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A Fine, Fine School
by Sharon Creech
Genre - humorous fiction
Paired Text - One-Room Schoolhouses
Genre - informational text
Essential Question:
How is learning at school different from learning at home?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - story structure, analyze illustrations
Target Strategy - summarize
Fluency - accuracy
Phonics
short vowel sounds a, e, i, o, u
words with the VCCV pattern
Skill Links
Identify Realistic Story Elements
Language Goals
Spelling - short vowels
crop plan thing smell shut
sticky spent lunch pumpkin clock gift
class skip swing next hug
hospital fantastic
Vocabulary
Strategy - context clues
principal - the head of a school
soared - to rise or fly high in the air
strolled - to walk in a slow, relaxed way
worried - uneasy; anxious
proud - feeling pleased and satisfied over something owned, made, or done
announced - to officially make known
fine - excellent; of high quality
certainly - surely; without a doubt
Skill Links
Grammar
simple sentences
Skill Links
Assorted Subjects and Predicates
Schoolhouse Rock - Sub and Pred
Writing
Focus Trait - word choice
Writing Type - Narrative (descriptive paragraph)
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