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Welcome to Miss Hammill's Web Page The 3rd and 5th grade groups are working in the Language! Program which is a research based literacy intervention program. It is aligned with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study Current unit information for 3rd Grade Unit 3 Concepts:Phoneme-Grapheme correspondences: d, g, v Some phonemes are voiced (voice box is activated) and some are voiceless (voice box is not activated) Knowledge questions require recall of facts. Some signal words are: who, what, when , where, why, and how. The setting of a story describes when and where the story takes place and introduces the main characters. A sentence is a group of words that conveys a complete thought. Current unit information for 5th Grade Unit 15 Concepts A word must have at least one vowel phoneme. Words have syllable parts. The number of vowel sounds in a word always equals the number of syllables in a word. A word has one or more syllables. A closed syllable ends with a consonant phoneme and has a short vowel sound. Analysis questions require breaking down information. Some signal words are: arrange, compare, distinguish. Quotation marks are used to set off direct quotations. Some verbs are not action words: *Forms of be are verbs. Some forms of be are: am, are, is, was, were. *Main verbs or helping verbs: Forms of be can be used as the main verb in a sentence. Forms of be can also me used as a helping verb in a sentence. Examples: am going, are sitting, is pulling, was fixing, were hopping. A verb or verb phrase forms the base predicate. A verb may be the main verb or a helping verb. Correct forms of be are determined by: *Number (singular or plural) *Person (first=speaker; second=person spoken to; third=person spoken about) Singular Plural First Person I am we are Second Person you are you are Third Person he/she/it is they are |