Unit 4

Unit 4 Week 1

How do animals’ bodies help them?

feature, appearance, determined, predicament, relief

Use a Dictionary

HFW: about, animal, carry, eight, give, our

Phonics: Long a: a, ai, ay

Alphabetical order (two letters)

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Ask & answer questions

Plot: Sequence

Grammar Skill:

Was and Were

Apostrophe with Contractions

Unit 4 Week 2

How do animals help each other?

behavior, beneficial, dominant, instinct, endangered

Context Clues: Sentence Clues

HFW: because, blue, into, or, other, small

Phonics: Long e:e, ee, ea, ie

Prefixes re-, un-, pre-

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Ask and Answer Questions

Main Idea and Key Details

Grammar Skill:

Has and Have

Capitalization and End Punctuations

Unit 4 Week 3

How do animals survive in nature?

survive, provide, wilderness, communicate, superior

Word Categories

HFW: find, food, more, over, start, warm

Phonics: Long o: o, oa, ow, oe

open syllable

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Ask and Answer Questions

Main Idea and Key Details

Grammar Skill:

Go and Do

Capitalize Proper Nouns

Unit 4 Week 4

What insects do you know about? How are they alike and different?

flutter, different, resemble(s), protect(s), imitate

Context Clues: Sentence Clues

HFW: caught, flew, know, laugh, listen, were

Phonics:Long i: i, y, igh, ie

Inflectional endings (change y to i)

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Visualize

Point of View

Grammar Skill:

See and Saw

Underline Titles of Books

Unit 4 Week 5

How do people work with animals?

career, soothe, remarkable, advice, trust

Root Words

HFW: found, hard, near, woman, would, write

Phonics:Long e: y, ey

Compound words

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Visualize

Connections With in Text: Sequence

Grammar Skill:

Adverbs that Tell When

Commas in a Series