1. Founders of the Children’s Rain Forest Unit 1: Cooperation and Competition By: Katrina Feickert Charles Mack Elementary, EGUSD

2. Word Knowledge hot cold more less cheap expensive What do these words have in common? Can you think of any other antonyms for these words?

3. Word Knowledge oxygen explained expected expression What do these words have in common? /ks/ sound spelled x. Note that this sound is always preceded by a short vowel.

4. Word Knowledge twitching watch latch itch What do these words have in common? These words contain the /ch/ sound spelled tch. Can you think of other words?

5. Word Knowledge minute pasture rabbit jungle tropical What do these words have in common? Review of the short /a/, /o/, /i/, and /u/.

6. Word Knowledge: Sentence The swimmer expected to need more oxygen under water. Identify the words with the /ks/ sound. expected and oxygen

7. Word Knowledge: Sentence The fire was hot, but the air was cold. Identify the antonyms in this sentence. Come up with additional antonym pairs and use them in the sentence. Scorching and freezing

8. Word Knowledge: Sentence I watched the twitching tail of my cat. Identify words with the /ch/ sound spelled tch. Watched and twitched

9. Word Knowledge: Sentence Some scientists study in a tropical setting, like a jungle in South America. What words contain the short /o/ and /u/ sound? study, tropical, and jungle

10. Analogies Analogies are used to compare the relationships between two words. hot : cold :: go : stop –Hot is to cold as go is to stop In this case hot and cold have the same relationship as go and stop, both sets of words are antonyms. More : a lot :: rabbit : _____ bunny

11. Syllabication expensiv e oxygen explained expected tropical minute pasture twitching jungle rabbit