Unit 5-Adventures by Land, Air and Water
*Students will explore what makes an adventure and the surprises that can happen on an expedition.
Fourth Grade Reading Street
Unit 5.1 Smokejumpers
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Words:
Spelling Words:
1. concentrating – paying close attention; focusing the mind
1. reaction
2. dedication – the act of giving time and energy to something
2. prerecorded
3. essential – necessary
3. incorrectly
4. method – a way of doing something
4. incredibly
5. parachute – umbrella-shaped device made of fabric; it allows people to fall slowly after
5. disobedient
dropping out of an airplane
6. disagreeable
6. steer – to guide
7. refreshment
7. underbrush – bushes and small trees growing under large trees
8. unbreakable
8. wind – air that moves
9. declaration
10. retirement
11. misdialed
12. undefined
Amazing Words:
13. unhappily
1. generator
5. deserted
8. hurricane watch
14. watchfully
2. dangerous
6. fire escape
9. medical
15. gleefully
3. first aid
7. ignite
10. wildfires
16. sportsmanship
4. gear
17. repayment
18. questionable
19. displacement
20. midshipman
Spelling:
Comprehension Skill:
21. multicultural
Multi-syllabic Words
Author’s Purpose
22. universally
23. understatement
Grammar:
Comprehension Strategy:
24. outlandish
Adjectives and Articles
Important Ideas
25. inflammable
Vocabulary Strategy:
Homographs
Dictionary/Glossary
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Unit 5.2 Lost City
Fourth Grade Reading Street
Genre: Biography
Vocabulary Words:
1. curiosity – an eager desire to know or learn
2. glorious – magnificent; splendid
3. granite – a very hard gray or pink rock that is formed when lava cools slowly
underground
4. ruins – what is left after a building, wall, etc., has fallen to pieces
5. terraced – formed into a flat, level land with steep sides; terraces are often made in
hilly areas to create more space for farming
6. thickets – bushes or small trees growing close together
7. torrent – a violent, rushing stream of water
Amazing Words:
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region
highland
culture
records
5. cultivate
6. gigantic
7. legend
8. adobe
9. century
10. research
Spelling:
Double Consonants
Comprehension Skill:
Compare and Contrast
Grammar:
Adverbs
Comprehension Strategy:
Visualize
Vocabulary Strategy:
Word Structure
Greek and Latin Roots
Spelling Words:
1. tomorrow
2. borrow
3. different
4. rabbit
5. matter
6. written
7. bottle
8. ridden
9. odd
10. bubble
11. offer
12. suffer
13. slippers
14. grasshopper
15. worry
16. current
17. lettuce
18. saddle
19. shudder
20. hobby
21. Mississippi
22. recess
23. impossible
24. antennas
25. allowance
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Fourth Grade Reading Street
Genre: Biography
Unit 5.3 Cliff Hanger
Vocabulary Words:
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coil – to wind around and around, forming a pile
descent – the act of moving down from a higher to a lower place
foresaw - saw or knew beforehand
rappel – to lower yourself down the face of a cliff by means of rope fastened to the
top of the cliff and placed around your body, so that the rope can be gradually
lengthened
ridge – the long, narrow upper part of something
shaft – a long, narrow, usually vertical hole
trekked – traveled slowly by any means
void – an empty space
Amazing Words:
1.
2.
3.
4.
extraordinary
valiant
protect
flood
5. decency
6. admirable
7. secure
Spelling:
Greek Word Parts
Grammar:
Comparative and Superlative
Adjectives and Adverbs
Vocabulary Strategy:
Context Clues
Unfamiliar Words
8. courage
9. individual
10. generous
Comprehension Skill:
Literary Elements:
Character, Plot, and Theme
Comprehension Strategy:
Story Structure
Spelling Words:
1. telephone
2. biography
3. telescope
4. photograph
5. microwave
6. diameter
7. barometer
8. microscope
9. headphones
10. microphone
11. autograph
12. microchip
13. telegraph
14. perimeter
15. paragraph
16. phonics
17. symphony
18. saxophone
19. periscope
20. megaphone
21. stethoscope
22. xylophone
23. cacophony
24. microorganism
25. microbe
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Fourth Grade Reading Street
Unit 5.4 Antarctic Journal
Genre: Journal
Vocabulary Words:
1. anticipation – act of anticipating; looking forward to; expectation
2. continent – one of the seven great masses of land on Earth. The continents are
North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica.
3. convergence – act or process of meeting at a point
4. depart – to go away; leave
5. forbidding – causing fear or dislike; looking dangerous or unpleasant
6. heaves – rises; rises and falls alternatively
7. icebergs – large masses of ice detached from glaciers and floating in the sea.
About 90 percent of an iceberg’s mass is below the surface of the water.
Amazing Words:
1.
2.
3.
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frigid
supply
durable
rugged
5. survived
6. obstacle
7. venture
8. wily
9. conquer
10. confident
Spelling:
Latin Roots
Comprehension Skill:
Main Idea and Details
Grammar:
Time-Order Words
Comprehension Strategy:
Text Structure
Vocabulary Strategy:
Word Structure:
Greek & Latin Prefixes
Spelling Words:
1. dictionary
2. abrupt
3. predict
4. import
5. locally
6. verdict
7. locate
8. portable
9. transport
10. bankrupt
11. dictate
12. location
13. erupt
14. passport
15. export
16. contradict
17. rupture
18. interrupt
19. disrupt
20. dislocate
21. vindictive
22. portfolio
23. jurisdiction
24. corruption
25. interruption
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Unit 5.5 Moonwalk
Fourth Grade Reading Street
Genre: Science Fiction
Vocabulary Words:
1. loomed – appeared dimly or vaguely as a large, threatening shape
2. rille – a long, narrow valley on the surface of the moon
3. runt – animal, person, or plant that is smaller than the usual size. If used about a
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person, runt is sometimes considered offensive.
staggered – became unsteady; wavered
summoning – stirring to action; rousing
taunted – jeered at; mocked; reproached
trench – any ditch; deep furrow
trudged – walked wearily or with effort
Amazing Words:
1.
2.
3.
4.
crater
launch
dusty
geologists
5. astronomers
6. telescopes
7. spacesuit
8. probes
9. spacewalk
10. gravity
Spelling:
Related Words
Comprehension Skill:
Draw Conclusions
Grammar:
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Comprehension Strategy:
Monitor and Clarify
Vocabulary Strategy:
Context Clues
Synonyms
Spelling Words:
1. please
2. pleasant
3. breath
4. breathe
5. image
6. imagine
7. product
8. production
9. heal
10. health
11. triple
12. triplet
13. relate
14. relative
15. meter
16. metric
17. compose
18. composition
19. crumb
20. crumble
21. origin
22. original
23. academy
24. academic
25. inspire
26. inspiration
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