Treasurers
“Investigations”
This Week’s Theme: Slithery Snakes
When you hear the word snake, what do you think of?
What are some facts that you know about snakes?
Our Stories Include:
“Snakebite”
“Poisonous Snakes”
“Rattlers!”
“How Poison Came into the World”
“Tracing the Food Web”
Strategy: Summarize
A summary is a statement of the most important ideas in a passage or text. You can summarize by
restating the main ideas in a text in your own words. Summarizing can help a person understand
what they have read because it requires them to restate what the passage is about.
Skill: Main Idea and Details
The main idea is the most important point an author makes about a topic. To find the main idea, you
must first ask yourself what the sentences in a passage or text have in common, tell about, or
describe. They you can decide how the details are connected by classifying the details. Determining
the main idea is important because identifying the main idea helps a person to more easily
summarize a passage and understand what the reading selection is mostly about.
Vocabulary:
Species: a group of living things that share similarities
Survive: is to remain alive or continue to exist
Alert: is to be watchful and ready to respond
Vibrates: is when something moves back and forth quickly
Surroundings: are the conditions and objects around something or someone
Prey: is an animal caught and killed by another animal for food
Predators: are animals that kill and feed on other animals
Lunging: is making a sudden forward movement
Spelling:
rattlers
fangs
countries
liberties
potatoes
rodeos
taxes
reptiles
surroundings
beliefs
difficulties
batches
abilities
lashes
identities
losses
possibilities
notches
zeroes
eddies
brought
counter
coil
mangoes
sinews