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What kinds of words does a scientist use? suffixes and explain how they change the words. CCSSRI.4.3 Analyze relationships Assess writing abilities Ask students to independently write sentences with different kinds of punctuation and a paragraph about a person or place with focus and support. Write the paragraph with enough details that another student can infer who or what it is. Write a . Explain a topic you learned this week—support the main idea with examples you learned. CCSSW4.4—plan writing Assess interests and skills: What do you like to write? How do you organize a good paragraph? Write a good paragraph about a person you admire—it could be you. What structure and techniques do you find in this week’s story? What did the writer do to keep you interested? What positive words tell about you? Assess students’ knowledge of vocabulary: subject, verb, adjective, pronoun, prefix, root, suffix, synonym, homonym, antonym—ask them to give examples of each. Identify parts of speech in a passage Underline nouns, circle verbs, list 5 adjectives. What does the writer help you “see” with those adjectives? Make adjective “thesaurus”—a variety of words that describe the same kind of quality What character traits are most important to our classroom community? Example--You can set up a display—choose traits and ask students to illustrate them. cooperative careful