Lesson 5 Student Skills to be Learned
Story Read: Stormalong
Comprehension Skills: Understanding characters;
infer/predict
character traits – what a character is like.
relationships – ways characters act and feel
toward each other
infer – to figure out something that is not stated
directly
When reading, it is important to look for details
in the text that help you understand the
personality of the main character. You will use a
character’s feelings, actions and relationships to
infer the character’s traits.
Grammar:
Common and Proper Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns
& Irregular Plurals:
A common noun is a person, place or thing. A proper
noun names a specific person, place or thing.
Singular nouns name one person, place or thing, and
plural nouns name more than one person, place or
thing.
Some common nouns do not follow the same rules for
plural nouns, and these are called irregular nouns, i.e.
man/men, goose/geese, knife/knives, etc.
Vocabulary Words:
yearning
memorable
betrayed
condition
seafaring
shortage
tidal
outcast
foaming
horrified
Writing: Fictional Narrative
What is a fictional narrative?
*It is an imaginative story about
characters problem that solve a.
*The beginning introduces the
setting, the characters and the
problem in an interesting way.
*In the middle of the story, plot
events show how the characters
deal with the problem.
*The ending, or climax, shows
how the problem is solved.
Vocabulary Strategies:
Using a dictionary
Decoding Skills:
Homophones: words that sound the same but
are spelled differently
Ex. weather/whether, pane/pain, heel/he’ll,
to/two/too, dear/deer, hours/ours, day/daze,
wait/weight, know/nose, by/buy/bye,
heard/herd, eight/ate, and break/brake
In the dictionary, you will find the word listed
in alphabetical order along with its meaning,
pronunciation and other information.
Sometimes, the etymology of the word will
be shown, and then you will know the origin
of the word. The most common meaning of
the word is listed first, but words often have
more than one meaning.