Spelling Words: root, crew, spoon, bloom, grew, room, you, stew, boost, scoop, flew, threw, crook, shook, stood, cookbook, schoolbook, jewel

Benchmarks for Module 8 Week 1: 

• R.2.1 - text features

Questions to ask to check for comprehension:

• How do the headings in this text help you get information about the topic _____________?

• Explain what a table is in your own words.

• Based on text features, what do you think the book will be about?

• How would the book have been different if the author had not included text features?

Spelling Words: cow, house, town, shout, down, mouse, found, loud, brown, ground, pound, flower, grew, spoon, boost, threw, towel, pounce

Benchmarks for Module 8 Week 2: 

• R.3.2 - Retelling

• R.3.1 - Figurative Language

Questions to ask to check for comprehension:

• Two-Part Question: 

  • Part A:  What happens in this text? 

  • Part B:  Which text features along with sentences help you determine this? 

• Can you explain why __________ happened in the story? 

• Write a summary of the text including the beginning, middle, and end. 

• How can you use the words and sentences around an unknown word to figure out what the simile, idiom, or alliteration __________ means? 

• What does the phrase _____ mean in the text? What type of figurative language is this?

Spelling Words: tall, saw, jaw, draw, call, fall, soft, paw, ball, yawn, fog, small, ground, flower, town, loud, wallpaper, awful

Benchmarks for Module 8 Week 3: 

• R.1.1 - Story Structure

Questions to ask to check for comprehension:

• Two-Part Question 

  • Part A:  What has the main character learned by the end of the story? 

  • Part B:  What important events from the entire story caused him/her to learn this? 

• How would the story be different if it had taken place at a different location or at a different time? 

• How would you summarize the events? The character?