Unit 4 Week by Week
Week 1 "Pelican Was Hungry"
Skills List
Theme: Birds
Genre: Informational Story
Strategy and Skill: Making Inferences using clues from the story and what you already know.
Phonics: long /o/ o_e
Grammar: Use past tense verbs Was and Were.
Literary Element: Repetition
Theme: Birds
Genre: Informational Story
Strategy and Skill: Making Inferences using clues from the story and what you already know.
Phonics: long /o/ o_e
Grammar: Use past tense verbs Was and Were.
Literary Element: Repetition
Spellingjoke
nose note woke hose vote string splash any every |
Oral Vocabularysparkled
floated group vivid soar |
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Week 2 "June Robot Cleans Up"
Skills List
Theme: Recycling
Genre: Fantasy
Strategy and Skill: Plot Development Draw Conclusions based on text evidence
Phonics: Long /u/ u_e words
Grammar: Use Present Tense Verbs Have and Has
Text Feature: Reading a floor plan
Theme: Recycling
Genre: Fantasy
Strategy and Skill: Plot Development Draw Conclusions based on text evidence
Phonics: Long /u/ u_e words
Grammar: Use Present Tense Verbs Have and Has
Text Feature: Reading a floor plan
Spellinguse
tune cute June flute mule woke nose |
Oral Vocabularycreation
inspire resourceful |
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Week 3 "Stormy Weather"
Skills List
Theme: What's the Weather?
Genre: Nonfiction Informational Text
Strategy: Monitor Comprehension by rereading
Skill: Compare and Contrast
Phonics: long /a/ -ay, -ai
Grammar: Present and Past Tense of go and do: goes, went, do, does, did.
Text Feature:
Theme: What's the Weather?
Genre: Nonfiction Informational Text
Strategy: Monitor Comprehension by rereading
Skill: Compare and Contrast
Phonics: long /a/ -ay, -ai
Grammar: Present and Past Tense of go and do: goes, went, do, does, did.
Text Feature:
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Week 4 "Meet Ben Franklin"
Skills List
Theme: What Scientist Do?
Genre: Biography
Strategy: When we summarize a book, we pick out only the most important information and tell it in our own words. Good readers use this strategy to make sure they understand what they read and to help them remember the information.
Skill: Making Inferences- Good readers use what they already know about a subject to learn more than just the information the writer states in the book. Adding what you know to what you read is called making inferences. This will help you get more out of what you read.
Phonics: long /e/ ; -ee, -ea, -e
Grammar: Past and Present Tense; See and Saw
Text Feature:
Theme: What Scientist Do?
Genre: Biography
Strategy: When we summarize a book, we pick out only the most important information and tell it in our own words. Good readers use this strategy to make sure they understand what they read and to help them remember the information.
Skill: Making Inferences- Good readers use what they already know about a subject to learn more than just the information the writer states in the book. Adding what you know to what you read is called making inferences. This will help you get more out of what you read.
Phonics: long /e/ ; -ee, -ea, -e
Grammar: Past and Present Tense; See and Saw
Text Feature:
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Week 5 "Little Rabbit"
Skills List
Theme:
Genre: Fable (fiction)
Strategy and Skill:
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Theme:
Genre: Fable (fiction)
Strategy and Skill:
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