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FAMILY CONNECTION
FAMILY CONNECTION
READING/COMPREHENSION/
READING/COMPREHENSION/
FLUENCY
FLUENCY
Main Selection: Penguin Chick
Essential Question: How do you know which facts are important?
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details
The topic is what a selection is about. Main Ideas are the most important ideas about the topic. Supporting details give more information about each main idea. Main ideas and details tell more about the topic.
Target Strategy: Infer and Predict
Thinking carefully about the details in the selection can help readers infer, or figure out the main idea.
Fluency: Accuracy: Phrasing-Natural Pauses
When good readers read aloud, they group the words into chunks called phrases. Good readers pause naturally at the end of those chunks.
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HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS
HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS
across, behind, house, how, move, nothing, one, out, took, voice
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PHONICS/SPELLING
PHONICS/SPELLING
Phonics: Words with er
Spelling Words:
Basic:
father, over, under, herd, water, verb
paper, cracker, offer, cover, germ, master
Review:
fern, over
Challenge:
remember, feather
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VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
Target Vocabulary:
finally: after a long time
otherwise: if things were different
junior: younger or having a lower rank
waterproof: something that doesn’t allow water through it
slippery: difficult to hold on to
webbed: having skin between the toes
steer: to control the direction in which something is going
whistle: a high musical sound
Target Strategy: Dictionary Entry
A dictionary entry includes an entry word, one or more definitions of the word, and sometimes an example sentence or a picture; all dictionary entries are arranged in ABC order.
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GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR
Grammar Focus: What Is an Adjective?
Some words tell more about other words. These words are called adjectives. Some adjectives tell more about how someone looks. Some adjectives tell more about how something tastes or smells. Some adjectives tell more about how something feels or sounds.
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The Adjective and Adverb Trail
LESSON 22
LESSON 22
READING/COMPREHENSION/FLUENCY
READING/COMPREHENSION/FLUENCY
Main Selection: Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend
Essential Question: What can you learn from a character's words and actions?
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Readers can use what a character says, thinks, and does to figure out the character's traits and feelings.
Target Strategy: Question
Readers can better understand characters by asking questions about their behavior.
Fluency: Accuracy: Accuracy-Self Correct
When good readers read aloud, they think about their reading. If a word doesn't make sense, they stop and try to clarify the confusion.
High-Frequency Words
High-Frequency Words
boy, does, everyone, field, floor, found, into, their, toward, what's
High-Frequency Speed PowerPoint
PHONICS/SPELLING
PHONICS/SPELLING
Phonics: Homophones
Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
Spelling Words:
Basic:
meet, meat, week, weak, mane, main
tail, tale, be, bee, too, two
Review:
see, sea
Challenge:
threw, through
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VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
Target Vocabulary:
knot: a knot is made by passing one end of a string or rope through a loop and pulling it tight
copy: to do or make something exactly like another thing
planning: deciding what you want to do before you actually do it
lonely: to feel sad to be alone
heavily: weighs a lot
seriously: you are sincere and not joking
answered: to reply to a question
guessed: to form an idea without knowing all the facts
Target Strategy: Idioms
An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of the words that make it up or by its literal meaning.
ex: The test was a piece of cake.
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GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR
Grammar Focus: Using Adjectives
- Use a before a noun that starts with a consonant sound. Use an before a noun that starts with a vowel sound. You can also use the to point out a particular noun or pronoun.
- When an adjective compares two things, it ends with -er. When an adjective compares more than two things, it ends in -est.
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