Root: "meta" = beyond change Science Example: metamorphosis Math Example: Metatbilism
  • Root: "meter" = measure Science Example: micrometer Math Example: perimeter metrics
  • Prefix "Multi" - many Science Example :thermometer Math Geometry, Kolmeter
  • Prefix "non" - not Science Example: :nonfat nonmetallic Math :non-collinear, non-coplanarm
  • Prefix "para" -beside Science Example: paramedic Math Example: paralola
  • Prefix "peri" -around Science Example: periscope Math Example: perimeter
  • Prefix "poly" - many Science Example: polymorphous Math Example: polygon
  • Prefix "sect, sec" - cut Science: dissect, Math: intersect
  • Prefix "-tract" - to pull, drag, or draw Science: attract, extract, Match: protract, subtract

Lesson 2: Dictionary and Thesaurus

• Words adapt their meanings to the context of a sentence.

• When identifying word meanings becomes difficult you should use a dictionary and a thesaurus

  • Dictionary is used for meanings of words and for pronunciation information

• dictionary dictionary is reference book containing words in alphabetical order

  • Thesaurus Thesaurus used to find contain synonym of information

• dictionary dictionary it explains meanings of

• thesaurus thesaurus contains synonyms of words

• etymology etymology explains the origin of a word

Grade 5 Unit 2: Verbs

• Verbs indicate actions and time and tone, which is important in both speaking and writing. 2
• Verbs help communication by expressing requests, permission, and instructions.

Lesson 1: Tense and Aspect

• Tense describes when the action happened, while aspect describes how it happened
• Irregular verbs -verbs that change in spelling in past tense
• regular verbs - verb that follows a rule to form to form their past tense form their past tense by adding "d" or "ed"
• base form - the simplest from of a verb without anytging attached to it

Simple Past Tense

• Completed action in the past (recent or distant) which is identified by the marker yesterday, last week/month/year Listen (listen+ed=listener)

Regular Verb in simple past

• Adding “-ed” or “-d” to the verb to form the past regular verb
  • If the verb ens with a cosonant and y, change y to i and add -ed
• Two days ago, I listened to my favorite sonds lister with marker listener*

Irregular

With the base verb of irraguler the from is changed

• I wrote somrthing last Night - write-wrote or Geron went to the pronvince last month gor his location - go then went*

Present Tense - time Markers

Simple the habit of unchanging permant truths. The verbs ends if consonant and why change the Y to I and add es always and every Day///week-month-year

• I to my favourite song every- Annie cleans the room every day.*

Future Tense Tomorrow

Action that well happen or not - placing Will / shall, be for to form Tomorrow later or next week month year, and that will Annie will the room

Perfect Tense - past perfect tense before / after

Past the subject + + verb before

• Before he met , he had liked the woman had + Clean + the room*

• Present perfect tense have started from past will continue and may go to future - has have + past perfect: Have you see that movie before? - Mr. Giron see the province (has /has, has has gone. • Future will be By next week, Giron when do the problem with +1+ to will +gone

Progressive tense - continuous process: Was / Where and the verb

• Past - subject - I am the verb was

Annie what the house all day - they were practice it The competition last

• I to my song at 6:00 - was to help him in the to - practice +practice with*