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ELA5R3 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing. The student
a. Reads a variety of texts and incorporates new words into oral and written language.
b. Determines the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues (e.g., definition, example).
c. Determines the meaning of unfamiliar words using knowledge of common roots, suffixes, and prefixes.
d. Determines pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choices, and parts of speech of words using dictionaries and thesauruses.
e. Identifies the meaning of common prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, dis-).
f. Identifies the meaning of common idioms and figurative phrases.
g. Identifies playful uses of language (e.g., puns, jokes, palindromes).
h. Recognizes and uses words with multiple meanings (e.g., sentence, school, hard) and determines which meaning is intended from the context of the sentence.
i. Identifies and applies the meaning of the terms antonym, synonym, and homophone.
Usually when you think about fossils you think about dinosaurs or plants, but that's not all. Sometimes ants or other insects get caught in resin (a sticky substance that oozes from pine trees ) and freeze making a fossil out of the frozen insect. If you've seen Jurassic Park the creator used the blood from fossilized mosquitoes to copy the dinosaurs. I hope that doesn't happen!
When a dinosaur died the remains rotted away over the years but the bones are trapped in soil, dirt, and other items like that. Millions of years later archeologists (people that dig fossils for a living) dig out the bones and either keep them or give them to museums for free or a low price.
Fossils are almost everywhere. They might be under your feet millions of miles under you! If you found one you could take it home and keep it as a souvenir or give it to a museum.
Click Here for More Information about dinosaur fossils
| Type | Information | Interesting Facts |
| Ammonite fossils | Found on the ocean bottom. | Nautiluses are close relatives to them. |
| Trilobite fossils | Also found on the ocean bottom. | Lobsters are distant relatives to them. |
| Mesosaur fossils | Lived in freshwater lakes and ponds. | Adult mesosaurs measured to about 2 feet long. |
| Ichthyosaurus fossils | A large dinosaur that lived in the ocean. | Mary Anning found the first fossil of the Ichthyosaur. |
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