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ELA
January 6-10
Anchor Text: The Extra-Good Sunday, By Beverly Cleary
Genre - Humorous Fiction
Paired Text - Imagine a Recipe
Genre - Informational Text
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Essential Question:
Why are safety rules important?
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Reading Goals
Target Skills - understanding characters, formal and informal language
Target Strategy - infer/predict
Fluency - expression
Phonics
words with -er, -ir, -ur, -or
Jan. 13-17
Anchor Text: Judy Moody Saves the World!
Target Vocabulary: recycle, project, dripping, carton, complicated,global, rubbish, hardly, shade, pollution
Vocabulary Strategy: Context clues
Phonics Skills: Words with air, ear, are
Comprehension Skills: Author's purpose -- use text details to tell why an author writes a book
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/clarify -- as you read, find a way to clear up what doesn't make sense
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January 21-24
The Albertosaurus Mystery
The author's point of view is his or her opinion about a subject. The things an author says and the way he or she says them can help readers determine the author's point of view. Readers are free to agree or disagree with an author's point of view.
Target Strategy: Visualize
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Some authors provide details such as how something looks, feels, sounds, smells, or tastes. Readers can use this text evidence to visualize, or create mental pictures of, what the author describes. Visualizing the details can deepen your understanding of the topic.
January 27-31
A Tree is Growing
Written by: Arthur Dorros
Illustrated by: S.D. Schindler
Genre: Informational Text
Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features
Target Strategy: Question
Essential Question: How can pictures and labels
give you more information?
Big Idea: Our world is an amazing place!
Grammar
Using the Verb Be and Helping Verbs
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Target Vocabulary
passages - narrow paths or channels
spines – sharp, points growths
tropical – having to do with the warm areas of the Earth near the equator
store – to put away for later use
throughout – all the way through
absorb – take in or soak up
dissolve – to seem to disappear when mixed with liquid
clumps – groups or bunches of things, especially plants and dirt
coverings - the outsides of things, usually serving as protection
pollen - tiny yellow grains made by flowering plants
Phonics
Words with /k/ and /kw/
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Spelling
Words with /k/ and /kw/
1. shark
2. check
3. queen
4. circus
5. flake
6. crack
7. second
8. squeeze
9. quart
10. squeak
11. quick
12. coldest
13. Africa
14. Mexico
15. black
16. thank
17. correct
18. question
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February 3-7: Two Bear Cubs (A Play)
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February 10-14: Life on Ice
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February 17-21: Sarah, Plain & Tall
February 24-28: Migration
Target Vocabulary: survival, migrate, plenty, frightening, accidents, solid, chilly, landscape, thunderous, dramatic
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Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes in-, im- (meaning "in")
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Phonics Skills: Spelling changes: -s, -es, -ed, -ing (all patterns); less common plurals
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Comprehension Skills: Compare and contrast -- tell how details or ideas are alike and different
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Comprehension Strategy: Visualize -- as you read, use selection details to picture what is happening
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Written Language:
Using Proper Nouns
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Names for Days, Months, and Holidays:
There are many kinds of proper nouns. Always begin a proper noun with a capital letter. Begin names of days, months, and holidays with a capital letter.
ex. We drove 150 miles on Memorial Day.
From January to March, the birds flew more than 1,000 miles.
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Book Titles:
Begin the first, last, and each important word in a book title with capital letter. Always underline a book title.
ex. We read about turtles migrating in Reptiles on the Road.
- Reptiles and Road are the first and last words of hte title. The words on and the are not important words in the title.
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BrainPop-Nouns -- Works only during school day with name/password. Play the movie on the right and then click to play the quiz when the movie has finished
Spelling:
Changing final y to i
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March 2-6
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Anchor Text: The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison
Genre - Fantasy
Paired Text - Moving the U.S. Mail
Genre - Informational Text
Essential Question: How can people communicate over long distances?
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Reading Goals
Target Skills - sequence of events, formal and informal language
Target Strategy - analyze/evaluate
Fluency - reading rate
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Phonics
suffixes -ful, -y, -ous, -ly, -er
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Language Goals
Spelling - suffixes -ful, -y, -ous, -ly, -er
singer loudly joyful teacher
fighter closely powerful farmer
quickly careful friendly speaker
wonderful truly hopeful safely
listener calmly
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Vocabulary
Strategy - suffixes -er, -est
sincere - honest, truthful
managed - succeeded
loaded - piled
loveliest - most beautiful, most delightful
pleasure -enjoyment
conversations - talks with someone
inspired - caused someone to act, think, or feel a certain way
reunion - a coming together again
currently - as of now
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