Main Body
What’s Your Message?
Learning Goals
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Use the suffixes -less, -tion, -al, and -ful to understand the meaning of words
- Discuss and respond to the digital story Go Around
- Analyze characters
- Use compound sentences
- Use semi-colons in compound sentences
- Write a narrative paragraph about a story from your childhood
Get Ready to Read
- Think back to stories you heard as a child. Share a story from your childhood that had a lesson.
What was the experience? What did you learn?
Vocabulary
Scan What’s Your Message to find a bold word for each of the following.
1. An event that is not planned and causes harm
2. An understanding of something, or the message of something
3. Someone who puts energy into something
4. Something used to treat pain or illness
5. The people who watch, read, or listen to something
6. Think carefully about something
7. Full of meaning, importance, and value
8. Eagerly using an opportunity
9. Identified an illness in someone
10. Looking at something closely to learn about it
Word Patterns
–less is a suffix that means “without.”
–tion is a suffix that means “the act of.”
–al is a suffix that means “related to.”
–ful is a suffix that means “full of.”
Use the vocabulary words and affixes above to build a word for each definition below.
11. ___________________________: full of insight
12. ___________________________: the act of examining
13. ___________________________: the act of reflecting
14. ___________________________: related to medicine
15. ___________________________: to have no meaning
Reading Strategy
Readers check their understanding of a text while they read. One strategy is to stop a few times in the text to ask yourself: Can I answer any of the five W questions: who, what, where, when, or why? If you are able to answer at least three of these questions, then you are thinking about what you are reading.
Try this strategy as you read What’s Your Message?
Check Your Understanding
1. According to the text, what kinds of stories do we tend to remember best?
2. What are two purposes of storytelling mentioned in the text?
3. What two things caused Cathy to feel afraid to speak up and use her voice?
4. How does Go Around show who Cathy is, and why she is who she is?
Writing Task
Think about the seed of a story you selected in the last chapter. How does this story show who you are? How does this story show why you are who you are?
Compound Sentences
In this book, you are learning to write simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences. Using a variety of sentence types can make your writing more interesting. A variety of sentences can also help your writing flow more smoothly.
Grammar Rule
A compound sentence is made by joining two complete sentences using a comma and one of these joining words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, or so. To remember these joining words, think of the word FANBOYS.
| For | Use to explain | I will not ride my bike today, for it is raining. |