Unit 1

Unit 1, week 2; Getting to Know Us:

*Essential Question: What is it like where you live?

*Vocabulary: city, country, bored, feast, scurried

*High Frequency Words: down, out, up, very, are, have

*Phonics sound: short i

*Reading Strategy: Key Details, Visualize

*Grammar Skill & Mechanics: Word order and Periods

Unit 1, week 3; Getting to Know Us:

*Essential Question: What makes a pet special?

*Vocabulary: care, train, groom, companion, popular

*High Frequency Words: be, come, good, pull, look, play

*Phonics sound: l- blends, -s (plural nouns)

*Reading Strategy: Key Details, Visualize

*Grammar Skill & Mechanics: Statements and Periods

Unit 1, week 4; Getting to Know Us:

*Essential Question: What do friends do together?

*Vocabulary: cooperate, relationship, deliver, chore, collect

*High Frequency Words: fun, make, they, too, see, you

*Phonics sound: short o

*Reading Strategy: Key Details, Ask and Answer Questions

*Grammar Skill & Mechanics: Questions and Exclamations and their marks

Unit 1, week 5; Getting to Know Us:

*Essential Question: How does your body move?

*Vocabulary: physical, exercise, agree, exhausted, difficult

*High Frequency Words: jump, move, run, two, was, has

*Phonics sound: r-blends, s-blends

*Reading Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions, Key details

*Grammar Skill & Mechanics: Questions and Exclamations