Unit 5

Unit 5 Week 2

What can you see in the sky?

Vocabulary: observe, vast, thoughtful, certain, remained

HFW: another, climb, full, great, poor, through

Phonics:r-controlled vowels er, ir, ur, or

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Make and Confirm Predictions

Plot: Cause and Effect

Grammar Skill:

Adjectives

Capitalization and End Marks

Unit 5 Week 3

What inventions do you know about?

Vocabulary: curious, improve, complicated, imagine, device

HFW: began, better, guess, learn, right, sure

Phonics:r-controlled vowels or, ore, oar

abbreviations

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Ask and Answer Questions

Connections Within Text: Problem and Solution

Grammar Skill:

Adjectives that Compare (-er and –est)

Capitalize Days, Months, and Holidays

Unit 5 Week 4

What sounds can you hear? How are they made?

Vocabulary: volume, senses, squeaky, nervous, distract

HFW: color, early, instead, nothing, oh, thought

Phonics:Diphthongs ou, ow

Comparative inflectional endings –er, -est

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Ask and Answer Questions

Plot: Problem and Solution

Grammar Skill:

Using a, an, and the

Capitalize/Underline Book Titles

Unit 5 Week 5

How do things get built?

Vocabulary:structure, project, contented, intend, marvelous

HFW: above, build, fall, knew, money, toward

Phonics:Diphthongs oi, oy

Final stable syllables

Reading Strategies and Skills:

Ask and Answer Questions

Plot: Cause and Effect

Grammar Skill:

Prepositions/Prepositional Phrases

Name Titles (capitals and periods with Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr.)