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Word Workout Dear Family Member:

Reading about people with interesting careers helps
WORDS TO KNOW me imagine different careers I might like as an adult. This
hovering clockwise formations severed week we’re reading about Robert D. Ballard, a researcher
who went with his team to the depths of the ocean to
edgy interior intact wreckage explore the remains of the Titanic.
Around We Go Can we create sentences that link In Exploring the Titanic, Ballard tells
two of the above words in the order in which they are what happened in his own words.

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shown? Much of the information is factual.
However, one of the great things
SPELLING WORDS about reading someone’s
story is that you also
vocalize storage criticize advantage learn about his or her

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wreckage explosive modernize organize opinions.

attractive specialize recognize positive This Week’s Skills

creative percentage sympathize passage Comprehension: fact and opinion
negative realize emphasize secretive Vocabulary: suffixes
All’s Well That Ends Well I’ll give you one of the Spelling/Phonics: words with -ive, -age, and -ize
spelling words. Give me a word with the same ending. It
can be one of the words above or any other word with
the same ending. You can give me the words a second
time around.

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Face the Facts
Can you separate which statements are facts and which are
opinions? All the facts are true.

Let’s write F next to every fact and O next to every

opinion. Then we can count to see whether there
are more facts or opinions.

The luxurious interiors The Titanic struck an

of the Titanic were iceberg and sank on its
breathtakingly first voyage in 1912.
beautiful.
The best version Photographs of the
The R.M.S. Titanic In 1985, Robert D.
of the film sunken ship are
was built in 1911. Ballard and his team
was the 1997 magnificent but a little
discovered the remains
blockbuster frightening, too.
Out of 2,223 passengers, of the Titanic.
starring Leonardo
only 706 survived. DiCaprio.
When you look at There are facts.
The word The sinking of the these photographs, There are opinions.
titanic means Titanic was the you can’t help but
“huge.” greatest tragedy feel sad for the
in the history of people who died.
navigation. Answers: (There are 5 facts and 5 opinions)

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 Conexión con el hogar

Ejercicio de palabras Queridos familiares:

Leer acerca de personas que tienen carreras
PALABRAS DE VOCABULARIO interesantes me ayuda a imaginar diversas profesiones
hovering clockwise formations severed que podré gustarme como un adulto. Esta semana
estamos leyendo sobre Robert D. Ballard, un
edgy interior intact wreckage investigador que fue con su equipo hasta
las profundidades del océano para
De a dos ¿Podremos crear oraciones que tengan dos de
explorar los restos del Titanic.
las palabras de arriba en el mismo orden en el que están

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en la lista? En Exploring the Titanic, Ballard
cuenta lo que pasó en sus
propias palabras. Gran
PALABRAS DE ORTOGRAFÍA parte de la información
vocalize storage criticize advantage está basada en hechos.

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Sin embargo, una de
wreckage explosive modernize organize las ventajas de leer un
attractive specialize recognize positive relato hecho por alguien es que
también lees sus opiniones.
creative percentage sympathize passage
negative realize emphasize secretive Destrezas de la semana
Comprensión: hecho y opinión
Un mismo final Te daré una de las palabras de la lista.
Dime una palabra que tenga la misma terminación. Vocabulario: sufijos
Puede ser una de las palabras de arriba o cualquier otra Ortografía/Fonética: palabras con -ive, -age, -ize
palabra con la misma terminación. Repitamos el juego.
Esta vez las terminaciones me las darás tú.

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Frente a los hechos
¿Puedes separar los enunciados que son hechos y los que son
opiniones? Todos los hechos son verdaderos.
Let’s write F next to every fact and O next to every
opinion. Then we can count to see whether there
are more facts or opinions.

The luxurious interiors The Titanic struck an

of the Titanic were iceberg and sank on its
breathtakingly first voyage, in 1912.
beautiful.

In 1985, Robert D. The best version of

The R.M.S. Titanic Many people at
Ballard and his team the film was the 1997
was built in 1911. the time believed
discovered the remains blockbuster starring
that the Titanic
of the Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio.
Out of 2,223 passengers, was “virtually
only 706 survived. unsinkable.”
When you look at these Photographs of the
The word The sinking of the photographs, you can’t sunken ship are
titanic means Titanic was the help but feel sad for the magnificent but a little
“huge.” greatest tragedy people who died. frightening, too.
in the history of
navigation. There are facts.
There are opinions.

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