Focus on Genre

Newspaper Article A newspaper article tells about a recent event. A news article is nonfiction. Quotations in the article show what a person says. This article tells about the Special Olympics.

Focus on Words

Words with Hard and Soft c and g and Silent Consonants When you read and come to a word you don’t know, blend the sounds together to read it. You just learned about words with the letters c and g. You also learned about words with these silent consonant spellings:

High Frequency Words Say these words as whole words when you read.