Written by: Joan Plummer Russell
Photos by: Kris Turner Sinnenberg
Genre: Informational text
Target Skill: Author’s Purpose – use text details to tell why an author writes a book
Target Strategy: Summarize – tell the important parts of the text in your own words
Essential Question: Why do authors write different kinds of texts?
Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow.Grammar
Pronouns-Verb Agreement
-A pronoun stands for a noun.
-Singualar pronouns (ex. he, she, or it), except I,
go with verbs that end in -s or -es
-Remember a verbs in a consonant and -y, the y
changes to an i before the -es is added.
-Plural pronouns (ex. we or like) go with verbs that do not
end in -s or -es.