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Letters Home
from Yosemite
Compiled by:
Terry Sams PES
Written and Illustrated by:
Lisa Halvorsen
Visit the Author
Terry Sams PES
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Summary
Yosemite National
Park is an amazing
place. In one visit,
you can see giant
trees, towering
mountains, and
interesting wildlife.
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Study Skills�Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
�Comprehension Skill:
Main Idea
�Comprehension Strategy: �Comprehension Strategy:
Graphic Organizers
�Comprehension Review Skill:
Fact and Opinion
�Vocabulary: Suffixes
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Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
� Narrative nonfiction tells the
story of real people, places, or
events. The narrator, or teller of
the story, presents information the story, presents information
in sequence. Notice this
sequence as you read
about Yosemite
National Park.
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Comprehension Strategy –
Graphic Organizers�Using a graphic organizer can help
you to understand what you read.
�Examples of graphic organizers
are webs, charts, and diagrams.
�A sequence chart can help you see
the sequence of an article and
often you can fill these charts in as
you read.
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Comprehension Skill Review –
Fact and Opinion�A fact is a statement that
can be proved true or false.
�Statements of opinion tell �Statements of opinion tell
about a person’s beliefs,
feelings, or way of thinking
that cannot be proved.
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Vocabulary Strategy
Suffixes –ist and -ive�You can use suffixes to help
figure out the meaning of
words. words.
�The suffix –ist can make a word
mean “one who is an expert
in____,” as a biologist, an
expert in biology.
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Vocabulary Strategy
Suffixes –ist and -ive
�The suffix -ive can make a
word mean “’tending or word mean “’tending or
inclined to_____,” as in
active, which means tending
to act.”
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Question of the Week
�How does Yosemite reflect the reflect the unique qualities of the West?
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Review Questions
1. How can you tell this
was written to inform?
2. What is one way Yosemite 2. What is one way Yosemite
is a unique place?
3. What are some impressive
wonders in Yosemite?
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Review Questions
1.What is the “time” setting of
this story?
2.How did the author organize
this story? Why do you think this story? Why do you think
she did that?
3.What attraction did the she
go see right after Glacier
Point?
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Vocabulary- Say It!
glacier
impressive
naturalistnaturalist
preserve
slopes
species
wilderness
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glacier� a great mass of ice moving very slowly down a down a mountain or along a valley
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naturalist�a person who studies living things
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impressive�able to have a strong effect on the mind or feelings
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preserve
�to keep from harm or
change; protect
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species�a set of related living things that share certain characteristic and that can be interbred
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slopes�and that goes up
and down at an
angle
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wilderness�a wild region with
few or no people few or no people
living in it
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earthquake�a shaking or shifting motion of Earth’s surface. It is caused by the sudden by the sudden breaking of masses of rock along a fault.
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eruptions
�acts or processes of bursting or throwing forththrowing forth
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volcano
�opening in Earth’s
crust through which crust through which
steam, ashes, and
lava are forced out
in periods of activity
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altitudes
�heights about
Earth’s surface
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reservoir�a place where
water is collected water is collected
and stored for
use
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Denali Nation
Park in Alaska has
more than 6 more than 6
million miles of
wilderness.
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Denali Nation Park
in Alaska has more
than 6 million miles than 6 million miles
of wilderness.
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More than 650
species of flowering
plants live in plants live in
Denali!.
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More than 650
species of flowering
plants live in plants live in
Denali!.
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The park was
established to
preserve the land preserve the land
and the plants
and animals.
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The park was
established to
preserve the land preserve the land
and the plants
and animals.
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That’s what the
naturalist on the
guided tour told guided tour told
us about this
park.
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That’s what the
naturalist on the
guided tour told guided tour told
us about this
park.
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We skied up the
lower slopes of
Mt. McKinley.Mt. McKinley.
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We skied up the
lower slopes of
Mt. McKinley.Mt. McKinley.
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We could see a
giant glacier
looking like a huge looking like a huge
field of ice.
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We could see a
giant glacierlooking like a huge looking like a huge
field of ice.
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The glacier was a
very impressive sight.
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The glacier was a
very impressive sight.
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The sequoia tree is
the largest species of
tree in the world.
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The sequoia tree is
the largest speciesof tree in the world.
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There is less oxygen
as you go up in
altitude.
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There is less oxygen
as you go up in
altitude.
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The river provides
water to San
Francisco by way Francisco by way
of a reservoir.
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The river provides
water to San
Francisco by way Francisco by way
of a reservoir.
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The rock formations
were beautiful in the
sunlight.
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The rock formationswere beautiful in the
sunlight.
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Spelling Words
Long u Sounds
�cruise
�juice
scooter
�smooth
�mood
flute�scooter
�afternoon
�threw
�flute
�huge
�usual
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Spelling Words
Long u sounds
�curfew
�duty
humor
�pupil
�excuse
cruel�humor
�confuse
�groove
�cruel
�bruise
�truth
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CHALLENGE
�influence
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�nutrition�nutrition
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